Menominee Tribe of Indians v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
256 federal appellate · 104 district · 79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 699 later decisions (55 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2025 · most notably Washington v. Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indian Reservation (1980), Washington v. Washington State Commercial Passenger Fishing Vessel Assn. (1979)
256 federal appellate · 104 district · 79 state decisions — followed in 12 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 United States v. Lineas Winans · Lone Wolf v. Ethan a Hitchcock · Squire v. Capoeman · Shoshone Tribe of Indians 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 699 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the intention to abrogate or modify a treaty is not to be lightly imputed to the Congress.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'for a home, to be held as Indian lands are held,' " established a reservation). And later Acts of Congress left no room for doubt. In 1866, the United States entered yet another treaty with the Creek Nation. This agreement reduced the size of the land set aside for the Creek, compensating the Tribe at a price of 30 cents an acre. Treaty Between the United States and the Creek Nation of Indians, Art. III, June 14, 1866, 14 Stat. 786 . But Congress explicitly restated its commitment that the remaining land would "be forever set apart as a home for said Creek Nation,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'Nothing in this section ... shall deprive any Indian or any Indian tribe, band, or community of any right, privilege or immunity afforded under Federal treaty, agreement, or statute with respect to hunting, trapping, or fishing or the control, licensing, or regulation thereof.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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