Jordan v. O'Brien’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 1986
2 district · 4 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. § 354 · 25 U.S.C. § 404
Relies on Reid v. Gorman · Fridley v. Munson · Carlow v. Jordan
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are of the view that this provision found its way into the law for the protection of the Indiáns, who were wards of the government, and not for the protection of the man who purchased Indian land.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jordan v. O'Brien
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.