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Supreme Court· 6/30/1980

Andrus v. Utah

Citations

  • 446 U.S. 500
  • 100 S. Ct. 1803
  • 64 L. Ed. 2d 458
  • 1980 U.S. LEXIS 36

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • recognizing that title to sections vested in states upon survey’s approval
  • interpreting Wyoming and Payne in light of the discretionary authority delegated to the Secretary of Interior under 43 U.S.C. 315f
  • discussing section-in-place grants as “random cross section[s] of the public land”
  • land grant in Statehood Act was a “ ‘solemn agreement’ which in some ways may be analogized to a contract between private parties.”

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Judges: Stevens, Brennan, Stewart, White, Marshall, Powell, Burger, Blackmun, Rehnquist

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43 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

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