State v. Sanapaw’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1997 · most notably Menominee Tribe of Indians v. United States (1968), Menominee Tribe of Indians v. United States (1967)
6 federal appellate · 10 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 Winters v. United States · United States v. Lineas Winans · Lone Wolf v. Ethan a Hitchcock · Chae Chan Ping v. United States · Thomas v. Gay
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * Construing this ambiguous provision of the 1854 treaty favorably to the Menominees, we determine that they enjoyed the same exclusive hunting rights free from the restrictions of the state’s game laws over the ceded lands, which comprised the Menominee Indian Reservation, as they had enjoyed over the lands ceded to the United States by the 1848 treaty. Ibid.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.