Marvel v. Merritt’s Empirical Analysis
116 U.S. 11 · 1885
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2018 · most notably Watt v. Western Nuclear, Inc. (1983), Anheuser-Busch Brewing Ass'n v. United States (1908)
14 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
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 United States v. Mooney
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The words used nre not technical, either as haying a special sense by commercial usage, nor as having a scientific meaning different from their popular meaning. They are the words of common speech, and, as such, their interpretation is wiiiiin the judicial knowledge, and therefore matter of law.” Marvel v. Merritt, 116 U. S. 11 , 12, 6 Sup. Ct. 207 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The word mineral is evidently derived from mine, as being that which is usually obtained from a mine; and accordingly Webster defines the latter as “a pit or excavation in the earth from which metallic ores or other mineral substances are taken by digging, distinguished from the pits from which stones only are taken and which are called quarries.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Webster, in his dictionary, defines ... ore asthe compound of a metal and some other substance, as oxygen, sulphur or arsenic, called its mineralizer, by which its properties are disguised or lost.’”
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.