Short v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
486 F.2d 561 · 1973
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2010 · most notably Hoopa Valley Tribe v. Short (1974), Shermoen v. United States (1992)
11 federal appellate · 3 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 Linkletter v. Walker · Donnelly v. United States · Miller v. Robertson · Mattz v. Arnett · Hynes v. Grimes Packing Co
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was the creation of an enlarged, single reservation incorporating without distinction its added and original tracts upon which the Indians populating the newly-added lands should reside on an equal footing with the Indians theretofore resident upon it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a 12-mile square tract of land in Northern California, on the last reach of the Trinity River before it joins the Klamath River....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a strip of territory commencing at the Pacific Ocean and extending 1 mile in width on each side of the Klamath River.”
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.