Thorn v. Cone’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1940 · most notably Harjo v. Johnston (1940), Miller v. Gregory (1928)
29 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 Daniel McDougal v. Edmond McKay · Lena Pigeon v. William Buck No 199 Elias Roberts E I · Pigeon v. Buck · English v. Thomas · Heliker-Jarvis Seminole Co. v. Lincoln
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Viewing the matter in this light we conclude that Sissy and Lena Jefferson acquired their right to the land in question by their membership in the Seminole Tribe of Indians. That their allotment came to them by the blood of their tribal parents and both being full-blood Seminole Indians, as much by the father as by the mother, that in such circumstances the allottees dying intestate and without descendants their allotments ascend equally to the father and his heirs and the mother and her heirs.””
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.