United States of America Ex Rel. Tilden Louis Condon v. Don R. Erickson, Warden of the South Dakota State Penitentiary’s Empirical Analysis
478 F.2d 684 · 1973
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 9 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2017 · most notably Solem v. Bartlett (1984), United States of America, the Walker River Paiute Tribe of Nevada and Robert Benton v. Southern Pacific Transportation Company, United States of America v. Southern Pacific Transportation Company (1976)
24 federal appellate · 9 district · 6 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1151 (Indian Crimes Act of 1976) · 18 U.S.C. § 1153 · 25 U.S.C. § 1323 · 28 U.S.C. § 1360
Relies on McClanahan v. State Tax Commission of Arizona · Samuel Worcester v. The State of Georgia · Rice v. Olson · Seymour v. Superintendent of Washington State Penitentiary · United States v. Bob Celestine
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the respective reservations thus diminished.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Solem v. Bartlett · Russ v. Wilkins““Each case, of course, must be decided under the applicable statute and upon its own facts. Where as here, however, the question presented is close, we conclude that a holding favoring federal jurisdiction is required unless Congress has expressly or by clear implication diminished the boundaries of the reservation opened to settlement.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“language: 47 Both the House and Senate Committee reports are silent as to the 1908 Act's effect upon the boundaries of the Cheyenne River Reservation. Appellant points out the various references in the reports and attached documents to a diminished reservation and a relinquishment of land by the Indians. [Emphasis included.] A reservation, however, as already pointed out, may be diminished in land size by sale of portions thereof to non-Indians without changing the reservation's boundaries. 48 Id. at 688 (footnote omitted, emphasis added). 49 Here, as in Erickson, the statutory phrase”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.