The Northern Cheyenne Tribe v. Northern Cheyenne Class of Allottees, Heirs and Devisees, the Northern Cheyenne Tribe v. Elva L. Littlechief Williamson and James Bowen, the Northern Cheyenne Tribe v. Myron L. Littlebird’s Empirical Analysis
505 F.2d 268 · 1974
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1996
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Choate v. Trapp · Squire v. Capoeman · Carpenter v. Shaw · Morrison v. Work · Gritts v. Fisher
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) The unallotted lands of said tribe of Indians shall be held in common, subject to the control and management thereof as Congress may deem expedient for the benefit of said Indians.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to determine whether under (the 1926 Act) the allottees, their heirs or devisees, have received a vested property right in the minerals which is protected by the fifth amendment,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to be the property of (the Northern Cheyenne) Indians, subject to such control and management of said property as the Congress of the United States may direct.”
1 later decision 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.