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United States v. Acres of Land More or Less Situate in Towns of Truro and Wellfleet County of Barnstable Commonwealth of Massachusetts W’s Empirical Analysis

1981

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
May 2024
most recently cited

1 federal appellate ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 2024

1 federal appellate ·

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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 Olson v. United States · Johnson v. Stevenson · United States v. Merz · United States v. Commodities Trading Corp. · United States v. 56454 Acres of Land More or Less Monroe and Pike Counties Pennsylvania

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “a basis for comparison and [did] not become the principal support for the award.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “would impose a degree of order and certainty in these proceedings.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “path ... through the maze of conflicting evidence”
    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.