Eskra v. Morton’s Empirical Analysis
524 F.2d 9 · 1975
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2012 · most notably Trimble v. Gordon (1977), Lowell v. Kowalski (1980)
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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. § 348 · 25 U.S.C. § 371 · 25 U.S.C. § 464 · 5 U.S.C. § 702
Relies on Roe v. Wade · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Weinberger v. Salfi · Bolling v. Sharpe · Morton v. Mancari
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he United States, as well as each of the several States, must accord every person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“For the purpose of determining the descent of land to the heirs of any deceased Indian under the provisions of section 348 of this title, whenever any male and female Indian shall have cohabited together as husband and wife according to the custom and manner of Indian life, the issue of such cohabitation shall be, for the purpose aforesaid, taken and deemed to be the legitimate issue of the Indians so living together, and every Indian child, otherwise illegitimate, shall for such purpose be taken and deemed to be the legitimate issue of the father of such child....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the due process provision of the Fifth Amendment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Christy v. Hodel
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.