Walker v. Henshaw’s Empirical Analysis
83 U.S. 436 · 1872
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2005
4 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“did not part with any right in the [200,000 acres] reserved by them as long as the claim of any single member of the tribe . . . was unsatisfied. " Id. (emphasis added). This simply enforced Article V of the 1854 Treaty, which protected the Shawnee's right of selection by providing that "no white persons or citizens shall be permitted to make locations or settlements within [the 200,000 acres], until after . . . the Shawnees shall have made their selections and locations, and the President shall have set apart the surplus.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“did not part with any right in the [200,000 acres] reserved by them as long as the claim of any single member of the tribe . . . was unsatisfied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“until the proclamation of the President of the 9th of July, 1858,”
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.