Capron v. Strout’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 1968 · most notably Mining Company v. Cullins (1881), Boatright v. Steinite Radio Corp. (1931)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 21 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
Relationships
Relies on Skyrme v. Occidental Mill & Mining Co. · Soule v. Dawes
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““According to the findings, lie certainly did work in the mine, though not with his hands, and it is clear that the direct tendency of his work was to develop the property. We think the foreman of work in the mine is as fully secured by the law as the miners who work under his direction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.