Charles Dehault Delassus v. The United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““* * * The United States seems never to have claimed any part of what could be shown by legal evidence and local law to have been severed from the royal domain before their right attached, whether the severance was by patent, concession, warrant, order of survey, or any other act which might have been perfected into a complete title, by the laws, Usages, and customs of Spain. * * * ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Playa De Flor Land & Improvement Co. v. United States

2. ““A grant or concession made by that officer, who is by law authorized to make it, ■ carries with it vrima facie evidence that it is within his power. No excess pf them, or departure from them, is to be presumed. He violates his duty by'such' excess, and is responsible for it. He who alleges that an officer entrusted with an important duty has violated his instructions must show it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Coe

3. ““No principle is better settled in this country than that an inchoate title to lands is property.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Crochet v. McCamant