High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Supreme Court of the United States, under Chief Justice John Marshall (1801—1835), issued some of the earliest and most influential opinions on the status of aboriginal title in the United States, several of them written by Chief Justice John Marshall himself. However, without exception, the remarks of the Court on aboriginal title during this period are dicta. Only one indigenous litigant ever appeared before the Marshall Court, and there, Marshall dismissed the case for lack of original jurisdiction.