Haile v. Saunooke’s Empirical Analysis
246 F.2d 293 · 1957
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably Twin Cities Chippewa Tribal Council v. Minnesota Chippewa Tribe (1967), Maryland Casualty Co. v. Citizens National Bank of West Hollywood (1966)
16 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 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. § 331 (White Earth Reservation Land Settlement Act of 1985) · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act)
Relies on United States v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Heckman v. United States · Tiger v. Western Investment Co. · United States v. Felipe Sandoval · United States v. McGowan
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is said that the right to sue the [EBCI] is given by the act of the Legislature of North Carolina incorporating the band; but it is perfectly clear that an act of a state legislature cannot be allowed to interfere with the guardianship over these people which the United States has assumed, since Congress alone must determine the extent to which the immunities and protection afforded by tribal status are to be withdrawn.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The rule that a tribe of Indians under the tutelage of the United States is not subject to suit without the consent of Congress is too well settled to admit of argument. 31”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Atkinson v. Haldane
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.