Lange v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
148 F. 799 · 1906
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 1983
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 Chrisman v. Miller · Erhardt Boaro · King v. Amy Silversmith Consolidated Min Co · Book v. Justice Min. Co. · Iron Silver Mining Co. v. Mike & Starr Gold & 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is true that, when the controversy is between two mineral claimants, the rule respecting the sufficiency of a discovery of mineral is more liberal than when it is between a mineral claimant and one seeking to make an agricultural entry, for the reason that where land is sought to be taken out of the category of agricultural lands the evidence of its mineral character should be reasonably clear, while in respect to mineral lands, in a controversy between claimants, the question is simply which is entitled to priority.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Converse v. Udall
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.