James v. Blunk’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on White Mountain Apache Tribe v. Bracker · Wisconsin Public Intervenor v. Mortier · Organized Village of Kake v. Egan · Margolis v. Ryan · Oklahoma Tax Commission v. Chickasaw Nation
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Indian country classification [to be] the benchmark for approaching the allocation of federal, tribal, and state authority with respect to Indians and Indian lands.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[f]ee [l]and does not become Indian country simply because of its tribal ownership or because of its proximity or importance to the ... [r]eservation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“originated in federal criminal statutes and other specific statutory contexts, the Supreme Court now considers”
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.