Barker v. Mintz’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Skivolocki v. East Ohio Gas Co. (1974), 129 W. Va. 832 - West Virginia - Pittsburgh Coal Co. v. Strong (1947)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 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 Morris & Essex Railroad v. Prudden · Brande v. Grace · Chapin v. Brown · Berkey v. Berwind-White Coal Mining Co. · Erie Railway Co. v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, & the Morris & Essex Railroad Companies
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the question is whether it is necessary or reasonably convenient, taking into consideration the value of the land, the distance to other available land, and all other circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the right to use so much of said land as may be convenient or necessary for the right of way to and from such prospect places or mines.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he use of the land for stables [or] corrals ... might be the only convenient way the mines could be operated.”
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.