Lakin v. Dolly’s Empirical Analysis
53 F. 333 · 1891
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2018
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 St.louis Smelting and Refining Company v. Kemp. · De La Fayette Wilcox v. John Jackson · Leavenworth Lawrence and Galveston Railroad Company v. United States · Steel v. St Louis Smelting Refining · Grace v. American Central Insurance
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No claim shall extend more than three hundred feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface....”
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.