White Eagle v. One Feather’s Empirical Analysis
478 F.2d 1311 · 1973
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 1998 · most notably Means v. Wilson (1975), Dry Creek Lodge, Inc. v. United States (1975)
25 federal appellate · 9 district ·
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. § 1302 (§ 202 of the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968) · 28 U.S.C. § 1343
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Reynolds v. Sims · Carroll v. President & Commissioners of Princess Anne · Mahan v. Howell · Roman v. Sincock
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The reservation Indian now has no Constitutional rights. The purpose of the amendment is to give these Indians constitutional rights which other Americans enjoy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Here, then, we have no problem of forcing an alien culture, with strange procedures, on this tribe. What the plaintiffs seek is merely a fair compliance with the tribe’s own voting procedures in accordance with the principles of Baker v. Carr, supra, and subsequent cases. The language of the equal protection clause in the Act is clear, its meaning (in this context) is clear, its employment subsequent to the decision in Baker v. Carr, supra, has its own significance, and we can find nothing (and have been cited to nothing) in the legislative history of the Act, or, indeed, the tribal customs and culture manifesting the inapplicability of the principle.” 478 F.2d 1314 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'apply broadly such elusive and expanding concepts as due process . . . without sensitive regard for their impact on tribal structures and values.”
1 later decision 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.