Williams v. Joins’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 1957 · most notably Scott v. Brakel (1914), Muskogee Electric Traction Co. v. McIntire (1913)
26 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 Bell v. Territory of Oklahoma · Robinson v. Marino · Yarbrough v. Spalding · City of Lincoln Center v. Bailey
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That the rolls of citizenship and of freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes approved by the Secretary of the Interior shall' be conclusive evidence as to the quantum of Indian blood of any enrolled citizen or freedman of said tribes and of no other persons, to determine questions arising under this act and the enrollment records of the Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes shall hereafter be conclusive evidence as to the age of said citizen or freedman.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Rice v. Ruble · Grayson v. Durant
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.