Organized Village of Kake v. Egan’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
159 federal appellate · 57 district · 284 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 650 later decisions (58 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Udall v. Tallman (1965), Montana v. United States (1981)
159 federal appellate · 57 district · 284 state decisions — followed in 17 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. § 1152 · 18 U.S.C. § 1153 · 18 U.S.C. § 1161 · 18 U.S.C. § 1162 · 25 U.S.C. § 2 · 25 U.S.C. § 231 · 25 U.S.C. § 232 · 25 U.S.C. § 233
Relies on Williams v. Lee · United States v. Kagama · Samuel Worcester v. The State of Georgia · SC Hwy. Dept. v. Barnwell Bros. · Kan-Gi-Shun-Ca
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 650 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“These decisions indicate that even on reservations state laws may be applied to Indians unless such application would interfere with reservation self-government or impair a right granted or reserved by federal law.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]y 1880 the Court no longer viewed reservations as distinct nations”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“absolute jurisdiction and control of the Congress”
6 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.