Davis v. Shepherd’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 1980
1 federal appellate · 9 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 Del Monte Mining & Milling Co. v. Last Chance Mining & Milling Co. · Mining Company v. Tarbet · Stafford v. King · Wolfley v. Lebanon Mining Co., of New York · Schoolfield v. Brunton
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Before patent the question of whether the Refugee vein carried precious minerals in appreciable quantities might, in an appropriate action, have been a material question of fact, but after patent it cannot be raised collaterally. The government has granted the owner of the Refugee all veins the top or apex of which lie inside of the surface boundary of the claim extended downward vertically, and, after patent, the presumption must be that the vein or veins embraced within the claim are of the character which the law contemplates.” Grand Central Mining Co. v. Mammoth Co., 29 Utah, 490 , 83 Pac. 668 ; Carson City Gold & Silver Mining Co. v. North Star Mining Co., 83 Fed. 658 , 28 C. C. A. 333 .”
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.