Kendall v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions

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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We have no hesitation .in saying that the United States, under the circumstances, had the right to make the treaty that was made, without consulting plaintiffs, or incurring any liability to them. The act of Congress,, which appropriated the money, only followed the treaty in securing its payment to the individual Indians, without deduction for agents. And both the act and the treaty are inconsistent with the payment of any part of the sum thus appropriated to plaintiffs.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ball v. Halsell

2. “We apprehend that the doctrine has never been held, that a claim of no fixed amount, nor time or mode of payment; a claim which has never received the assent of the person against whom it . is asserted, and which remains to be settled by negotiation or suit at law, can be so assigned as to give the assignee an equitable right to prevent the original parties from compromising or adjusting the claim on any terms that may suit them.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ball v. Halsell