Rice v. Olson’s Empirical Analysis
324 U.S. 786 · 1945
Citation profile
269 federal appellate · 43 district · 307 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 837 later decisions (54 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States (1976), Fay v. Noia (1963)
269 federal appellate · 43 district · 307 state decisions — followed in 40 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 548
Relies on United States v. Kagama · Samuel Worcester v. The State of Georgia · Bowen v. Johnston · Smith v. O'Grady · Donnelly 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 837 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“leaving Indians free from state jurisdiction and control,”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A defendant who pleads guilty is entitled to the benefit of counsel, and a request for counsel is not necessary.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any Indian who commits against the person-or property of another Indian or other person any • of the following offenses, namely, murder .,. within, the Indian country, shall be subject to the same law and penalties as all other persons committing any of the above offenses, within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Murphy v. Royal · Murphy v. Royal
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.