Ansolabehere v. Laborde’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2016
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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. § 315
Relies on United States v. Grimaud · McKelvey v. United States · United States v. Gerlach Live Stock Co. · Omaechevarria v. State of Idaho · Bacon v. Walker
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No property right can be acquired by [grazing livestock upon the public domain]. All persons so using the public domain do it merely by sufferance of the federal government or, as it is sometimes designated by the courts, by virtue of an implied license. This use is often alluded to as a right. It is not a right that the government of the United States has conferred, and these public range lands may at any time be withdrawn from such use ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The state [of Nevada] is not asserting any right or title to the public domain under [the 1925 Stockwatering Act]. All that the state seeks to do pursuant to the [Act] is to exercise police regulations over the public domain.... Furthermore any time the federal government ... in any ... manner undertakes to exercise control over [the public domain], the [Act] becomes inoperative in so far as it conflicts with the authority of the federal government.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“govern[] the grazing use of the public lands [it was] superseded and rendered ineffective by the enactment by Congress of what is known as the Taylor Grazing Act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.