McDonald’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Smith v. Salish Kootenai College (2006), Water Wheel Camp Recreational Area, Inc. v. Larance (2011)
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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
Relies on United States v. Mitchell · Rodriguez De Quijas v. Shearson/American Express, Inc. · Agostini v. Felton Chancellor Board of Education of the City of New York · Williams v. Lee · Montana 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Supreme Court's decision in Nevada v. Hicks, that the ownership status of land is not dispositive in determining that a tribal court lacks jurisdiction over a civil claim against state officers who enter tribal land to execute a search warrant against a tribe member suspected of having violated state law outside the reservation. However, the Court noted that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We hold that the nature and purpose of the grant [of a right-of-way over the road to the Bureau of Indian Affairs], the continuing control exercised by the Tribe over the road, and the Supreme Court’s previous treatment of BIA roads supports the conclusion that the tribal court had jurisdiction to entertain [the minor Indian’s suit] against the McDonald family.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“`general proposition [that] the inherent sovereign powers of an Indian Tribe do not extend [to] the activities of non-members of the tribe' except to the extent `necessary to protect tribal self-government or to control internal relations'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.