Sisseton & Wahpeton Bands or Tribes v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
423 F.2d 1386 · 1970
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 2006 · most notably Godfroy v. United States (1972), Godfroy v. United States (1972)
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 Fletcher v. Krise · Bowser, Inc. v. The United States and General Steel Tank Co., Inc., Third-Party · Cherokee Nation v. United States · Red Lake and Pembina Bands, Jay H. Hoag and Associate Attorneys for in Docket 18-A v. Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, Docket 113, Little Shell Band of Chippewa Indians, Docket 191, and the United States. Little Shell Band of Chippewa Indians v. Red Lake, Pembina and White Earth Bands, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and the 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“-x- * -x- ipjjg United States holds the sums awarded in trust for the Indians, and the [attorney] fees are to come from those funds. [Id. at 470, 423 F.2d at 1391 .]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * Under the Indian Claims Commission Act, the Commission must determine that such a fee-claiming attorney has rendered services “in prosecuting the claim in question” before he becomes entitled to compensation. Red Lake and Pembina Bands v. [Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians,] United States, supra, 173 Ct.Cl. 928 , 933-934, 355 F.2d 936 , 938-939. If he is so found, payment is directed from the funds in the hands of the Government. The Act thus provides, in effect, that such a request for fees is an action against the United States of which the Commission (and this court, on appeal) has jurisdiction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * [no] other tribunal [Commission] can or is likely to know as much about the relative participation of the claimants. There are no private dealings or arrangements * * * to consider or adjudicate. The issue wholly depends on an evaluation of the contribution of the two independent sets of lawyers to the final result * * *. The task is one for which the Commission is uniquely fitted [footnote omitted; ibid, at 470-471].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.