mining claim
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 371 U.S. 334 - Best v. Humboldt Placer Mining Co. · 1963Most cited · 554 citing opinions
A mining claim on public lands is a possessory interest in land that is 'mineral in character' and as respects which discovery 'within the limits of the claim' has been made.
How often courts cite the case defining “mining claim”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “mining claim” — 554 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.