Gonzales v. Chino Copper Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 95 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently August 2002 · most notably Delgado v. Phelps Dodge Chino, Inc. (2001), Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Inc. v. Rosenthal (1945)
4 federal appellate · 95 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 Powers v. Hotel Bond Co. · Merrill v. Penasco Lumber Co. · Gherardi v. Connecticut Co. · Day v. Sioux Falls Fruit Co. · Diaz's Case
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Dependency does not necessarily depend upon whether or not the claimants could support themselves without the earnings of the deceased or whether they could have so reduced their living expenses that they could have been supported independent of such earnings.””
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.