Bleamaster v. Morton’s Empirical Analysis
448 F.2d 1289 · 1971
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2014
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 43 U.S.C. § 141 · 43 U.S.C. § 300 · 43 U.S.C. § 315 · 43 U.S.C. § 315F · 43 U.S.C. § 869 (Recreation and Public Purposes Amendment)
Relies on Shapiro v. Thompson · Willingham v. Morgan · Hopkins v. United States · Jack E. Carl v. Stewart L. Udall, Secretary of the Interior, Nelson A. Gerttula v. Stewart L. Udall, Secretary of the Interior · Finch v. United States
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i] more valuable or suitable for the production of agricultural crops than for the production of native grasses and forage plants, or [ii] more valuable or suitable for any other use than for [grazing], or [iii] proper for acquisition in satisfaction of any outstanding lieu, exchange or script [ sic ] rights or land grant, and to open such lands to entry, selection, or location for disposal in accordance with such classification under applicable public-land laws . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Andrus v. Utah“from settlement, location, sale or entry . . . pending determination of the most useful purpose to which such land may be put. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Andrus v. Utah“until after the same have been classified and opened to entry . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Andrus v. Utah
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.