Carlo v. Gustafson’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 25 U.S.C. § 345 · 28 U.S.C. § 1353
Relies on Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · Morton v. Ruiz · Burnett v. New York Central Railroad · Seminole Nation v. United States · United States v. Jackson
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]s full title was conveyed under the 1926 Act, a trust responsibility in the traditional sense of the term did not exist — the Native acquired legal and equitable title. This does not mean, however, that the Federal Government cannot have binding obligations to the Alaska Native townsite owners ... It has been established that the trust doctrine is not limited to situations in which the government has retained legal title to the land.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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