Denman v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 1997
20 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 Hammer v. Garfield Mining & Milling Co. · Reay v. Butler · Weed v. Snook · Carter v. Bacigalupi · Schroder v. Aden Gold 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Furthermore, the question whether the location of a mining claim as designated by boundaries marked on the ground is clearly ascertainable, is properly a question of fact for the trial court. * * * And where, as in the instant case, the evidence relating thereto is conflicting, so, also for the determination of the trial court is the question with respect to the accuracy and sufficiency of the `natural object' * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Masek v. Ostlund
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.