Brader v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 1942 · most notably Snell v. Canard (1923), Hope v. Foley (1916)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 26 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Kagama · Samuel Worcester v. The State of Georgia · Choate v. Trapp · The Cherokee Nation v. The State of Georgia · Heckman v. United States
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““At all times, on and since the passage of the act [April 26, 1906], has the government shown a most determined and persistent purpose to continue the exercise of the authority derived from its guardianship relation, and in the Enabling Act to see that the power was reserved to it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moffett v. Conley““All conveyances made under this provision by heirs who are full-blood Indians are to be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tobley v. Dekinder
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.