California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
357 federal appellate · 159 district · 340 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,220 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida (1996), Oklahoma Tax Commission v. Citizen Band Potawatomi Indian Tribe of Oklahoma (1991)
357 federal appellate · 159 district · 340 state decisions — followed in 19 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
reviewedCabazon Band of Mission Indians v. County of Riverside (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · United States v. Mazurie · McClanahan v. State Tax Commission of Arizona · Ohio State Board of Education v. Reed · White Mountain Apache Tribe v. Bracker
Cited together with Washington v. Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indian Reservation · McClanahan v. State Tax Commission of Arizona · New Mexico v. Mescalero Apache Tribe · Bryan v. Itasca County · White Mountain Apache Tribe v. Bracker
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 1,220 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“plainly was not intended to effect total assimilation of Indian tribes into mainstream American society.”
83 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Oklahoma Tax Commission v. Citizen Band Potawatomi Indian Tribe of Oklahoma · Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma, an Organized Tribe of Indians, as Recognized Under and by the Laws of the United States v. State of Oklahoma Ex Rel. David L. Thompson, the Duly Elected District Attorney of Ottawa County, Oklahoma, Bob Sills, the Duly Elected Sheriff of Ottawa County, Oklahoma Jon D. Douthitt, Associate District Judge for the 13th Judicial Administrative District of Oklahoma, Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma, a Federally Recognized Indian Tribe Jesse McKibben Chairman of Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma v. State of Oklahoma Ex Rel. David L. Thompson, District Attorney of Ottawa County, Morland T. Barton, Assistant District Attorney of Ottawa County Bob Sills, the Duly Elected Sheriff of Ottawa County, Oklahoma Jon D. Douthitt, Judge of the District Court of Ottawa County“Each of the States or Territories listed in the following table shall have jurisdiction over offenses committed by or against Indians in the areas of Indian country listed opposite the name of the State or Territory to the same extent that such State or Territory has jurisdiction over offenses committed elsewhere within the State or Territory, and the criminal laws of such State or Territory shall have the same force and effect within such Indian country as they have elsewhere within the State or Territory: State or Territory of Wisconsin Indian country affected All Indian country within the State”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Here the Tribes are not merely importing a product onto the reservations for immediate resale to non-Indians. They have built modern facilities which provide recreational opportunities and ancillary services to their patrons, who do not simply drive onto the reservations, make purchases and depart, but spend extended periods of time there enjoying the services the Tribes provide. The Tribes have a strong incentive to provide comfortable, clean, and attractive facilities and well-run games in order to increase attendance at the games_ [T]he Ca-bazon and Morongo Bands are generating value on the reservations through activities in which they have a substantial interest.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma, an Organized Tribe of Indians, as Recognized Under and by the Laws of the United States v. State of Oklahoma Ex Rel. David L. Thompson, the Duly Elected District Attorney of Ottawa County, Oklahoma, Bob Sills, the Duly Elected Sheriff of Ottawa County, Oklahoma Jon D. Douthitt, Associate District Judge for the 13th Judicial Administrative District of Oklahoma, Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma, a Federally Recognized Indian Tribe Jesse McKibben Chairman of Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma v. State of Oklahoma Ex Rel. David L. Thompson, District Attorney of Ottawa County, Morland T. Barton, Assistant District Attorney of Ottawa County Bob Sills, the Duly Elected Sheriff of Ottawa County, Oklahoma Jon D. Douthitt, Judge of the District Court of Ottawa County · Gila River Indian Community v. Waddell
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.