Dunham & Shortt v. Kirkpatrick’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Missouri Pac. Rd., Thompson, Trustee v. Strohacker (1941), Barker v. Campbell-Ratcliff Land Co. (1917)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 34 state decisions — followed in 11 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * It is true that petroleum is a mineral; no discussion is needed to prove this fact. But salt and other waters, impregnated or combined with mineral substances, are minerals; so are rocks, clays and sand; anything dug from mines or quarries; in fine, all inorganic substances are classed under the general name or [sic], minerals: [Citing cases.]””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in popular estimation petroleum is not regarded as a mineral substance”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.