Noyes v. Mantle’s Empirical Analysis
127 U.S. 348 · 1888
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 12 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2014 · most notably United States v. Midwest Oil Co. (1915), Light v. United States (1911)
8 federal appellate · 12 district · 38 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.
Relationships
Relies on Belk v. Meagher · Reynolds v. Iron Silver Mining Co. · Iron Silver Min Co v. Reynolds · Sullivan v. Iron Silver Mining Co.
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . [T]he courts have held that there is another point of time at which the character of known mineral lands can be fixed so as to prevent the government exercising any effective authority to deprive mining claimants of rights duly initiated and maintained under the mining laws. The United States Supreme Court in Noyes v. Mantle, 127 U. S. 348 [ 32 L.Ed. 168 , 8 Sup.Ct.Rep. 1132, 1135 ], in considering the effect of a patent for a placer claim upon a previously located quartz claim in conflict therewith, said: ‘Where a location of a vein or lode has been made under the law, and its boundaries have been specifically marked on the surface so as to be readily traced, and notice of the location is recorded in the usual books of record within the district, we think it may safely be said that the vein or lode is known to exist, although personal knowledge of the fact may not be possessed by the applicant for a patent of a placer claim. The information which the law requires the locator to give to the public must be deemed sufficient to acquaint the applicant with the existence of the vein or lode. A copy of the patent is not in the record, so we cannot speak positively as to its contents; but it will be presumed to contain reservations of all veins or lodes known to exist pursuant to the statute. At any rate, as already stated, it could not convey property which had already passed to others. A patent of the United States cannot, my more than a deed of an individual, transfer wha”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““They were the discoverers of the claim. They marked its boundaries by stakes so that they could be readily traced. They posted the required notice, which was duly recorded in compliance with the regulations of the district. They had thus done all that was necessary under the law for the acquisition of an exclusive right to the possession and enjoyment of the ground. The claim was thenceforth their property. They needed only a patent of the United States to render their title perfect, and that they could obtain at any time upon proof of what they had done in locating the claim, and of subséquent expenditures to a specified amount in developing it. Until the patent issued the government held the title in trust for the locators or their vendees.” Noyes v. Mantle, 127 U. S. 348 , 8 Sup. Ct. 1132, 32 L. Ed. 168 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A mining claim perfected under the law is property in the highest sense of that term, which may be bought, sold, and conveyed, and will pass by descent.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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