Wann v. Ickes’s Empirical Analysis
92 F.2d 215 · 1937
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 1984 · most notably Arkla Exploration Co. v. Texas Oil & Gas Corp. (1984), James W. Haley v. Fred A. Seaton, Secretary of the Interior (1960)
20 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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 30 U.S.C. § 189 · 30 U.S.C. § 221 · 30 U.S.C. § 226
Relies on United States ex rel. McLennan v. Wilbur · Manuel De Cambra v. Hannah Rogers J
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Sec. 13.] That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, and directed, under such necessary and proper rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to grant to any applicant qualified under this Act [sections 181 to 194, 201, 202 to 208, 211 to 214, 221, 223 to 229, 241, 256 and 26Í to 263 of this title], a prospecting permit, which shall give the exclusive right, * * * to prospect fqr oil or gas upon not to exceed two thousand five hundred and sixty acres-of land wherein such deposits belong to the United States and are not within any known geological structure of a producing oil or gas field * * * : Provided, That said application was filed ninety days prior to the effective date of this amendatory Act [August 21, 1935]. * * * Provided further * * * No prospecting permit shall be granted upon any application filed after ninety days prior to the effective date of this amendatory act [August 21, 1935]. * * * Provided further, That any application for any prospecting permit filed after ninety days prior to the effective date of this amendatory Act [August 21, 1935] shall be considered as an application for lease under section 17 [section 226 of this title] hereof * * * 30 U.S.C.A. § 221 . . “[Sec. 17.] All lands subject to disposition under this Act [sections 181 to 194, 201, 202 to 208, 211 to 214, 221, 223 to 229, 241, 256 and 261 to 263 of this title] which are known or believed to contain oil or gas deposits, except as herein otherwise provided, may be leased by the Sec”
3 later decisions 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.