United States v. Biwabik Mining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
247 U.S. 116 · 1918
Citation profile
84 federal appellate · 22 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 183 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1981 · most notably Burnet v. Harmel (1932), Palmer v. Bender (1933)
84 federal appellate · 22 district · 11 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedBiwabik Mining Co. v. United States (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Von Baumbach v. Sargent Land Co. · Stratton's Independence, Ltd. v. Howbert · Stanton v. Baltic Mining Co. · Stratton's Independence, Ltd. v. Howbert
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 183 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in every substantial way pro tanto a purchase”
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.