Seifert v. Udall’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district ·
Relationships
Applies 25 U.S.C. § 345 · 28 U.S.C. § 1353
Relies on Dugan v. Rank · Minnesota v. United States · United States ex rel. Goldberg v. Daniels · Henrietta First Moon v. Starling White Tail · Prairie Band of Pottawatomie Tribe of Indians v. Puckkee
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. “The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action involving the right of any person, in whole or in part of Indian blood or descent, to any allotment of land under any Act of Congress or treaty. “The judgment in favor of any claimant to an allotment of land shall have the same effect, when properly certified to the Secretary of the Interior, as if such allotment had been allowed and approved by him; but this provision shall not apply to any lands held on or before December 21, 1911, by either of the Five Civilized Tribes, the Osage Nation of Indians, nor to any of the lands within the Quapaw Indian Agency.” “All persons who are in whole or in part of Indian blood or descent who are entitled to an allotment of land under any law of Congress, or who claim to be so entitled to land under any allotment Act or under any grant made by Congress, or who claim to have been unlawfully denied or excluded from any allotment or any parcel of,land to which they claim to be lawfully entitled by virtue of any Act of Congress, may cornmenee and prosecute or defend any action, suit, or proceeding in relation to their right thereto in the proper district court of the United States; and said district courts are given jurisdiction to try and determine any action, suit, or proceeding arising within their respective jurisdictions involving the right of any person, in whole or in part of Indian blood or descent, to any allotment of land under any law or treaty (and in said ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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