Wilmington Star Mining Company v. Minnie Fulton’s Empirical Analysis
205 U.S. 60 · 1907
Citation profile
194 federal appellate · 12 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 283 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably Mondou v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (1912), Salem v. United States Lines Company (1962)
194 federal appellate · 12 district · 31 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Sherlock v. Alling · Starin v. Mayor Etc of the City of New York Independent Steam-Boat Co · Gold-Washing and Water Company v. Keyes · Shaw v. Railroad Co. · State ex rel. Markley v. Baldwin
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 283 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And even although the liability imposed upon the mine owners to respond in damages for the willful failure of the mine manager and mine examiner to comply with 'the requirements of the statute was not in harmony with the principles of the common law applicable to the relation of master and servant, it being competent for the state to change and modify those principles in accord with its conceptions of public policy, we cannot infer that the selection of mine owners as a class upon which to impose the liability in question was purely arbitrary and without reason.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“counts of a declaration which have not been supported by any evidence, and where it is impossible from the record to say upon which of the counts of the declaration the verdict was based,”
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.