Bluestone Coal Co. v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2002 · most notably Adkins III, Lowther Oil Co. v. Miller-Sibley Oil Co. (1903)
2 federal appellate · 21 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 Rorer Iron Co. v. Trout · Cowan v. Radford Iron Co. · Lowe v. Trundle · Linhart v. Foreman's Adm'r
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the absence of the coal, the evidence shows there would have been no contract for the timber. This was the foundation on which the timber contract rested, and the foundation having no real existence, the superstructure must fall.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Nothing is more clear than the doctrine that a contract founded in a mutual mistake of the facts constituting the very basis or essence of it will avoid it.”
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.