Legal Opinion
Watt v. Western Nuclear, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 6, 1983No. 81-1686PublishedCited by 125 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Marshall
The Stock-Raising Homestead Act of 1916, the last of the great Homestead Acts, provided for the settlement of homesteads on lands the surface of which was “chiefly valuable for grazing and raising forage crops” and “not susceptible of irrigation from any known source of water supply.” 43 U. S. C. § 292. Congress reserved to the United States title to “all the coal and other minerals” in lands patented under the Act. 43 U. S. C. §299. The question presented by this case is *38whether gravel found on lands patented under the Act is a mineral reserved to the United States.
The Stock-Raising…
2Cases cited41 opinions
- Securities & Exchange Commission v. C. M. Joiner Leasing Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Mastro Plastics Corp. v. National Labor Relations BoardSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
- Griffiths v. CommissionerSupreme Court of the United States · 1939
- Helvering v. New York Trust Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1934
- Best v. Humboldt Placer Mining Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1963
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3Cited by125 opinions
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- San Juan County, Utah v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 2007
- Becker v. Mack Trucks, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2002
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