trust patent
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 271 U.S. 467 - United States v. Ramsey · 1926Most cited · 167 citing opinions
a certificate, called a trust patent, by the terms of which the government holds the land for a period of years in trust for the allottee with an agreement to convey at the end of the trust period
How often courts cite the case defining “trust patent”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “trust patent” — 167 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.