Duguid v. Best’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[I] t is not improper for state courts to make ... a determination . . . [which] affects only the possessory interests of the litigants and has no effect upon the paramount title of the government [United States of America].”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. v. Anderson · 5 Ariz. App. 28 - Bowen v. Chemi-Cote Perlite Corporation

2. “Except as otherwise provided, all valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States, both surveyed and unsurveyed, shall be free and open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they are found to occupation and purchase, by citizens of the United States and those who have declared their intention to become such, under regulations prescribed by law, and according to the local customs or rules of miners in the several mining districts, so far as the same are applicable and not inconsistent with the laws of the United States.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Davis v. Nelson

3. “No possessory action between persons, in any court of the United States, for the recovery of any mining title, or for damages to any such title, shall be affected by the fact that the paramount title to the land in which such mines lie is in the United States; but each case shall be adjudged by the law of possession. [20]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. v. Anderson