Wadsworth v. Boysen’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 1 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““These statements of the author of the act in advocating its adoption cannot. of course, control its construction, where there is doubl as 1o its meaning; but they show the condition of mining property on ihe public lands of the United States, and the tenure by which it was held by miners in the absence of legislation on the subject, and thus serve to indicate the probable intention of Congress in the passage of the act.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Roberts v. Southern Pac. Co.