State v. Doxtater’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 7 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Mohegan Tribe v. State of Connecticut (1980), Haaland v. Brackeen (2023)
2 federal appellate · 7 district · 10 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.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That immediately upon, and after the date of the passage of this act all Indians, committing against the person or property of another Indian 'or other person any of the following crimes, namely, murder, manslaughter, rape, assault with intent to kill, arson, burglary and larceny within any territory of the United States, and either within or without an Indian reservation, shall be subject therefor to the laws of such territory relative to said crimes, and shall be tried therefor in the same courts and in the same manner and shall he subject to the same penalties as are all other persons charged with the commission of said crimes, respectively; and the said courts are hereby given jurisdiction in all such cases; and all such Indians committing any of the above crimes against the person or property of another Indian of other person within the boundaries of any state of the United States, and within the limits of any Indian reservation, shall be subject to the same laws, tried in the same courts and in the same manner, and subject to the same penalties as are all other persons committing any of the above crimes within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Blackbird““Unless the jurisdiction of the state over the territory occupied by the Indians within its boundaries is prohibited by the act admitting the state into the Union, or by some existing treaty with the Indians occupying such territory at the time of its admission, there does not seem to be any authority in Congress to pass laws for the government or control of such Indians, or to prohibit the states from passing such laws, except the provision of the constitution which authorizes Congress to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes. Under this provision of the constitution, Congress has passed laws regulating trade with the Indians, requiring the taking out of licenses for that purpose, prohibiting the selling of intoxicating liquors to them, and other things which come within the power to regulate commerce; but it never has been contended that under this provision Congress had the power to pass laws generally for the punishment of crimes committed on these reservations, either by the Indians or by other persons.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Rufus
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.