Stewart v. Keyes’s Empirical Analysis
295 U.S. 403 · 1935
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably County of Oneida New York v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York State New York (1985), United States v. Hellard (1944)
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 27 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 Campbell v. Holt · Harris v. Bell · Skelton v. Dill · Adkins v. Arnold
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As respects suits to recover real or personal property where the right of action has been barred by a statute of limitations and a later act has attempted to repeal or remove the bar after it became complete, the rule sustained by reason and preponderant authority is that the removing act cannot be given effect consistently with constitutional provisions forbidding a deprivation of property without due process of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“nothing short of an attempt arbitrarily to take property from one having a perfect title and to subject it to an extinguished claim of another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hjeltness v. Johnson“The(se) laws remained state laws, as before, and as such were to be applied to these Indians.”
1 later decision 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.