Melluzzo v. Morton’s Empirical Analysis
534 F.2d 860 · 1976
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2013 · most notably Watt v. Western Nuclear, Inc. (1983), McCall v. Andrus (1980)
24 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 United States v. Coleman · Barrows v. Hickel · Verrue v. United States · Clear Gravel Enterprises, Inc. v. Keil
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(whether the deposits were of such a character as to justify a person of ordinary prudence in expending further labor and means with a reasonable prospect of success in developing a valuable mine) as complemented by the”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Melluzzo v. Lujan · Rodgers v. Watt“holding that lack or insubstantiality of sales of material from the claims in question is relevant to the question of marketability. It is not, however, conclusive proof of lack of value. The inference to that effect, when all evidence is considered, can be found to have been overcome by evidence of marketability.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“absorb additional material such as the claimant's and still permit an attractive profit to be realized.”
2 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.