Wiggan v. Conolly’s Empirical Analysis
163 U.S. 56 · 1896
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1922
6 federal appellate · 4 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.
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.
““This treaty of 3867 introduced a new limitation upon the inalienability of lands patented to a minor allottee; that Is, the limit of minority. And such limit must be applied to sales voluntary and Involuntary, and cut off the right oí a guardian to dispose of the estate. The fact that the patent to this allottee had already been issued did not abridge the right of the United States to add, with the consent of the tribe, a new' limitation to the power of the individual Indian in respect to alienation. The land and the allottee were both still under the charge and care of the nation and the tribe, and they could agree for still further protection, a protection which no individual was at liberty to challenge."”
2 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.