Unitd States v. Klamath Moadoc Tribes’s Empirical Analysis
304 U.S. 119 · 1938
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 24 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 270 later decisions (38 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2007 · most notably United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians (1980), Pope v. United States (1944)
59 federal appellate · 24 district · 47 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Jacobs v. United States · United States v. Shoshone Tribe of Indians · United States v. California & Oregon Land Co. · United States v. California & Oregon Land Co.
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 270 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The established rule is that the taking of property by the United States in the exertion of its power of eminent domain implies a promise to pay just compensation, i. e., value at the time of the taking plus an amount sufficient to produce the full equivalent of that value paid contemporaneously with the taking.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“until otherwise ordered by the President * * * be set part as a residence for said Indians. * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Beit enacted * *. * 'That ju- • risdiction is hereby conferred upon the Court of Claims, with right of . appeal to the Supreme Court of the ■ United States, to consider and determine all legal and equitable claims against the United States of the Blackfeet * * .* and Gros Ventre Nations * * * for lands or hunting rights claimed to be existing in all said nations or tribes of Indians by virtue of the treaty of October 17, 1855 (Eleventh Statutes at Large, page 657 and the following) * * * with said Indians, and all claims arising directly therefrom, which lands and hunting rights are alleged to have been taken from the said Indians by the United States * * * and the final judgment and satisfaction thereof shall be in full settlement of all said claims.” ( 43 Stat. 21 .)”
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.