United States v. Rogers’s Empirical Analysis
45 U.S. 567 · 1846
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 13 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 153 later decisions (29 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Baker v. Carr (1962), Oneida Indian Nation of New York State v. County of Oneida New York (1974)
52 federal appellate · 13 district · 33 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
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 153 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . It is our duty to expound and execute the law as we find it, and we think it too firmly and clearly established to admit of dispute, that the Indian tribes residing within the territorial limits of the United States are subject to their authority, and where the country occupied by them is not within the limits of one of the states, Congress may by law punish any of-fence committed there, no matter whether the offender be a white man or an Indian. . . .”45 U.S. at 638-9.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a part of the territory of the United States.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ That so much of the laws of the United States as provides for the punishment of crimes committed within any place within the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States shall be in force in the Indian country: provided, that the same shall not extend to crimes committed by one Indian against the person or property of another.””
2 later decisions 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.