United States v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis
175 F.2d 644 · 1949
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2013 · most notably United States v. 93.970 Acres of Land (1959), United States v. California (1965)
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 Shively v. Bowlby · Philadelphia Co. v. Stimson · John Pollard et al. v. John Hagan et al. · United States v. Oregon · St. Louis v. Rutz
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.
“". . . That loss of land by erosion and its gain by natural accretion do affect the title of owners of fast land is conceded by all [Greenfield v. Powell , 218 Ala. 397 , 118 So. 566 (1928); Philadelphia Co. v. Stimson , 223 U.S. 605 , 32 S.Ct. 304 , 56 L.Ed. 570 (1911); Abbot's Ex'r v. Doe , 5 Ala. 393 (1843)], and that if the lands taken had been added by natural accretion to appellee's fast land, he would have been entitled to it and to be paid for it, there is no doubt. Neither is there any that he may not by artificial filling of submerged land acquire the title from the State. [City of Mobile v. Sullivan Timber Co. , 129 F. 298 (5th Cir. 1904)]"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reid v. STATE, ETC.
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.