Bird Bear v. McLean County’s Empirical Analysis
513 F.2d 190 · 1975
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 2004
7 federal appellate · 2 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.
Relationships
Applies 25 U.S.C. § 311 · 25 U.S.C. § 331 (White Earth Reservation Land Settlement Act of 1985) · 25 U.S.C. § 345 · 25 U.S.C. § 346 · 25 U.S.C. § 348 · 25 U.S.C. § 357 · 43 U.S.C. § 932
Relies on Morton v. Ruiz · Mescalero Apache Tribe v. Jones · Squire v. Capoeman · Arenas v. United States · United States v. Oklahoma Gas & Electric 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Highways once established over the public domain under and by virtue of this act, the public at once became vested with an absolute right to the use thereof, which could not be revoked by the general government, and whoever thereafter took the title from the general government took it burdened with the highway so established.”
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.