United States v. Ewing’s Empirical Analysis
47 F. 809 · 1891
Citation profile
1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1955
1 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 United States v. Kagama · Kan-Gi-Shun-Ca · The Kansas Indians · Bates v. Clark · United States v. Forty-three Gallons of Whiskey
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the unappropriated public lands lying within the boundaries thereof and of all lands lying within said limits, owned or held by an Indian or Indian tribes, and until the title thereof shall be extinguished by the United States, the same shall be and remain subject to the disposition of the United States,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“And said Indian lands shall remain under the absolute jurisdiction and control of the Congress of the United .States.”
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.