Gemmell v. Swain’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 1983
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 Hauswirth v. Butcher · Upton v. Larkin · Harley v. Montana Ore Purchasing 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A notice of location (for such these notices purported to be) posted upon mineral land before discovery is made is an absolute nullity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ponton v. House
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.