Walker v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2023 · most notably Sperry Oil & Gas Co. v. Chisholm (1924), Spaniard v. Tantom (1928)
25 state decisions
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 Tiger v. Western Investment Co. · Jefferson v. Winkler · Wilson v. Morton · Kirkpatrick v. Burgess
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The reason the state cannot legislate for an Indian of the Five Civilized Tribes is that Congress has reserved the iright tto legislate for him as a dependent people.” 43 Okla. 144 , 141 Pac. 680 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Molone v. Wamsley
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.