Grayson v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
267 U.S. 352 · 1925
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions (40 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2020 · most notably Steele v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad (1944), Orr v. Orr (1979)
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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 Truax v. Corrigan · Aetna Life Insurance v. Dunken · Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. North Dakota ex rel. McCue · Kansas City Southern Railway Co. v. C. H. Albers Commission Co. · Washington v. Miller
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The lands of the Creek Nation were tribal lands, and the evident purpose of the Indians was to continue at least a semblanee of that status so far as it. could be done consistently with their distribution in severalty. With the wisdom of that purpose we have nothing to do. It is enough that Congress respected it and gave to it the sanction of law.””
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.