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withdrawal

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 188 U.S. 108 - Nelson v. Northern Pacific Railway Co. · 1903Most cited · 109 citing opinions

and order issued by the President, Secretary of the Interior, Commissioner of the General Land Office, or other proper officer, whereby public lands are withheld from sale and entry under the general land laws, in order that presently or ultimately they may be applied to some designated public use, or disposed of in some special way.

How often courts cite the cases defining “withdrawal”

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Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “withdrawal” — 165 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.

All 2 definitions, chronological · 1903–2013

  1. affirmative acts inconsistent with the goals of the conspiracy" that "were communicated to the defendant's coconspirators in a manner reasonably calculated to reach those coconspirators." "Withdrawal," the court instructed, "must be unequivocal." Ibid.