State v. Big Sheep’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently June 1989 · most notably Leary v. United States (1967), State v. Kantner (1972)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 42 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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. Kagama · Samuel Worcester v. The State of Georgia · Donnelly v. United States · The Cherokee Nation v. The State of Georgia · Kan-Gi-Shun-Ca
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is clear that an Indian who has obtained patent in fee to his allotment not only is a citizen of the United States, but has all the rights, privileges, and immunities of citizens of the United States, and is subject to the civil and criminal laws of the State of Montana. He is no longer a ward of the government. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Lands to which the United States has parted with title and over which it no longer exercises control, even if within the exterior boundaries of the reservation, are not deemed a part of the reservation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Johnson“power of the legislature to determine whether the practice of using peyote is inconsistent with the good order, peace and safety of the state.”
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.