British-American Oil Producing Co. v. Board of Equalization’s Empirical Analysis
299 U.S. 159 · 1936
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 15 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2011 · most notably Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe (1982), Montana v. Blackfeet Tribe of Indians (1985)
18 federal appellate · 15 district · 13 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 United States v. Jefferson Electric Manufacturing Co. · United States v. Freeman · Continental Mills, Inc. v. United States · James Converse Administrator of Philip Greely Deceased v. The 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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“occupied by Indians who have bought and paid for the same,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the production of oil and gas and other minerals on such lands may be taxed by the State in which said lands are located in all respects the same as production on unrestricted lands”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The issue of the trust patents containing, as the statute requires, a reservation for the benefit of the tribe of all minerals, including oil and gas, in or under the allotted land, operates to carve out of such land and create a distinct estate consisting of the minerals. This estate is in itself land, and, being reserved for the benefit of the tribe, it is tribal land, and is unallotted.””
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.