Mayfield’s Empirical Analysis
141 U.S. 107 · 1891
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 13 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2004 · most notably Johnson v. Zerbst (1938), Ex Parte: Edward T Young (1908)
42 federal appellate · 13 district · 33 state decisions — followed in 14 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 United States v. Kagama · Ex parte Virginia · Ex Parte Nielsen · 'The Ku-Klux Cases' Yarbrough · Kan-Gi-Shun-Ca
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“crimes committed by one Indian against the person or property of another Indian,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that except as to crimes the punishment of which is expressly provided for in this Title, the general laws of the United States as to the punishment of crimes committed in any place within the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, except the District of Columbia, shall extend to the Indian country.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the judicial tribunals of the Indian Nations, shall retain exclusive jurisdiction in all civil and criminal cases arising in the country in which members of the Nation, by nativity or by adoption, shall be the only parties /”
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.