Griffin v. Coal Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably Kuhn v. Fairmont Coal Co. (1910), 131 W. Va. 88 - Kanawha Banking & Trust Co. v. Gilbert (1947)
4 federal appellate · 32 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 Marvin v. . Brewster Iron Mining Co. · Masterson v. . Townshend · Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co. v. Coffin · Williams v. Gibson · Couch v. Eastham
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) Deeds conveying coal with right of removal should be construed in the same way as other written instruments, and the intention of the parties, as manifest by the language used in the deed itself, should govern. “(2) The vendor of land may sell and convey his coal and grant to the vendee the right to enter upon and under said land, and to mine, .excavate, and remove all of the coal purchased and paid for by him, and, if the removal of the coal necessarily causes the surface to subside or break, the grantor cannot be heard to complain thereof. “(3) Where a deed conveys the coal under a tract of land, together with the right to enter upon and under said land, and to. mine, excavate, and remove all of it, there is no implied reservation in. such an instrument that the grantee must leave enough coal to support the surface in its original position.””
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.