United States v. Cappaert’s Empirical Analysis
508 F.2d 313 · 1974
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2017 · most notably Cappaert v. United States (1976), United States v. Wharton (1975)
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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
Relationships
Relies on Dugan v. Rank · State of Arizona v. State of California · Winters v. United States · United States v. Lineas Winans · United States v. California
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Government . . . and officers who have no authority at all to dispose of Government property cannot by their conduct cause the Government to lose its valuable rights by their acquiescence, laches, or failure to act.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Even if the doctrine of estoppel were available against the government, it could not be applied here because there were no misleading statement or conduct that would give rise to an estoppel between private parties.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(t) he fundamental purpose of the reservation of the Devil's Hole pool was to assure that the pool would not suffer changes from its condition at the time the Proclamation was issued in 1952 . . . .”
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.