Borax Consolidated, Ltd. v. Los Angeles’s Empirical Analysis

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105 federal appellate · 33 district · 136 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 414 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'[t]he question as to the extent of this federal grant, that is, as to the limit of the land conveyed, ... is necessarily a federal question.'”

   9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Oregon State Land Board v. Corvallis Sand and Gravel Company Corvallis Sand and Gravel Company · California State Lands Commission v. United States

2. “the average height of all the high waters”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. 119.67 Acres Of Land, More Or Less, Situated In Plaquemines Parish, State Of Louisiana, Etc. · Leslie Salt Co. v. Froehlke

3. “The tideland extends to the high-water mark.... This does not mean, as petitioners contend, a physical mark made upon the ground by the waters; it means the line of high water as determined by the course of the tides. By the civil law, the shore extends as far as the highest waves reach in winter.... But by the common law, the shore “is confined to the flux and reflux of the sea at ordinary tides.” ... It is the land “between ordinary high and low water mark, the land over which the daily tides ebb and flow. When, therefore, the sea, or a bay, is named as a boundary, the line of ordinary high-water mark is always intended where the common law prevails.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 463 F. Supp. 2d 680 - United States v. Marion L. Kincaid Trust · Leslie Salt Co. v. Froehlke