United States v. Thunder Hawk’s Empirical Analysis
127 F.3d 705 · 1997
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2023
9 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1152 · 18 U.S.C. § 1202 · 18 U.S.C. § 13 (Assimilative Crimes Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 2119 · 18 U.S.C. § 7 · 18 U.S.C. § 844 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · Caminetti v. United States · United States v. Wheeler · Cablevision Co. v. Motion Picture Ass'n of America, Inc. · Venturi v. California
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any Indian or other person or persons ... within the United States, and within any town, district, or territory, belonging to any nation or nations, tribe or tribes, of Indians, commit any crime, offence, or misdemeanor, which if committed in any place or district of country under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, would, by the laws of the United States, be punished with death, or any other punishment ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“; by employing the negative, § 1152 applies federal enclave law to all other situations ( i.e., to all crimes committed on reservations that are punishable under state law pursuant to the Assimilative Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. § 13(a), regardless of the nature or identity of the non Indian victim — including, presumably, the government). The fears expressed by the dissent of a statutory”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We do not believe ... that Quiver stands for the proposition that the 'Indian versus Indian' exception applies to every 'victimless' crime involving Indians.”
1 later decision 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.