Nelson v. Dubois’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2004
2 federal appellate · 11 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. § 1322
Relies on Williams v. Lee · Kennerly v. District Court of the Ninth Judicial District of Montana · State Ex Rel. Bear v. District Court of the Fifteenth Judicial District Ex Rel. County of Roosevelt · Gourneau v. Smith · Poitra v. Demarrias
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Neither regulatory nor adjudicatory authority over the state highway accident at issue is needed to preserve the right of reservation Indians to make their own laws and be ruled by them.' The Montana rule, therefore, and not its exceptions, applies to this case.”
1 later decision 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.