Hall v. Kearny’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 1985
2 district · 9 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Did the work where done tend to the development of the Randolph and Roscoe claims and was it in fact performed for the benefit of these locations, are the controlling questions to be determined, and it is immaterial whether the improvement is upon patented or unpatented property, except as this may throw light upon the intention of the parties in doing the work.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hain v. Mattes
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.