Squire v. Capoeman’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
284 federal appellate · 69 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 742 later decisions (42 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably United States v. Mitchell (1983), United States v. Mitchell (1980)
284 federal appellate · 69 district · 42 state decisions — followed in 14 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedSquire v. Capoeman (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Samuel Worcester v. The State of Georgia · Carpenter v. Shaw · Board of County Com'rs of Creek County v. Seber · Choteau v. Burnet
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 742 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Indians are citizens and * * * in ordinary affairs of life, not governed by treaties or remedial legislation, they are subject to the payment of income taxes as are other citizens.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“competent and capable of managing his or her affairs.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The land no longer serves the purpose for which it was by treaty set aside to his ancestors, and for which it was allotted to him.”
10 later decisions 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.