Wallace v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
143 F. 716 · 1906
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1935
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Ray Jones v. Patrick Meehan · The American Insurance Company v. 356 Bales of Cotton David Canter · Stephens v. Cherokee Nation · Cherokee Nation v. Ethan a Hitchcock · Frisbie v. Whitney
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When it was passed, the Dawes Commission, to whom Congress had delegated the power to distribute the lands of the tribe, had not allotted the land in dispute to the defendant. He had, therefore, acquired no vested right in it as against subsequent legislation of the United States, because, until such an allotment was made, all the proceedings determinative of citizenship and of distribution which derived their force and effect from the legislative power of the United States alone were necessarily subject to the further exercise of that authority.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brann v. Bell““The allotment certificate, when issued, like a patent to land, is dual in it's effect. It is an adjudication of the special tribunal empowered to decide the question that the party to whom it issues is entitled to the land and is a conveyance of the right to this title to the allottee.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Frame v. Bivens
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.