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extinguishment of Indian title

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 314 U.S. 339 - United States v. Santa Fe Pacific Railroad · 1941Most cited · 546 citing opinions

The power of Congress in that regard is supreme. The manner, method and time of such extinguishment raise political not justiciable issues.

How often courts cite the case defining “extinguishment of Indian title”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “extinguishment of Indian title” — 540 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.