McCurdy v. Steele’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Dry Creek Lodge, Inc. v. United States (1975), O'Neal v. Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe (1973)
17 federal appellate · 7 district ·
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. § 1301 (§ 201 of the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968) · 25 U.S.C. § 1302 (§ 202 of the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968) · 25 U.S.C. § 1303 (§ 203 of the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968) · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 1361 · 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Bell v. Hood · Griffin v. Breckenridge · St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No Indian tribe in exercising powers of self-government shall- 19 ****** 20 * * * 21”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No Indian tribe in exercising powers of self-government shall— (1) make or enforce any law prohibiting the free exercise of religion, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peacably to assemble and to petition for a redress of grievances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“appears to have been tailored by Congress to the purpose of enhancing the civil liberties of individual Indians without unduly undermining Indian self-government and cultural autonomy.”
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.