United States v. Algoma Lumber Co.’s Empirical Analysis
305 U.S. 415 · 1939
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 158 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably White Mountain Apache Tribe v. Bracker (1980), United States v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. (1940)
32 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 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 Merritt v. United States · United States v. Candelaria · United States v. Shoshone Tribe of Indians · Turner v. United States · Pine River Logging Improvement Company 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 158 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not necessarily involve the assumption of contractual obligations”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[What] was done by the government officials in supervising the execution of the contracts and their performance was consistent with the exercise of its function as protector of the Indians without the assumption by the United States of any obligation to the purchasers of the timber, and no implied obligation on its part arises from the performance of that function.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the manner of sale ... prescribed by the Secretary, that the contracts be executed by the Superintendent and approved by the Secretary, and that the prices of lumber be fixed by the Indian Commissioner, indicate a purpose to make the United States, acting as guardian or trustee of the Indians through the Secretary and Superintendent, the .contracting party.”
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.