Groves v. Terrace Mining Company’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2019
4 federal appellate · 7 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 Carlson v. Lindauer · People v. Silver · Austin v. Huntsville Coal & Mining Co. · Russell v. Texas Co. · Bostic v. Bostic
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The word “mines” is not a definite term, but its meaning must be determined from the circumstances of its use. In a “broad or enlarged sense,” the term “mine” denotes the vein, lode, or deposit of mineral, and is also used to denote the place where, or the parcel of land on which, such mineral vein or deposit is found. In this sense it is a certain part of the soil or of the earth’s surface in which there are mineral deposits and in which a person may obtain not only a full right of ownership of the soil, but a right to remove the minerals therefrom and to dispose of them. 58 CJS Mines and Minerals § 1a; Jones v. Vermont Asbestos Corporation, 108 Vt 79, 182 A 291; Ozark Chemical Co. v. Jones, 10 Cir, 125 F2d 1; People v. Silver, 16 Cal2d 714, 108 P2d 4 . However, in its “primary and restricted meaning” it usually refers to underground excavations and open.workings where minerals or deposits are obtained. 58 CJS Mines and Minerals § 1b; Certain-Teed Products Corporation v. Comly, 54 Wyo 79, 87 P2d 21 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he grant or reservation of the mineral estate, with the implied or expressly stated right to use the surface for the removal and processing of minerals taken from the land did not carry with it the right to use the surface estate for the processing of minerals obtained from other lands.”
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.