Dickson v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 federal appellate · 1 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““While we therefore fully approve the District Court’s holding that this was not a termination because of an asserted violation and accordingly beyond the power of the District Court to adjudicate, we wish to make doubly clear that nothing said or unsaid is to be understood as an approval or disapproval by us of the propriety of the action of the County Committee, the State Committee, the Secretary, the Landowner or the new Tenants. The right under the law of Texas between Dickson and the Landowner or between him and the successor Tenants with respect to Soil Bank payments received in 1958 and subsequent years are matters for subsequent adjudication in Texas courts. Such matters were not before the District Court nor are they before us.” * # e “. . . The Soil Bank comes into the case only when the private defendants [landowners] as a defense to that claim assert that such Act has some decisive significance. Without intimating the correctness of such views, this might take several different forms. For example, the defendants might contend that since the Soil Bank Act permits payment only to a ‘producer’ and the status of Dickson as such a producer was brought into question after his lease ostensibly ‘expired,’ the matter was committed to the judicially unreviewable decision of the County Committee and the State Committee. ... To determine the correctness of this conclusion, the Court hearing that defense would, of course, have to interpret the Soil Bank Act to determine whethe”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Thomas v. Dudrey

2. “"... A lease is an encumbrance because it affects the title to the land. It binds the realty and follows it into the hands of all purchasers ... A soil bank conservation reserve contract is personal, binding only the parties thereto. It does not bind subsequent owners of the land who do not become parties to the contract. Under the terms and conditions thereof, Part V, 8 (b), ‘loss of control of the farm by sale or otherwise by any signatory to the contract’ terminates the contract as to such producer ... In addition, the United States acquires no interest in the land by virtue of its contract. It cannot demand possession of the land or have free enjoyment of the same. Its only recourse when any signatory fails, or partially fails, to comply with the terms and conditions of the contract is by way of a decrease or forfeiture of payments, termination of the contract and an assessment of a civil penalty in accordance with the provisions of the Soil Bank Act, 7 U. S. C. A. § 1801 et seq. “It is true, as plaintiffs point out, that the owner’s use of the land included in the contract is substantially curtained by government regulations. However, it is questionable whether such regulations constitute an interest in the land which subsists in third persons ‘to the diminution of the value of the land.’ In view of the widespread, voluntary participation in the soil bank program, its objectives and results, it is apparent that the benefits derived by such participation outweigh the detr”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Thomas v. Dudrey

3. ““In brief, the reasoning [of the District Court] was that judicial review is provided only where the Secretary terminates a contract because of a violation of the contract. Consequently, the Court concluded since Dickson did not violate the contract and his rights terminated simply because he was no longer the lessee the statutory basis for review was lacking. The result, so Dickson argues with force, is that this is almost to state that if there is doubt about violation judicial review is available, but if there is no legal reason whatsoever for terminating a contract, it is free of any judicial scrutiny. That, he claims, is a paradox— if not an absurdity- — and surely not contemplated by Congress. Beguiling as is this argument, [cases cited] a consideration of this complex agricultural program demonstrates that Congress intended this result * * (Emphasis added)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Yarbrough