Colin Mitchel Robert v. The United States’s Empirical Analysis
34 U.S. 711 · 1835
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 12 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 143 later decisions (30 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2020 · most notably Oneida Indian Nation of New York State v. County of Oneida New York (1974), County of Oneida New York v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York State New York (1985)
28 federal appellate · 12 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 13 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 The United States v. Don Fernando De La Maza Arredondo · Barr v. Gratz's heirs · The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts v. The Town of Pawlet and Ozias Clarke · John Green v. John Liter
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 143 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as sacred as the fee simple of the whites.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““According to the established principles of the laws of nations, 'the laws of a conquered or ceded country remain in force till ¡altered by the new sovereign.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In taking possession of Florida pursuant to the treaty, and in establishing a government in and over it, Congress have acted on the same principles as those which were adopted by this court in the former cases. In the Act of 1821, for carrying the treaty into execution, Congress authorizes the vesting the whole power of government in such person as the president may direct for the maintaining the inhabitants in the free enjoyment of their property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Edwards v. Carter
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.