Marlin v. Lewallen’s Empirical Analysis
276 U.S. 58 · 1928
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 6 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2020 · most notably Choctaw Nation v. Oklahoma (1970), Northwestern Bands of Shoshone Indians v. United States (1945)
9 federal appellate · 6 district · 21 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 Choate v. Trapp · Heckman v. United States · Ray Jones v. Patrick Meehan · Stephens v. Cherokee Nation · Cherokee Nation v. Ethan a Hitchcock
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was created and specially authorized to conduct negotiations with each of the tribes looking to the allotment of a part of its lands among its members, to some appropriate disposal of the remaining lands and to further adjustments preparatory to the dissolution of the tribe”); Cherokee Nation v. United States, 270 U.S. 476, 479 , 46 S.Ct. 428 , 70 L.Ed. 694 (1926) (discussing disputes relating to removal); Stephens v. Cherokee Nation, 174 U.S. 445, 483 , 19 S.Ct. 722 , 43 L.Ed. 1041 (1899) (stating that the”
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.