Davis v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
329 F.2d 840 · 1964
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably United States v. Consolidated Mines & Smelting Co. (1971), Hedley v. United States (1979)
19 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 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 Myers v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. · Aircraft & Diesel Equipment Corp. v. Hirsch · Best v. Humboldt Placer Mining Co. · Cameron v. United States · Cole v. Ralph
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a discovery of valuable mineral is the sine qua non of an entry to initiate vested rights against the United States”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“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 encumbrance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“power and authority to initiate a contest to see 'that valid claims may be recognized, invalid ones eliminated, and the rights of the public preserved.'”
1 later decision 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.