Rice v. Rehner’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
117 federal appellate · 33 district · 136 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 410 later decisions (34 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably National Farmers Union Insurance Companies 27 v. Crow Tribe of Indians (1985), Oklahoma Tax Commission v. Citizen Band Potawatomi Indian Tribe of Oklahoma (1991)
117 federal appellate · 33 district · 136 state decisions — followed in 17 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
reviewedRehner v. Rice (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1161
Relies on Morton v. Mancari · Michel v. United States · United States v. Wheeler · United States v. Mazurie · Williams v. Lee
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 410 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The provisions of sections 1154, 1156, 3113, 3488, and 3669, of this title, shall not apply within any area that is not Indian country, nor to any act or transaction within any area of Indian country provided such act or transaction is in conformity both with the laws of the State in which such act or transaction occurs and with an ordinance duly adopted by the tribe having jurisdiction over such area of Indian country, certified by the Secretary of the Interior, and published in the Federal Register.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“State's regulatory interest will be particularly substantial if the State can point to off-reservation effects that necessitate State intervention.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“notions of sovereignty that have developed from historical traditions of tribal independence.”
7 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.