Alexander Hamilton Life Insurance Company of America 83-3572 83-3600 v. Government of Virgin Islands of United States 83-3572 83-3600’s Empirical Analysis
757 F.2d 534 · 1985
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably United States v. Cross (2002), United States v. Mathis (2001)
9 federal appellate · 4 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 48 U.S.C. § 1701 · 48 U.S.C. § 1705
Relies on Krasnov v. Dinan · Hughes v. State of Washington · David Mark Cummings v. City of Chicago · California State Lands Commission v. United States · Guthrie v. Lady Jane Collieries, Inc.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“accrue to the owner of the adjoining uplands, because this owner should not be deprived of his access to the sea, which is a major factor in the value of his property, by slow and imperceptible acts of nature.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where the reclamation and filling of the adjacent shore or submerged soil was expressly permitted by legislative enactment, pr was authorized by a statute fixing a bulkhead, harbor, or dock line, or similar statute, or by a valid license or permit or by local common law, it has usually been held or recognized that filled land created by a riparian or littoral proprietor belongs to him as part of the upland, at least where the public rights with respect to navigation and commerce are not substantially impaired. íd., pág. 546. Véase United States v. Groen, 72 F. Supp. 713 (1947). Véase, además, Anno: Accretions by Filling or Dredging, 91 A.L.R.2d Sec. 2[b] 857, 867.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]itle to fastlands ... resulting from unauthorized artificial fill remains with the owner of the submerged lands.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 01-1717
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.