Quileute Indian Tribe v. Babbitt’s Empirical Analysis
18 F.3d 1456 · 1994
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Kickapoo Tribe of Indians v. Babbitt (1995), Kescoli v. Babbitt (1996)
30 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 state decisions
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 25 U.S.C. § 2206
Relies on Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez · Johnson v. Mississippi · Fort Wayne Books, Inc. v. Indiana · Honig v. Doe · United Savings Ass'n of Texas v. Timbers of Inwood Forest Associates, Inc.
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) prejudice to any party or to the absent party; (2) whether relief can be shaped to lessen prejudice; (3) whether an adequate remedy, even if not complete, can be awarded without the absent party; and (4) whether there exists an alternative forum.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n disputes involving intertribal conflicts, the United States cannot properly represent any of the tribes without compromising its trust obligation to all tribes,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“tribal sovereignty does not extend to prevent the federal government from exercising its superior sovereign powers”
2 later decisions 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.