John v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Given the plain language of John I and John II, it is clear that we believed that the custody and support matters were separate and that the transfer of the former to the tribal court did not entail the, transfer of the latter.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska

2. “'Although a tribal child support order need not match the format of a support order issued by the Alaska courts, it must, at a minimum, be concrete enough to be enforceable.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska

3. “a recognizable child support order to which the [superior] court could 'extend comity.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska