Swanson v. Babbitt’s Empirical Analysis
3 F.3d 1348 · 1993
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Independence Mining Co. v. Babbitt (1997), United States v. Shumway (1999)
20 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 460A · 30 U.S.C. § 21 · 30 U.S.C. § 29 · 30 U.S.C. § 42
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Gilbert v. First National Bank of Jackson · United States v. Locke · Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe · Starnes 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“enter and explore land in the public domain in search of valuable mineral deposits.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The right to a patent accrues when the claimant has filed a proper patent application and has paid his fee, regardless of when the Department of the Interior fulfills its purely administerial [sic] function of issuing the patent---- For a patent right to vest upon application, however, the patent application must have been valid under existing law and the delay in the patent issuance must have been attributed to mere administerial [sic] delay in processing the otherwise valid application.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“118 Cong.Rec. 1256 (1972). The IBLA's interpretation and application of the SNRA is not inconsistent with Congress's clear direction in the language of the Act: no patents can be issued after August 22, 1972, regardless of when the mining claims were actually made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Swanson v. Babbitt
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.