quiet title
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 207 U.S. 1 - Lawson v. United States Mining Co. · 1907Most cited · 169 citing opinions
presumption of subsurface
Title by patent from the United States to a tract of ground, theretofore public, prima facie carries ownership of all beneath the surface, and possession under such patent of the surface is presumptively possession of all beneath the surface.
How often courts cite the case defining “quiet title”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “quiet title” — 169 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.