United States v. Chavez’s Empirical Analysis
290 U.S. 357 · 1933
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 9 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2015 · most notably McClanahan v. State Tax Commission of Arizona (1973), Rice v. Olson (1945)
24 federal appellate · 9 district · 16 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 Donnelly v. United States · United States v. Felipe Sandoval · United States v. Candelaria · United States v. Sam Pelican · Montoya v. United States
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.
“[T]he term `Indian country' was intended to include any unceded lands owned or occupied by an Indian nation or tribe or Indians.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The people inhabiting this state do agree and declare that they forever disclaim all right and title . . . to all lands lying within said boundaries owned or held by any Indian or Indian tribes, the right or title to which shall have been acquired through the United States, or any prior sovereignty; and that until the title of such Indian or Indian tribes shall have been extinguished the same shall be and remain subject to the disposition and under the absolute jurisdiction and control of the congress of the United States”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(a) all land within the limits of any Indian Reservation under the jurisdiction of the United States government * * * (b) all dependent Indian communities within the borders of the United States whether within the original or subsequently acquired territory thereof, and whether within or without the limits of a state, and (c) all Indian allotments, the Indian titles tot which have not been extinguished * * 18 U.S.C. § 1151 .”
2 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.