Sisson v. Sommers’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 1975
2 federal appellate · 8 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 Erhardt Boaro · Sheriff, Washoe County v. Marcus · Oreamuno v. Uncle Sam Gold & Silver Mining Co.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To enable a party to maintain a right to a mining claim after the right is acquired, it is necessary that the party continue substantially to comply not only with the laws of Congress, but with the valid laws of the state, and valid rules established by the miners, in force in the district where the claim is situated upon which such right depends. Failure to comply with such laws and rules works a forfeiture, whether the laws and rules provide for forfeiture for noncompliance or not, and the mining claim becomes subject to location by any qualified locator.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.