Hickel v. Oil Shale Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 32 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2009 · most notably United States v. Locke (1985), Andrus v. Shell Oil Co. (1980)
15 federal appellate · 32 district · 6 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
reviewedUdall v. Oil Shale Corp. (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 30 U.S.C. § 193 · 30 U.S.C. § 22 · 30 U.S.C. § 241 · 30 U.S.C. § 26 · 30 U.S.C. § 28 · 43 U.S.C. § 291 · 43 U.S.C. § 315
Relies on Donnelly v. United States · Wilbur v. United States ex rel. Krushnic · Union Oil Co of California v. Smith · Ickes v. VirGinia-Colorado Development Corp.
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“might be the equivalent of abandonment....”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“: 6 [U]pon a failure to comply with these conditions, the claim or mine upon which such failure occurred shall be open to relocation in the same manner as if no location of the same had ever been made, provided that the original locators, their heirs, assigns, or legal representatives, have not resumed work upon the claim after failure and before such location. 7 Id.; see also Cliffs Synfuel, 291 F.3d at 1253. 8 With the passage of the Mineral Leasing Act in 1920, Congress”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the 1920 Act makes the United States the beneficiary of all claims invalid for lack of assessment work or otherwise.”
4 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.