Harris v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2024
12 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 18 U.S.C. § 1151 (Indian Crimes Act of 1976) · 18 U.S.C. § 1162 · 25 U.S.C. § 1302 (§ 202 of the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968) · 25 U.S.C. § 1903 (§ 4 of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978) · 25 U.S.C. § 476
Relies on Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez · Williams v. Lee · White Mountain Apache Tribe v. Bracker · Iowa Mutual Insurance v. LaPlante · Fisher v. District Court of Sixteenth Judicial District of Montana in and for County of Rosebud Adoption of Firecrow
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the state action [would infringe] on the right of reservation Indians to make their own laws and be ruled by them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a placement based . . . upon an award, in a divorce proceeding, of custody to one of the parents.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the UCCJA assumes, but does not create, subject matter jurisdiction”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.