Mulkern v. Hammitt’s Empirical Analysis
326 F.2d 896 · 1964
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2022
11 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 Adams 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The `location' of a mineral claim upon the public lands of the United States is, in effect, a unilateral act by the locator. It indicates that, in his opinion, there are minerals upon the land which are susceptible of profitable exploitation. That opinion may, of course, be, upon examination by less optimistic persons, regarded as ill-founded. If it is, the Government must have the right to clear the title and the right to the possession of its land from a useless and annoying incumbrance. The proceeding here under review was instituted by the Government because, it contended, the land in question did not contain minerals susceptible to profitable exploitation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[E]ven though the mining claim there in litigation would, at one time, have satisfied the test, nevertheless the Government rightfully denied a patent to the claimant since, because of changed economic conditions, the claim did not presently satisfy the test.” Mulkern 326 F.2d at 898 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because of the failure . . . [of the appellant] to exhaust his administrative remedy, we do not consider or decide the question concerning the mineral waters.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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