Teague v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1952 · most notably National Exploration Co. v. Robins (1929), Childers v. Beaver (1926)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 42 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
Relies on Gaines v. Fuentes · Goodrich v. Ferris · James Goudy v. Edward Meath · United States v. Waller · Schrimpscher v. Stockton
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under said provisions of the Enabling Act and the Constitution, chapter 49 of Mansfield’s Digest of the Laws of Arkansas and the provisos of section.6 of the Supple mental Creek Agreement of June 30, 1902, qualifying said chapter 49, were repealed, and the devolution of an estate of a deceased Creek allottee, having died since the admission of Oklahoma into the Union, is governed by the laws of descent "and distribution of the state of Oklahoma, and noncitizen heirs may inherit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kunkel v. Barnett““It is obvious, under section 1 of said act, supra, that the lands in question, being the allotment of a member of the Creek Tribe of Indians enrolled as a one thirty-second Indian by blood, are ‘unrestricted lands; that under section 4 of said act, supra, said lands are subject to the laws of the state of Oklahoma, the same being free from restrictions””
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.