United States v. John’s Empirical Analysis
560 F.2d 1202 · 1977
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2007
4 federal appellate · 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1151 (Indian Crimes Act of 1976) · 18 U.S.C. § 1153
Relies on Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Morton v. Mancari · DeCoteau v. District County Court for the Tenth Judicial District · Lone Wolf v. Ethan a Hitchcock · United States v. Antelope
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All land within the limits of any Indian reservation under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Government, notwithstanding the issuance of any patent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“within the Indian country . . . subject to the same laws and penalties as all other persons committing [such] offenses, within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“by virtue of the authority contained in the act of June 21, 1939, and in section 7 of the act of June 18, 1934,”
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.