United States v. Candelaria’s Empirical Analysis
271 U.S. 432 · 1926
Citation profile
171 federal appellate · 60 district · 82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 439 later decisions (57 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2023 · most notably United States v. Mitchell (1983), Williams v. Lee (1959)
171 federal appellate · 60 district · 82 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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
reviewedJames v. Germania Iron Co. (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Heckman v. United States · Lone Wolf v. Ethan a Hitchcock · Alaska Pacific Fisheries v. United States · United States v. Felipe Sandoval · United States v. Moser
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 439 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a body of Indians of the same or a similar race, united in a community under one leadership or government, and inhabiting a particular though sometimes ill-defined territory.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“be alienated in any wise without (the Government's) consent . . .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““That no purchase, grant, lease, or other conveyance of lands, or of any title or claim thereto, from any Indian nation or tribe of Indians, shall be of any validity in law or equity, unless the same be made by treaty or convention entered into pursuant to the constitution. * * *»”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.