2021 OK CR 6 - SIZEMORE v. STATE’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “I can hardly see where it (the IRA) could operate in a State like mine where the Indians are all scattered out among the whites and they have no reservation , and they could not get them into a community without you would go and buy land and put them on it. Then they would be surrounded very likely with thickly populated white sections with whom they would trade and associate. I just cannot get through my mind how this bill can possibly be made to operate in a State of thickly-settled population. (emphasis added).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. STATE v. LAWHORN · WADKINS v. STATE

2. “we could look forward to building up huge reservations such as we have granted to the Indians in the past.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. STATE v. LAWHORN · WADKINS v. STATE

3. “created out of whole cloth rather than a continuation of the solid precedents the Court has established over the last 100 years or more. ¶3 The question I see presented is should I blindly follow and apply the majority opinion or do I join with Chief Justice Roberts and the dissenters in McGirt and recognize”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. STATE v. LAWHORN