Indian
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 45 U.S. 567 - United States v. Rogers · 1846Most cited · 153 citing opinions
statutory exception
a white man who at mature age is adopted in an Indian tribe does not thereby become an Indian, and was not intended to be embraced in the exception above mentioned. He may by such adoption become entitled to certain privileges in the tribe, and make himself amenable to their laws and usages. Yet he is not an Indian; and the exception is confined to those who by the usages and customs of the Indians are regarded as belonging to their race. It does not speak of members of a tribe, but of the race generally,—of the family of Indians
How often courts cite the case defining “Indian”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Indian” — 153 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.