Bumpus v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
325 F.2d 264 · 1963
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2016 · most notably United States v. Haldeman (1976), Watt v. Western Nuclear, Inc. (1983)
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 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
Relies on Gooch v. United States · Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. Soderberg · Holloway Gravel Co. v. McKowen · KAMO Electric Cooperative, Inc. v. Baker · Highland v. Commonwealth
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Mineral' is a word of general language, and not per se a term of art. . . . It is not capable of a definition of universal application, but is susceptible to limitation or expansion according to the intention with which it is used in the particular . . . statute.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We are of the opinion that the case is peculiarly one for the application of the maxim ejusdem generis. Literally, that phrase means ‘of the same kind or species.’ It is a well known maxim of construction, sometimes called Lord Tenterden’s Rule, to aid in ascertaining the meaning of a statute or other written instrument, and, under the maxim, where an enumeration of specific things is followed by a more general word or phrase, such general word or phrase is held to refer to things of the same kind, of things that fall within the classification of the specific terms.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Since the language of the reservation was written by representatives of the United States, it was incumbent upon the United States, since it chose to take less than the entire estate, to describe the estate to be taken with such exactness and certainty that the land owner would know what was reserved to him.””
2 later decisions 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.