Varney v. Orinoco Mining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 1958
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 Cooper v. Williamson · Carter v. Elk Coal Co. · Engle v. Bond Foley Lumber Co. · Bryant v. Hamblin · Slone v. Hall
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In this character of case plaintiff, before he can succeed, must establish his title the same as in an ejectment action, in which his success depends upon the strength of his title, and not the weakness of that of his adversary. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nicholson v. Shear
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.