Delaware Tribal Business Committee v. Weeks’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
90 federal appellate · 59 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 278 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Fullilove v. Klutznick (1980), United States v. Locke (1985)
90 federal appellate · 59 district · 42 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. § 1181 · 25 U.S.C. § 1292 · 25 U.S.C. § 1294
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Buckley v. Valeo · Bolling v. Sharpe · Morton v. Mancari · Flemming v. Nestor
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 278 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`special treatment [that] can be tied rationally to the fulfillment of Congress' unique obligation toward the Indians.'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“the consequence of a legislative accident, perhaps caused by nothing more than the unfortunate fact that Congress is too busy to do all of its work as carefully as it should.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“one of the most fundamental expressions, if not the major expression, of the constitutional power of Congress over Indian affairs.”
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.