Iron Silver Min Co v. Cheesman’s Empirical Analysis
116 U.S. 529 · 1886
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 6 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1997 · most notably Seaboard Air Line Railway v. Horton (1914), State v. Bishop (1997)
31 federal appellate · 6 district · 52 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Indianapolis and St Louis Railroad Company v. Horst · Continental Improvement Company v. Stead · Lessee of George Clymer et al. v. George Dawkins et al. · Carroll v. Alston
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are of opinion, therefore, that the term as used in the acts of Congress is applicable to any zone or belt of mineralized rock lying within boundaries clearly separating it from the neighboring rock. It includes, to use the language cited by counsel, all deposits of mineral matter found through a mineralized zone or belt, coming from the same source, impressed with the same forms, and appearing to have been created by the same processes.””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“"A lode or vein is a body of mineral or mineral-bearing rock within well-defined boundaries in 1he general mass of the mountains. In this definition the elements are the body of mineral or mineral-bearing rock and the boundaries. With either of these tilings well established, very slight evidence may be accepted as to the existence of the other. A body of mineral or mineral-boaring rock in the general mass of the mountains, so far as it may continuo unbroken and without interruption, may bo regarded as a lode, whatever the boundaries may bo. In the existence of such body, and to the extent of it, the boundaries are implied. On the other hand, with well-defined boundaries, very slight evidence of ore within such boundaries will prove the existence of a lode. Such boundaries constitute a fissure, and if in such fissure ore is found although at considerable intervals, and in small quantities, it is called a lode or vein.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is obvious that the vein, lode, or ledge of which the locator may have * the exclusive right of possession and enjoyment ’ is one whose apex is found inside of his surface lines, extended vertically, and this right follows such vein, though in extending downward it may depart from a perpendicular, and extend laterally outside of the vertical linos of such surface location.””
3 later decisions 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.