Kenny v. Miles’s Empirical Analysis
250 U.S. 58 · 1919
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1953
4 federal appellate · 6 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 Mullen v. United States · Levindale Lead Zinc Mining Company v. Charles Coleman · Skelton v. Dill · Crews v. Burcham · United States v. Chase
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The term'‘restricted lands’ in section 6 of the Act of 1912 means lands the alienation of which is subject to restrictions imposed by Congress to protect the Indians from their own ineompeteney. This is shown by a later sentence in the same section and by various provisions in the Act of 1906. * * * The Act of 1912, in its sixth section, treats the restraints applicable to living allottees as also applicable to such of the heirs of deceased allottees as are members of the tribe, and expressly provides that ‘when the heirs of such deceased allottees have certificates of competency * the restrictions on alienation are hereby removed.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“No approval was given in this instance. In consequence the judgment ordering a partition or sale — it had no other purpose — was inoperative. It could not be executed, and was not binding on any one.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Armstrong v. Letty
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.