Boesche v. Udall’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
135 federal appellate · 29 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 226 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2018 · most notably Udall v. Tallman (1965), State of Arizona v. State of California (1963)
135 federal appellate · 29 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedBoesche v. Udall (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 30 U.S.C. § 181 (Coal Market Competition Act of 2000) · 30 U.S.C. § 187 · 30 U.S.C. § 188 · 30 U.S.C. § 189 · 30 U.S.C. § 209 · 30 U.S.C. § 226 · 43 U.S.C. § 1201 · 43 U.S.C. § 2 (Bureau of Land Management Drug Enforcement Supplemental Authority Act)
Relies on Boesche v. Udall · Noble v. Union River Logging Railroad · Knight v. United Land Ass'n · Best v. Humboldt Placer Mining Co. · Billings v. Truesdell
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 226 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t would thus be surprising to find in the Act, which was intended to expand, not contract, the Secretary's control over the mineral lands of the United States, a restriction on the Secretary's power to cancel leases issued through administrative error-a power which was then already firmly established.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“defective because it failed to include an adjoining 40-acre tract under application by another party.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“have the power, in a proper case, to correct his own errors.”
3 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.