State v. Tracy’s Empirical Analysis

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10 state decisions

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

1. ““ * * * A mining claim to be valid must be filed upon public land open and subject to entry at the time the location is made. * * * Belk v. Meagher, 104 U.S. 279 , 26 L.Ed. 735 ; McKenzie v. Moore, 20 Ariz. 1 , 176 P. 568 . Lindley on Mines, 3rd edition, §§ 183, 184, et seq., makes it clear that a valid claim to mineral land could not be initiated on an Indian Reservation as ‘The lands embraced therein are no longer public lands’.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. White v. Ames Mining Company

2. ““The documentary evidence in the record —affidavits of performance of annual labor and a notice of intention to hold mining claim—is incomplete and does not present even prima facie proof of ‘possession and working of the claims’ for a full five-year period * * *." 76 Ariz. at 12 , 257 P.2d at 863 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 5 Ariz. App. 484 - Birchfield v. Thiercof

3. ““ * * * This school section * * became the property of the State of Arizona * * *. It is evident, and we so hold, that these claims are void and of no effect as the lands were not then subject to location as a part of the public domain of the United States.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. White v. Ames Mining Company