Buster v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
135 F. 947 · 1905
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 15 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2020 · most notably Montana v. United States (1981), Washington v. Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indian Reservation (1980)
42 federal appellate · 15 district · 2 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 The Cherokee Nation v. The State of Georgia · In re Neagle · Meriwether v. Garrett · Bates v. Clark · Erwin Morris v. Ethan a Hitchcock
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“authority . . . to prescribe the terms upon which noncitizens may transact business within its borders”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The ultimate conclusion of the whole matter is that purchasers of lots in town sites in towns or cities within the original limits of the Creek Nation, who are in lawful possession of their lots, are still subject to the laws of that nation prescribing permit taxes for the exercise by noncitizens of the privilege of conducting business in those towns, and that the Secretary of the Interior and his subordinates may lawfully enforce those laws by closing the business of those who violate them, and thereby preventing the continuance of that violation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[n]either the United States, nor a state, nor any other sovereignty loses the power to govern the people within its borders by the existence of towns and cities therein endowed with the usual powers of municipalities, nor by the ownership nor occupancy of the land within its territorial jurisdiction by citizens or foreigners. '”
2 later decisions 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.