United States v. Coleman’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
222 federal appellate · 80 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 457 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Andrus v. Charlestone Stone Products Co. (1978), Andrus v. Shell Oil Co. (1980)
222 federal appellate · 80 district · 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 30 U.S.C. § 161 · 30 U.S.C. § 22 · 30 U.S.C. § 29 · 30 U.S.C. § 601 · 30 U.S.C. § 611
Relies on Best v. Humboldt Placer Mining Co. · Cameron v. United States · In re Ruffalo · Fortnightly Corp. v. United Artists Television, Inc.
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 457 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Where minerals have been found and the evidence is of such a character that a person of ordinary prudence would be justified in the further expenditure of his labor and means, with a reasonable prospect of success, in developing a valuable mine, the requirements of the statute have been met.'”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . . profitability is an important consideration in applying the prudent-man test . . .”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“test and an appropriate way to identify, with greater precision and objectivity, the factors relevant to a determination that a mineral deposit is”
6 later decisions 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.