Allen v. Oliver’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 7 state decisions

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““This policy could not be enforced and carried out if the allotments made under the act were to have been alienable in five years after the date of its ratification. None were made of that date, and many of them not until a much later date, and some, doubtless, were not made until after the expiration of the five years provided for in section 14. Under these circumstances, it is clear that section 14 would fail in providing the necessary period of protection which Congress has uniformly deemed necessary in parceling the lands among the members of these tribes; and there is absolutely no reason to conclude that a different policy was intended.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Truskett v. Closser

2. ““Lands allotted to citizens shall not in any manner whatever or at any time be encumbered, taken, or sold to secure or satisfy any debt or obligation. or be alienated by the allottee or his heirs, before the expiration of five years from the date of the ratification of this act.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Truskett v. Closser

3. ““All lands allotted to the members of said tribe, except such land as is set aside to each for a homestead as herein provided, shall be alienable in five years after issuance of patent.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Truskett v. Closser