Mining Company v. Boggs’s Empirical Analysis
70 U.S. 304 · 1866
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1946
1 federal appellate · 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 The Convoy's Wheat · Farnet v. Towle
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by a license inferred from the general policy of the State or of the United States, in relation to mines of gold and silver and the lands containing them;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dower v. Richards
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.