Hooks v. Kennard’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 1940
2 federal appellate · 17 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 De Graffenreid v. Iowa Land & Trust Co. · Godfrey v. Iowa Land & Trust Co. · Irving v. Diamond
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That the selection of, and the filing upon an allotment of land was the inception and beginning of the title of the allottee or his heirs, and that, when the patent, which is only the evidence of title, is issued it relates back to the inception of the title.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If we apply that principle to the case at bar, the title to the allotments of three Creek allottees whose estates are involved herein passed to and became vested in their heirs at the date said allotments were segregated and allotted in their names, and, as at that time the original agreement was in force, the Creek Raw of descent and distribution must be looked to to determine the heirs and the shares and portions of the allotments they are entitled to as directed by the second paragraph of section 28 of said agreement, which provides that ‘all citizens who were living on the first day of April, 1899, entitled to be enrolled under section 21, of the act of Congress approved June 28th, 1898, entitled “An act for the protection of the people of the Indian Territory and for other purposes” [Act June 28, 1898, c. 517, 30 Stat. 502 ] shall be placed upon the rolls to be made by said commission under said act of Congress, and if any such citizen has died since that time, or may hereafter die, before receiving his allotmént of lands, and distributive share of the funds of the tribe, the lands and money to 'which he would be entitled if living, shall descend .to his heirs according to the laws of descent and distribution of the Creek Nation, and be allotted and distributed to them accordingly.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Divine v. Harmon
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.