HENRY CHOUTEAU, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. PATRICK MOLONY

Citation

57 U.S. 203 (1853)

Decision : 9-0

Majority Opinion: James Wayne

Justices Participating

• Benjamin Curtis | voted with the majority or plurality

• John Campbell | voted with the majority or plurality

• John Catron | voted with the majority or plurality

• John McLean | voted with the majority or plurality

• James Wayne | voted with the majority or plurality , justice wrote an opinion

• Peter Daniel | voted with the majority or plurality

• Roger Taney | voted with the majority or plurality

• Robert Grier | voted with the majority or plurality

• Samuel Nelson | voted with the majority or plurality

Categories

• Canons of Construction
• Contracts
• Doctrine of Discovery
• Indian Title/Occupancy
• International law
• Land/allotment/grants of land
• Treaties

Case Cited In

• 231 U.S. 28 (1913), UNITED STATES v. SANDOVAL
• 249 U.S. 110 (1918), LANE, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, et al. v. PUEBLO OF SANTA ROSA
• 271 U.S. 432 (1925), UNITED STATES v. CANDELARIA et al.
• 314 U.S. 339 (1941), UNITED STATES, AS GUARDIAN OF THE HUALPAI INDIANS OF ARIZONA, v. SANTA FE PACIFIC RAILROAD CO.
• 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.