Bean v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
159 F. 651 · 1908
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1950
8 federal appellate · 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Murray v. Tingley · Wells v. Mantes · Rickey Land & Cattle Co. v. Miller · Morris v. Bean · Howell v. Johnson
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is also urged that complainant’s appropriation was invalid, because at the date of the initiation of his claim the headwaters of Sage creek were within the limits of the Orow Reservation in the state of Montana; that the complainant's appropriation confesTcd no right upon him as against the Indians of that reservation; and that appellants have succeeded to all rights of such Indians by their settlement upon the lands then occupied by such Indians. We think a complete answer to this contention is found in the opinion of the learned judge presiding in the Circuit Court, in which he said: ‘When the right of the Indians was extinguished, and the land was thrown open to settlement, it became public.’ ””
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.