United States v. West’s Empirical Analysis
232 F.2d 694 · 1956
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2016
5 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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
Applies 25 U.S.C. § 461 · 25 U.S.C. § 476 · 43 U.S.C. § 315
Relies on Yakus v. United States · Utah Power Light Company v. United States No 202 United States · Royal Indemnity Co. v. United States · United States v. Santa Fe Pacific Railroad · Camfield v. United States
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is also beyond question that 'the government has, with respect to its own lands, the rights of an ordinary proprietor, to maintain its possession and to prosecute trespassers.' Camfield v. United States, 1897, 167 U.S. 518 , 524 (17 S.Ct. 864, 42 L.Ed. 260).”
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.