Mitchell v. Cline’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 1967 · most notably 125 Cal. App. 2d 154 - Smith v. Smith (1954), Hendricks v. Hendricks (1932)
8 federal appellate · 25 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 Beard v. Beard · Damrell v. Meyer · Huston v. Walker · Snow v. Kimmer
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The policy and object of this law are to limit tbe quantity of placer mineral land which may be located by one person to 20 acres, and, although one person may obtain a patent for more than 20 aeres, he can do so only by representing to the government that he is a purchaser of the excess from one or more bona fide locators, whose locations were made in conformity with the above statutory limitation as to quantity. For this purpose he is required to present with his application for patent an authenticated abstract of his title, showing its derivation from lawful locations.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cook v. Klonos
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.