Spalding v. Chandler’s Empirical Analysis
160 U.S. 394 · 1896
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 17 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 147 later decisions (29 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2008 · most notably Oneida Indian Nation of New York State v. County of Oneida New York (1974), Donnelly v. United States (1913)
40 federal appellate · 17 district · 15 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 Missouri Ry Co v. Roberts · United States v. Carpenter
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 147 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"When Indian reservations were created, either by treaty or executive order, the Indians held the land by the same character oí title, to wit, the right to possess and occupy the lands for the uses and purposes designated.” Spalding v. Chandler, 160 U. S. 394 , 403, 16 Sup. Ct. 360 , 364 ( 40 L. Ed. 469 ).”
5 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.