UNITED STATES v. OKLAHOMA GAS & ELECTRIC CO.

Citation

318 U.S. 206 (1942)

Decision : 7-2

Majority Opinion: Robert Jackson

Justices Participating

• Felix Frankfurter | voted with the majority or plurality

• Francis Murphy | voted with the majority or plurality

• Harlan Stone | voted with the majority or plurality

• Hugo Black | dissent

• Owen Roberts | voted with the majority or plurality

• Robert Jackson | voted with the majority or plurality , justice wrote an opinion

• Stanley Reed | voted with the majority or plurality

• Wiley Rutledge | voted with the majority or plurality

• William Douglas | dissent

Categories

• Indian Agents/Administrative law
• Indian Country
• Land/allotment/grants of land
• Plenary Power
• States/Authority of states
• Wardship/Trust

Cited Cases

• 260 U.S. 77 (1922), BREWER-ELLIOTT OIL & GAS COMPANY et al. v. UNITED STATES et al.
• 290 U.S. 33 (1933), UNITED STATES v. REILLY
• 215 U.S. 278 (1909), UNITED STATES v. CELESTINE
• 232 U.S. 442 (1913), UNITED STATES v. PELICAN
• 215 U.S. 291 (1909), UNITED STATES v. SUTTON
• 308 U.S. 343 (1939), BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF JACKSON, KANSAS, v. UNITED STATES
• 258 U.S. 574 (1921), STATE OF OKLAHOMA v. STATE OF TEXAS. UNITED STATES, INTERVENER

Case Cited In

• 362 U.S. 99 (1959), FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION v. TUSCARORA INDIAN NATION
• 442 U.S. 653 (1978), WILSON et al. v. OMAHA INDIAN TRIBE et al.