Steele v. Preble’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
4 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2015
4 district · 15 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 Glacier Mountain Silver Mining Co. v. Willis · Bagley v. Bloch · Allen v. Dunlap · Glacier Mountain Silver Min Co v. Willis · Oliver v. Burg
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * `The purpose of posting a notice and marking the boundary lines is to inform and guide others who may wish to make locations in that vicinity. But one who has knowledge of the boundaries of a mining claim cannot complain of the absence of stakes, monuments, etc., which are intended to identify the boundary lines. * * * Likewise, he cannot complain because of a defect in the posted notice. * * * Accordingly, a mere defect in the lines or notices could avail the defendants nothing.' * * *"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"* * * One of the rules is stated in 2 Lindley on Mines, Section 381 where the author says: `In the initiation of rights upon public mineral lands, as well as in the various steps taken by the miner to perfect his location, his proceedings are to be regarded with indulgence, and the notices required invariably receive at the hands of the courts a liberal construction.' * * *"”
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.