Culver v. Uthe’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 state decisions

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

1. ““Under an act of congress which authorized it to be done, Uthe, by directing his land warrant to be located upon this land and delivering up the warrant, and by the proceedings of the land office upon that location, which resulted in issuing a patent to him for the land, had acquired an equitable title to the land, or what may be called a vested interest in it, prior to the passage of the swamp land act by congress. He had done what by the act of congress of 1817 ( 9 Stat. 123 ), entitled him to the land on which his warrant was located. Ho had delivered up the land warrant, — -the evidence of his claim against the government. He had received in exchange for it the certificate of the receiver and register of the land office, and these entitled him lo a patent after such delay as was necessary to ascertain the fact that the land had been granted to no one else, and that all his proceedings wore regular, which facts were to bo determined by the commissioner of the general land office, and which were determined in his favor. He had paid for this land. He had paid hy the delivering np and cancellation of his land warrant. He had received the certificate of the register and receiver of the land office at Chicago, which, hy the laws of nearly all the Western states,, have been made equivalent to the title to the land in actions of ejectment, though tlie strict legal title remained in the Untied States at the date of the passage of the swamp land act. Are we to suppose that congress”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Olive Land & Development Co. v. Olmstead