Indian ward
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 283 U.S. 747 - Mott v. United States · 1931Most cited · 53 citing opinions
Its right to sue in behalf of an Indian ward for the purpose of asserting and enforcing his interest in property diverted from a trust fund while being administered by the government's officers is obvious. Barnett is such a ward, for he is a full-blood Creek Indian who has not been relieved from the restrictions we have described.
How often courts cite the case defining “Indian ward”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Indian ward” — 53 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.