Acton v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
401 F.2d 896 · 1968
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably Federal Lands Legal Consortium v. United States (1999), 50 Cal. 3d 189 - Hubbard v. Brown (1990)
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2011 (Atomic Energy Act of 1954) · 42 U.S.C. § 2221 · 43 U.S.C. § 315
Relies on United States v. Miller · United States v. General Motors Corp. · United States ex rel. Tennessee Valley Authority v. Powelson · United States v. Chandler-Dunbar Water Power Co. · United States v. Petty Motor Co.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is fundamental that when the United States takes private property for public use the Fifth Amendment requires payment of just compensation. This obligation, however, recognizes only vested property rights, and not the tenuous rights of licenses and permits, even though these at times may have value.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a license does not constitute property for which the Government is liable upon condemnation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Shortly after issue, the Commander of the Yuma Test Station, under the provisions of the reservation, terminated the prospecting permits. Thus, the uranium prospecting permits never reached maturity by the Atomic Energy Commission’s issuance of preferential right leases, as normally would have occurred in the absence of such revocation. No compensation has ever been paid appellants.””
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.