Doherty v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2001
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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. · Doherty v. Morris
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.
““Labor and improvements, within the meaning of the statute, are deemed to have been had on a mining- claim, whether it consists of one location or several, when the labor is performed or the improvements are made, for its development, — that is, to facilitate the extraction of the metals it may contain. — though in fact such labor and improvements may lie on ground which originally constituted only one of the locations, as in sinking a shaft, or be at a distance from the claim itself, as where the labor is performed for the turning- of a stream, or the introduction of water, or whore the improvement- consists in the construction of a flume to carry off the dt'bris or waste material. It would be absurd to require a shaft to be sunk on each location in a consolidated daim, when one shaft would suffice for all the locations.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.