Ideal Basic Industries, Inc. v. Morton’s Empirical Analysis
542 F.2d 1364 · 1976
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably Seldovia Native Ass'n v. Lujan (1990), McCall v. Andrus (1980)
18 federal appellate · 6 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
Relies on McKart v. United States · Brewer v. United States · Knight v. United Land Ass'n · Best v. Humboldt Placer Mining Co. · Witherspoon v. Illinois
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The Secretary] has a continuing jurisdiction with respect to these lands until a patent issues, and he is not estopped by the principles of res judicata or finality of administrative action from correcting or reversing an erroneous decision by his subordinates or predecessors in interest.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The intent of these laws is to reward and encourage the discovery of minerals that are valuable in an economic sense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States”
2 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.