Southern Surety Company v. State of Oklahoma’s Empirical Analysis
241 U.S. 582 · 1916
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2006 · most notably Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton (1973), Indian Country, U.S.A., Inc. v. Oklahoma ex rel. Oklahoma Tax Commission (1987)
22 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 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 Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. Wall · Southern Surety Co. v. State
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Prosecutions for all crimes and offenses committed within the Territory of Oklahoma or in the Indian Territory, pending in the district courts of the Territory of Oklahoma or in the United States courts in the Indian Territory upon the admission of such Territories as a State, which, had they been committed within a State, would have been cognizable in the Federal courts, shall be transferred to and be proceeded with in the United States circuit or district court established by this Act for the district in which the offenses were committed, in the same manner and with the same effect as if they had been committed within a State.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““That all causes, proceedings, and matters, civil or criminal, pending in the district courts of Oklahoma Territory, or in the United States courts in the Indian Territory, at the time said Territories become a State, not transferred to the United States circuit or district courts in the State of Oklahoma, shall be proceeded with, held, and determined by the courts of said State, the successors of said district courts of the Territory of Oklahoma, and the United States courts in the Indian Territory.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“an offense against the marriage relation . . . belong(ing) to the class of subjects that each state controls in its own way.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Price
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.