MERIWETHER L. CLARK, EXECUTOR, AND WILLIAM P. CLARK, GEORGE R. H. CLARK, AND JEFFERSON KENNERLY CLARK, AN INFANT UNDER THE AGE OF TWENTY-ONE YEARS, BY HIS GUARDIAN AD LITEM AND NEXT FRIEND, THE SAID GEORGE R. H. CLARK, HEIRS AT LAW OF WILLIAM

Citation

38 U.S. 195 (1839)

Decision : 9-0

Majority Opinion: John Catron

Justices Participating

• Henry Baldwin | voted with the majority or plurality

• John Catron | voted with the majority or plurality , justice wrote an opinion

• John McKinley | voted with the majority or plurality

• John McLean | voted with the majority or plurality

• James Wayne | voted with the majority or plurality

• Joseph Story | voted with the majority or plurality

• Philip Barbour | voted with the majority or plurality

• Roger Taney | voted with the majority or plurality

• Smith Thompson | voted with the majority or plurality

Categories

• Doctrine of Discovery
• Indian Title/Occupancy
• International law
• Land/allotment/grants of land

Cited Cases

• 10 U.S. 87 (1810), FLETCHER v. PECK
• 13 U.S. 11 (1815), MEIGS AND AL v. M’CLUNG’S LESSEE

Case Cited In

• 95 U.S. 517 (1877), BEECHER v. WETHERBY
• 119 U.S. 55 (1886), BUTTZ v. NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD
• 329 U.S. 40 (1946), UNITED STATES v. ALCEA BAND OF TILLAMOOKS ET AL.
• 348 U.S. 272 (1954), TEE-HIT-TON INDIANS v. UNITED STATES
• 414 U.S. 661 (1973), ONEIDA INDIAN NATION OF NEW YORK et al. v. COUNTY OF ONEIDA, NEW YORK, et al.
• 470 U.S. 226 (1984), COUNTY OF ONEIDA, NEW YORK, et al. v. ONEIDA INDIAN NATION OF NEW YORK STATE et al.