Wood v. Jameson’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1999 · most notably United States v. Dion (1986), South Dakota v. Yankton Sioux Tribe (1998)
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 14 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 18 U.S.C. § 1151 (Indian Crimes Act of 1976) · 18 U.S.C. § 1153
Relies on Patterson v. Medberry · Seymour v. Superintendent of Washington State Penitentiary · United States v. Bob Celestine · United States v. Sam Pelican · Perrin v. United States
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Except as otherwise provided in sections 1154 and 1156 of this title, the term “Indian country”, as used in this chapter, means (a) all land within the limits of any Indian reservation under the jurisdiction of the United States Government, notwithstanding the issuance of any patent, and, including rights-of-way running through the reservation!)]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.