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Stevens v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis

1969

Citation profile

25
cited by 25 later decisions
April 2019
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 1 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Stevens v. Commissioner (1971), United States v. Anderson (1980)

3 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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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. § 348 · 25 U.S.C. § 468

Relies on Squire v. Capoeman · Marina Mercante Nicaraguense, S. A. v. McAllister Bros. · Choteau v. Burnet · Superintendent of Five Civilized Tribes v. Commissioner · Commissioner v. Walker

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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “authorized and directed to allot pro rata, under rules and regulations and in such areas and classes of lands as may be prescribed by him, among such enrolled Indians all the unreserved and otherwise undisposed-of lands on the Fort Belknap Reservation, which trust patents shall be issued in the names of the said allottees. * * *”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Bryan L. Stevens and Bryan L. Stevens as Surviving Spouse of Alma Stevens, Deceased v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Bryan L. Stevens and Bryan L. Stevens as Surviving Spouse of Alma Stevens, Deceased v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue · Stevens v. Commissioner
  2. “a ward of the government, being an enrolled Indian at the Fort Belknap Indian Agency, Harlem, Montana”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Bryan L. Stevens and Bryan L. Stevens as Surviving Spouse of Alma Stevens, Deceased v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Bryan L. Stevens and Bryan L. Stevens as Surviving Spouse of Alma Stevens, Deceased v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue · Stevens v. Commissioner
  3. “free from all charge and incumbrance whatsoever.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Bryan L. Stevens and Bryan L. Stevens as Surviving Spouse of Alma Stevens, Deceased v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Bryan L. Stevens and Bryan L. Stevens as Surviving Spouse of Alma Stevens, Deceased v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue · Stevens v. Commissioner

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.