Iron Silver Min Co v. Mike Starr Gold Silver Min Co’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1969 · most notably City of Knoxville v. Knoxville Water Co. (1909), Chrisman v. Miller (1905)
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 21 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 St.louis Smelting and Refining Company v. Kemp. · Deffeback v. Hawke · Colorado Coal & Iron Co. v. United States · United States v. Iron Silver Mining Co. · Iron Silver Min Co v. Cheesman
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a matter well known to persons at all familiar with mining for the precious metals that veins rich in gold and silver are generally found with barren rock within a few feet on each side .of them, and that such veins more frequently than otherwise come abruptly to an end. No one thus familiar would feel justified in concluding, from the mere distance or vicinity of other mines, that’ they had any necessary connection with each other.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cascaden v. Bortolis
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.