Stewart Mining Co. v. Ontario Mining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
237 U.S. 350 · 1915
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1984 · most notably Butte & Superior Copper Co. v. Clark-Montana Realty Co. (1919), United States ex rel. United States Borax Co. v. Ickes (1938)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 12 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 Iron Silver Min Co v. Cheesman · Iron Silver Min Co v. Elgin Min Smelting Co · Stewart Mining Co. v. Ontario Mining Co. · Mammoth Mining Company v. Grand Central Mining Company
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"An apex is, on cited authority, defined to be 'all that portion of the terminal edge of a vein from which the vein has extension downward in the direction of the dip.’ And it is further said that the definition has been approved in Lindley on Mines, because, as therein expressed, °it 'involves the elements of terminal edge, and downward course therefrom.’ We may accept the definition. In its application, however, it immediately encounters a question of fact — the locality of the terminal edge; and in this case the state courts did not find it to be where plaintiff asserted it to be. ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is rudimentary that extralateral rights to a vein depend upon the position of its top or apex.””
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.