United States v. Forness’s Empirical Analysis
125 F.2d 928 · 1942
Citation profile
133 federal appellate · 8 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 243 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2018 · most notably Williams v. Lee (1959), Oneida Indian Nation of New York State v. County of Oneida New York (1974)
133 federal appellate · 8 district · 39 state decisions — followed in 20 states
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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen · In Re Peterson · Samuel Worcester v. The State of Georgia · Swift v. Tyson
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 243 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Let me find the facts for the people of my country, and I care little who lays down the general principles.'”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“That all laws of the State of New York now in force concerning the laying out, altering, discontinuing, and repairing highways and bridges shall be in force within said villages, and may, with the consent of said Seneca Nation in council, extend to, and be in force beyond, said villages in said reservations, or in either of them; and all municipal laws and regulations of said State may extend over and be in force within said villages: Provided, nevertheless, That nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the taxation of any Indian, or the property of any Indian not a citizen of the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“But state law cannot be invoked to limit the rights in lands granted by the United States to the Indians, because, as the court below recognized, state law does not apply to the Indians except so far as the United States has given its consent. 125 F.2d at 932 .”
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.