Okanogan Methow San Poelis Nespelem Colville and Lake Indian Tribes or Bands of State of Washington v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
279 U.S. 655 · 1929
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 15 district · 115 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 302 later decisions (63 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Baker v. Carr (1962), Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Chadha (1983)
46 federal appellate · 15 district · 115 state decisions — followed in 29 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.
Relationships
Relies on Myers v. United States · Martin Fairfax v. Hunter's · La Abra Silver Mining Company v. United States · Tennessee v. Whitworth
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 302 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by their Adjournment prevent [the bill's] Return.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[l]ong settled and established practice is a consideration of great weight in a proper interpretation of constitutional provisions”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“enable Congress to proceed immediately with its reconsideration”
7 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.