Creede Cripple Creek Mining Milling Company v. Uinta Tunnel Mining Transportation Company’s Empirical Analysis

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36 federal appellate · 16 district · 36 state decisions

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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “‘The miners of each mining district may make regulations not in conflict with the laws of the United States, or with the laws of the state or territory in which the district is situated, governing the location, manner of recording, amount of work necessary to hold possession of a mining claim, subject to the following requirements: The location must be distinctly marked on the ground so'that its boundaries can be readily traced. All records of mining claims hereafter made shall contain the * * names of the locators, the date of location, and such a description of the daim or claims located by reference to some natural object or permanent monument as will identify the claim. On each claim located after the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. and until a patent has been issued therefor, not less than one hundred dollars’ worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made during each year.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Sutherland v. Purdy · United States v. Sherman

2. “no location of a mining-claim shall be made until the discovery of the vein or lode within the limits of the claim located,”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lowe v. Dickson · Hall v. McKinnon

3. “would be a useless and idle ceremony, which the law does not require.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lowe v. Dickson · Likaits v. Johnson