Perrin v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
232 U.S. 478 · 1914
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 17 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 145 later decisions (30 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably United States v. Mazurie (1975), Williams v. Lee (1959)
30 federal appellate · 17 district · 30 state decisions — followed in 17 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 United States v. Kagama · Tiger v. Western Investment Co. · United States v. Felipe Sandoval · United States v. Sam Pelican · Bates v. Clark
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 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The power of Congress to prohibit the introduction of intoxicating liquors into an Indian reservation, wheresoever situate, and to prohibit traffic in such liquors with tribal Indians, whether upon or off a reservation and whether within or without the limits of a State, does not admit of any doubt. It arises in part from the clause in the Constitution investing Congress with authority 'to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes,' and in part from the recognized relation of tribal Indians to the Federal Government.' 232 U.S., at 482(, 34 S.Ct., at 389)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No intoxicating liquors nor other intoxicants shall ever be sold or given away upon aiiy of the lands by this agreement ceded and sold to the United States, nor upon any other lands within or comprising the reservations of the Yankton Sioux or Dakota Indians as described in the treaty between the said Indians and the United States, date April 19th, 1858, and as afterwards surveyed and set off to the said Indians. The penalty for the violation of this provision shall be such as Congress may prescribe in the act ratifying this agreement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The chiefs doubtless saw, from the curtailment of their reservation, and the consequent restriction of the limits of the `Indian country,' that the ceded lands would be used to store liquors for sale to the young men of the tribe; and they well knew, that, if there was no cession, they were already sufficiently protected by the extent of their reservation. Under such circumstances, it was natural that they should be unwilling to sell, until assured that the commercial regulation respecting the introduction of spirituous liquors should remain in force in the ceded country, until otherwise directed by Congress or the President. This stipulation was not only reasonable in itself, but was justly due from a strong government to a weak people it had engaged to protect. . . . Based as it is exclusively on the Federal authority over the subject-matter, there is no disturbance of the principle of state equality.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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