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4 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 16 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Brown v. Hitchcock.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brown v. Hitchcock Anchor | green | “under the swamp-land act, the legal title passes only on delivery of the patent.” | 4 |
| 2 | United States v. O'DONNELL | green | “invested the state in praesenti with an inchoate title to those lands falling within the description of the act, to be perfected as of the date of the act when the land should be identified and the patent issued.” | 4 |
| 3 | State v. Jacobs | green | “the gradual, imperceptible addition to land forming the banks of a stream by the deposit of waterborne solids or by the gradual recession of water which exposes previously submerged terrain.” | 4 |
| 4 | Michigan Land & Lumber Co. v. Rust | green | “wherever the granting act specifically provides for the issue of a patent as does the swamp act, then the rule is that the legal title remains in the government until the issue of the patent.” | 4 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment: for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.