Ewert v. Bluejacket’s Empirical Analysis
259 U.S. 129 · 1922
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 16 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably County of Oneida New York v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York State New York (1985), United States v. Mississippi Valley Generating Co. (1961)
34 federal appellate · 16 district · 13 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedBluejacket v. Ewert (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co. · Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. Boyd · Galliher v. Cadwell · United States v. Germaine · United States v. Noble
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the equitable doctrine of laches . . . cannot properly have application to give vitality to a void deed and to bar the rights of Indian wards in lands subject to statutory restrictions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Ewert] still holds the legal title to the land.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'void and confers no right upon the wrongdoer,'”
2 later decisions 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.