Fellows v. Blacksmith’s Empirical Analysis
60 U.S. 366 · 1856
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 6 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Baker v. Carr (1962), Oneida Indian Nation of New York State v. County of Oneida New York (1974)
8 federal appellate · 6 district · 15 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
Relies on United States v. Schooner Peggy · The United States v. Jehiel Brooks
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An objection was taken on the argument to the validity of the treaty, on the ground that the Tonawanda band of the Seneca Indians were not represented by tlie chiefs and head men of the band in the negotiation and execution of it [referring to the treaty]; but the answer to this is that the treaty, after executed and ratified' by the proper authorities of the government, becomes the supreme law of the land, and the courts can no more go behind it, for the purpose of annulling its effect and operation, than they can go behind an act of congress.””
2 later decisions 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.