Riddell v. Monolith Portland Cement Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
61 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1999 · most notably United States v. Henderson Clay Products (1963), Food Machinery & Chemical Corp. v. United States (1965)
61 federal appellate ·
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedRiddell v. Monolith Portland Cement Co. (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 23
Relies on United States v. Cannelton Sewer Pipe Co. · Riddell v. Monolith Portland Cement Co. · Retail Clerks International Ass'n, Local 1625 v. Schermerhorn
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“at the point where the mineral first became suitable for industrial use or consumption.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As used in this paragraph the term `gross income from the property' means the gross income from mining. The term `mining' as used herein shall be considered to include not merely the extraction of the ores or minerals from the ground but also the ordinary treatment processes normally applied by mine owners or operators in order to obtain the commercially marketable mineral product or products, and so much of the transportation * * *. The term `ordinary treatment processes', as used herein, shall include the following: * * * (iii) in the case of * * * minerals which are customarily sold in the form of a crude mineral product — sorting, concentrating, and sintering * * * and loading * * * (iv) in the case of * * * ores which are not customarily sold in the form of the crude mineral product — crushing, grinding * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the words of Cannelton, but also that the record showed that it was actually sold in California in 1952 in an amount exceeding 1,500,000 tons and in the United States exceeding 216,000,000 tons.”
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.