Teller v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
113 F. 273 · 1901
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2009 · most notably Everett Foster v. Fred A. Seaton, Secretary of the Interior (1959), Peyton v. Desmond (1904)
15 federal appellate · 6 district · 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 · Stone v. United States · Deffeback v. Hawke · Hastings Co v. Whitney · Stark v. Starrs
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While his location so far segregated and withdrew the land from the public domain that no rival claimant could successfully initiate any right to it until his location was avoided and his entry was canceled (James v. Iron Co., 46 C.C.A. 476, 107 Fed. 597, 603, and cases there cited; Hartman v. Warren, 22 C.C.A. 30, 76 Fed. 157, 160; Pacific Ry. Co. v. Dunmeyer, 113 U.S. 629 , 5 S.Ct. 566, 28 L.Ed. 1122), it gave him nothing but 'the right of present and exclusive possession' for the purpose of mining. It did not devest the legal title of the United States, or impair its right to protect the land and its product, by either civil or criminal proceedings, from trespass or waste.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It gave him (the locator) nothing but the right of present and exclusive possession for the purpose of mining. It did not devest the legal title of the United States, or impair, its right to protect the land and -its product, by either civil or criminal proceedings from trespass or waste. * * * The two titles recognized by the United States confer totally different rights. The first one confers a right (and it may properly enough be said to be vested in the locator) to the possession of the land for the purpose of carrying on his mining operations as long as he performs the required conditions.””
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.