United States v. Basic Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate ·

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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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““All citizens of the United States and other persons bona fide residents of the state of Colorado or Nevada or either of the territories of New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Wyoming, Dakota, Idaho, or Montana, and all other mineral districts of the United States, shall be and are hereby authorized and permitted to fell and remove for building, agricultural, mining, or other domestic purposes any timber or other trees growing or being on the public lands, said lands being mineral and not subject to entry under existing laws of the United States except for mineral entry in either of said states, territories, or other districts of which such citizens or persons may be at the time bona fide residents, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe for the protection of the timber and of the undergrowth growing upon said lands and for other purposes: provided, that the provisions of this act are not to extend to railway corporations.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Rossi