Blake v. Arnett’s Empirical Analysis
663 F.2d 906 · 1981
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably 826 F. Supp. 1019 - In Re Catfish Antitrust Litigation (1993), Parravano v. Babbitt (1995)
16 federal appellate · 6 district · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez · Montana v. United States · Washington v. Washington State Commercial Passenger Fishing Vessel Assn. · Samuel Worcester v. The State of Georgia · Federal Energy Administration v. Algonquin SNG, Inc.
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not much less necessary to [their existence] than the atmosphere they breathed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“at least in part the result of political infighting in Congress.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress can create a reservation, reserve rights to the Indians, and dispose of the lands of the United States by statute as well as by treaty.”). 37 . See Complaint, exh. C thereto; 1796 Treaty, reprinted in Kappler 45. 38 . The United States’ policy of dealing with the Indians has been anything but constant. After Congress ended formal treaty making with the Indians in 1871, the United States entered into what is sometimes referred to as the allotment period. This era of forced assimilation spanned the years 1871-1934. During this time, with”
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.