maintained
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 400 U.S. 48 - Hickel v. Oil Shale Corp. · 1970Most cited · 73 citing opinions
mining claim under Leasing Act § 37
token assessment work, or assessment work that does not substantially satisfy the requirements of 30 U.S.C. § 28, is not adequate to 'maintain' the claims within the meaning of § 37 of the Leasing Act. To hold otherwise would help defeat the policy that made the United States, as the prospective recipient of royalties, a beneficiary of these oil shale claims.
How often courts cite the case defining “maintained”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “maintained” — 73 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.