Talton v. Mayes’s Empirical Analysis
163 U.S. 376 · 1896
Citation profile
181 federal appellate · 96 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 457 later decisions (32 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez (1978), United States v. Wheeler (1978)
181 federal appellate · 96 district · 47 state decisions — followed in 19 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 Hurtado v. People of the State of California · United States v. Kagama · Samuel Worcester v. The State of Georgia · The Cherokee Nation v. The State of Georgia · Cherokee Nation v. Southern Kan Ry Co
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 457 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the powers of local self government enjoyed”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Fifth Amendment ‘is a limitation only upon the powers of the General Government,’ Tal ton v. Mayes, 163 U.S. 376, 382 [ 16 S.Ct. 986, 988 ( 41 L.Ed. 196 )], and is not directed against the action of individuals.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The case . . . depends upon whether the powers of local government exercised by the Cherokee nation are Federal powers created by and springing from the Constitution of the United States, and hence controlled by the Fifth Amendment to that Constitution, or whether they are local powers not created by the Constitution, although subject to its general provisions and the paramount authority of Congress. The repeated adjudications of this Court have long since answered the former question in the negative. . . . 28 * * * * * 29”
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.