United States v. Brindle’s Empirical Analysis
110 U.S. 688 · 1884
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 10 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1991 · most notably Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip (1977), Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company v. Riverside Mills (1911)
8 federal appellate · 10 district · 14 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. Babbit · James Converse Administrator of Philip Greely Deceased v. The United States · United States v. Babbitt
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“They can by no fair interpretation be held to embrace an employment which has no affinity or connection, either in its character or by law or usage, with the line of his official duty and where the service to be performed is of a different character and'for á different place, and the amount of compensation regulated by law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The cessions to the United States were in trust, to survey, manage and sell the lands and pay the net proceeds to or invest them for the Indians ... under the operation of the treaties, the Indians continued, until sales were made, the beneficial owners of all their country ceded in trust.”
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.