Halbert v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
283 U.S. 753 · 1931
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2014 · most notably United States v. Mitchell (1983), United States v. Dodge (1976)
31 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Halbert (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Phillips v. Commissioner · Sligh v. James a Kirkwood · Cherokee Nation v. Ethan a Hitchcock · Gritts v. Fisher · Sizemore v. Brady
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and other tribes of fish-eating Indians on the Pacific Coast.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all members of the Hoh, Quileute, Ozette or other tribes of Indians of Washington who are affiliated with the Quinaielt and Quileute tribes in the [Treaty of Olympia] and who may elect to take allotments on the Quinault Reservation rather than on the reservations set aside for these tribes.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. United States v. Washington · 96 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 6678, 96 Daily Journal D.A.R. 10,923 Confederated Tribes of Chehalis Indian Reservation, Cross-Appellee, and Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe v. State of Washington William R. Wilkerson, Individually and as Acting Director of the State of Washington Department of Fisheries Frank R. Lockard, Individually and as Director of the State of Washington Department of Game Washington State Game Commission, and United States of America v. State of Washington“the right of taking fish at all usual and accustomed grounds.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. 96 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 6678, 96 Daily Journal D.A.R. 10,923 Confederated Tribes of Chehalis Indian Reservation, Cross-Appellee, and Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe v. State of Washington William R. Wilkerson, Individually and as Acting Director of the State of Washington Department of Fisheries Frank R. Lockard, Individually and as Director of the State of Washington Department of Game Washington State Game Commission, and United States of America v. State of Washington · Confederate Tribes of the Chealis Indian Reservation v. State of Washington
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.