Fry v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
557 F.2d 646 · 1977
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Donovan v. Coeur Tribal Farm (1985), United States v. Anderson (1980)
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Relies on McClanahan v. State Tax Commission of Arizona · Moe v. Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation · Mescalero Apache Tribe v. Jones · Trudo v. United States · Squire v. Capoeman
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is one thing to say that courts should construe the treaties and statutes dealing with Indians liberally, and quite another to say that, based on these same policy considerations ..., courts themselves are free to create favorable rules____ Congress is the body which grants tax exemptions.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In both Squire and Stevens, the income which was held to be exempt to the allottee was from operations conducted on his own allotted land.”
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.