Seaples v. Card’s Empirical Analysis
246 F. 501 · 1915
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1985
1 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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. Winona & St. P. R. · Hemmer v. United States · Beck v. Flournoy Live-Stock & Real-Estate Co. · Frazee v. Spokane County · King v. McAndrews
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This act is by its terms limited to Indian allottees and confers no authority upon the Secretary of the Interior to cancel patents issued under the aet of 1875 or the act of 1884. Why the Secretary of the Interior should be authorized to remove the restriction on alienation in the case of Indian allottees, and not of Indian homesteaders, under the acts of 1875 and 1884,1 do not know, and am not at liberty to inquire. Suffice it to say that Congress has spoken, and has granted the authority in the one ease, but not in the other.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.