132 Or. App. 361 - Nelson v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
14 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 25 U.S.C. § 1901 (§ 2 of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978) · 25 U.S.C. § 1903 (§ 4 of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978) · 25 U.S.C. § 1912 (§ 102 of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978)
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Enrollment is not always required in order to be a member of a tribe. Some tribes do not have written rolls. Others have rolls that list only persons that were members as of a certain date.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Congress considered and rejected proposed language which would have restricted the application of the ICWA protections to only enrolled members of an Indian tribe.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[M]embership may be established through proof of enrollment[;] enrollment is not the exclusive test of membership.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re RR, Jr.
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.