Dwight R. Woodford Co. v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• ordering release of Indian held in slavery by another Indian based on the Thirteenth Amendment
• utilizing habeas remedy to free an escaped slave from bondage imposed by a fellow member of an Indian tribe
• “The United States has at no time recognized any tribal independence or relations among these Indians . . . .”
• “The United States at no time recognized any tribal independence or relations among these Indians . . . .”
• “their system is essentially patriarchal, and not tribal”
• “their system is essentially patriarchal, and not tribal”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).