Bostic v. Bostic’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably United States v. Atomic Fuel Coal Co. (1967), Groves v. Terrace Mining Company (1960)
4 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 Stockbridge Iron Co. v. Hudson Iron Co. · President, Managers & Co. of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Co. v. Hughes · Caldwell v. Fulton · Yukon Pocahontas Coal Co. v. Ratliff · Crisman v. Swanson
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * the right to mine and sell coal and other minerals underlying said tracts of land, as well as the right to cut, sell, manufacture or otherwise dispose of timbers on said premises.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the grant of * * * [a] license * * * under which the grantee is entitled to mine the ore, stone, etc., and remove it * * * [gives the grantee] no interest in the land or in any ore save that actually mined.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Patel v. Comm'r
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.