Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
988 federal appellate · 476 district · 597 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,152 later decisions (72 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Cannon v. University of Chicago (1979), United States v. Mitchell (1983)
988 federal appellate · 476 district · 597 state decisions — followed in 30 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedMartinez v. Santa Clara Pueblo (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Bell v. Hood · United States v. Testan · Cort v. Ash
Cited together with United States v. Wheeler · Montana v. United States · National Farmers Union Insurance Companies 27 v. Crow Tribe of Indians · Oklahoma Tax Commission v. Citizen Band Potawatomi Indian Tribe of Oklahoma · Iowa Mutual Insurance v. LaPlante
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 3,152 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Tribal courts have repeatedly been recognized as appropriate forums for the exclusive adjudication of disputes affecting important personal and property interests of both Indians and non-Indians.”
87 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Indian tribes have long been recognized as possessing the common-law immunity from suit traditionally enjoyed by sovereign powers.”
74 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“distinct, independent political communities, retaining their original natural rights”
21 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.