United States v. Lucero’s Empirical Analysis
1869
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1988
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Holliday · United States v. Juan Percheman · John Taylor Junior v. The United States · John Inglis v. The Trustees of the Sailor's Snug Harbour in the City of New York · The United States v. Archibald a Ritchie
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“.“They [the Spanish adventurers! found the Pueblo Indians, on their advent into New Mexico, a peaceful, quiet, and industrious people, residing in villages for their protection against the wild Indians, and living by the cultivation of the soil.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Provided, that this confirmation shall only be construed as a relinquishment of all title and claim of the United States to any of said lands, and shall not affect any adverse valid rights, should such exist.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.