Smith v. Babbitt’s Empirical Analysis
100 F.3d 556 · 1996
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably In re Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa / Meskwaki Casino Litigation (2003), Mescalero Apache Tribe v. New Mexico (1997)
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez · Montana v. United States · Martinez v. Southern Ute Tribe of Southern Ute Reservation · Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Fond du Lac Heavy Equipment & Construction Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]areful examination of the complaints and the record reveal that this action is an attempt by the plaintiffs to appeal the Tribe’s membership determinations. It is true that appellants allege violations of IGRA, ICRA, IRA, RICO, and the Tribe’s Constitution. However, upon closer examination, we find that these allegations are merely attempts to move this dispute, over which this court would not otherwise have jurisdiction, into federal court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.