Loney v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
6 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1988
6 district · 10 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 Shepley v. Cowan · Frisbie v. Whitney · Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. Soderberg · Davis v. Wiebbold · Noonan v. Caledonia Gold Min Co
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * The rule is, that a patent to government land transfers to the patentee all veins, lodes, or other minerals, within its boundaries, unless such mineral deposits were known to exist at the time of the issuance of the patent, in which latter case the known mineral deposits do not pass by the patent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“land more valuable for the building sand it contains than for agriculture . . . is mineral within the meaning of the United States mining statutes.”
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.