Brown v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
2 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 1993
2 district · 20 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 Butte & Superior Copper Co. v. Clark-Montana Realty Co. · Miller v. Chrisman · Chowchilla Farms Inc. v. Martin · Guerin v. American Smelting & Refining Co. · Carter v. Bacigalupi
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Good faith confronts any subsequent locator who enters upon the actual possession of a senior locator’s land for the purpose of initiating a claim to the same ground, although the senior location be invalid, and when such entry is in bad faith, such intrusion constitutes a naked trespass. (Little Sespe Consolidated Oil Co. v. Bacigalupi, 167 Cal. 381 [ 139 P. 802 ]; Talmadge v. St. John, 129 Cal. 430, 436 [ 62 P. 79 ]; Butte & Superior Copper Co. v. Clark-Montana Realty Co., 249 U.S. 12 [ 39 S.Ct. 231 , 63 L.Ed. 447, 458 ].)””
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.