United States v. Le Bris’s Empirical Analysis
121 U.S. 278 · 1887
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2008 · most notably Fourco Glass Company v. Transmirra Products Corporation (1957), Donnelly v. United States (1913)
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 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 Kan-Gi-Shun-Ca · United States v. Forty-three Gallons of Whiskey · United States v. Forty-Three Gallons of Whisky
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[A]ll that part of the United States west of the Mississippi, and not within the states of Missouri and Louisiana, or the territory of Arkansas, and, also, that part of the United States east of the Mississippi river, and not within any state to which the Indian title has not been extinguished." See 22 CYC 139.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The repeal of this section does not of itself change the meaning of the term it defines when found elsewhere in the original connection. The reenacted sections are to be given the same meaning they had in the original statute unless a contrary intention is plainly manifested.””
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.