homestead entry
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 226 U.S. 548 - Bunker Hill Sullivan Mining Concentrating Company v. United States · 1913Most cited · 19 citing opinions
Until some such action by the United States, Messenger's entry segregated the land from the public domain and made it so far private as to withdraw it from the operation of the law permitting other citizens to locate mines or cut timber on public mineral land.
How often courts cite the case defining “homestead entry”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “homestead entry” — 19 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.