Sully v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions

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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““That all persons wlio are in whole or in part of Indian blood, or 'descent, who are entitled to an allotment of land under any law of Congress, or who claim to be so entitled to land under any allotment act, or any grant made by Congress, or who claim to have been unlawfully denied or excluded from any allotment or any parcel of land, to which they claim to be lawfully entitled by virtue of any act of Congress, may commence and prosecute or defend, any action, suit or proceeding in relation to their rights .thereto, in the proper Circuit Court of the United States; and said Circuit Courts are hereby given jurisdiction to try and determine any action, suit or proceeding arising within their respective jurisdictions, involving the right of any person, in whole or in part of Indian blood or descent, to any allotment of land under any law or treaty; and the judgment or decree of any such Court in favor of any claimant to an allotment of land shall have the same effect when properly certified to the Secretary of the Interior, as if such allotment had been allowed and approved by him.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Drapeau v. United States