CHOCTAW NATION OF INDIANS v. UNITED STATES et al.

Citation

318 U.S. 423 (1942)

Decision : 8-0

Majority Opinion: Francis Murphy

Justices Participating

• Felix Frankfurter | voted with the majority or plurality

• Francis Murphy | voted with the majority or plurality , justice wrote an opinion

• Harlan Stone | voted with the majority or plurality

• Hugo Black | voted with the majority or plurality

• Owen Roberts | voted with the majority or plurality

• Robert Jackson | voted with the majority or plurality

• Stanley Reed | voted with the majority or plurality

• Wiley Rutledge | other

• William Douglas | voted with the majority or plurality

Categories

• Canons of Construction
• Claims against the U.S.
• Indianness/Identity
• Land/allotment/grants of land
• Treaties
• Wardship/Trust

Cited Cases

• 179 U.S. 494 (1900), UNITED STATES v. CHOCTAW NATION AND CHICKASAW NATION
• 229 U.S. 498 (1912), UNITED STATES v. MILLE LAC BAND OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS IN THE STATE OF MINNESOTA
• 315 U.S. 681 (1941), TULEE v. STATE OF WASHINGTON
• 304 U.S. 111 (1937), UNITED STATES v. SHOSHONE TRIBE OF INDIANS
• 119 U.S. 1 (1886), CHOCTAW NATION v. UNITED STATES
• 193 U.S. 115 (1903), UNITED STATES v. THE CHOCTAW NATION AND THE CHICKASAW NATION

Case Cited In

• 324 U.S. 335 (1944), NORTHWESTERN BANDS OF SHOSHONE INDIANS v. UNITED STATES
• 330 U.S. 169 (1946), CONFEDERATED BANDS OF UTE INDIANS v. UNITED STATES
• 470 U.S. 226 (1984), COUNTY OF ONEIDA, NEW YORK, et al. v. ONEIDA INDIAN NATION OF NEW YORK STATE et al.
• 472 U.S. 237 (1984), MOUNTAIN STATES TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH CO. v. PUEBLO OF SANTA ANA
• 526 U.S. 172 (1998), MINNESOTA, et al. v. MILLE LACS BAND OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS et al.
• 587 U.S. 329 (2018), HERRERA v. WYOMING