Erwin v. Perego’s Empirical Analysis
93 F. 608 · 1899
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 1993
6 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 Belk v. Meagher · Erhardt Boaro · Gwillim v. Donnellan · Thompson v. Spray · Jupiter Mining Co. v. Bodie Consolidated Mining 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The marking of the boundaries of the claim may precede the discovery, or the discovery may precede the marking; and if both are completed before the rights of others intervene, the earlier act will inure to- the benefit of the locator as-of-the date of the later, and a complete possessory title to the premises will vest in him as of the later date. Jupiter Min. Co. v. Bodie Consol. Min. Co. (C. C.) 11 Rod. 600, 676; 4 Morr. Min. Rep. 411 , 423; North Noonday Min. Co. v. Orient Min. Co. (C. C.) 1 Fed. 522 , 531; Zollars v Evans (C. C.) 5 Fed. 172 , 175; Strepey v. Stark (Colo. Sup.) 5 Pac. 111 , 114; Thompson v. Spray, 72 Cal. 528 , 533, 14 Rac. 182; Erhardt v. Boaro, 113 U. S. 527 , 530, 5 Sup. Ct. 560 , 28 L. Ed. 1113 .””
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.