Friedline v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2019
16 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 Marvin v. . Brewster Iron Mining Co. · Commonwealth v. Burford · Greek v. Wylie · Webber v. Vogel · Baker v. Pittsburg, Carnegie & Western Railroad
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here a vendor of the surface reserves the coal, with no stipulation as to the mining thereof, he will be entitled to such use of the surface as is necessary to make his reservation effective ... ; but, if he owns adjoining property , through or over which it is practically possible to mine and remove the reserved coal, he will not be entitled to use for that purpose the conveyed surface .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] way of access to property granted or reserved will be implied only when necessary to give effect to the grant or reservation.”
1 later decision 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.