Muckleshoot Tribe v. Lummi Indian Tribe’s Empirical Analysis
141 F.3d 1355 · 1998
Citation profile
18 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably Gilbrook v. City of Westminster (1999), Gilbrook
18 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
Relies on United States v. Washington · United States v. Washington · Covey v. Hollydale Mobilehome Estates · O'Neill v. United States
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“offered no evidence that suggests that [the Finding of Fact] is ambiguous or that the court intended something other than its apparent meaning.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]t will be up to the parties to offer admissible evidence to enable the district court to interpret the decree in specific geographic terms. While evidence that was before Judge Boldt when he made his finding is obviously relevant, there may be other evidence indicative of the contemporary understanding of “the present environs of Seattle.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In addition to the reef net locations listed above, the usual and accustomed fishing places of the Lummi Indians at treaty times included the marine areas of Northern Puget Sound from the Fraser River south to the present environs of Seattle, and particularly Bellingham Bay.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.