Duro v. Reina’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
184 federal appellate · 72 district · 146 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 523 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Nevadas v. Floyd Hicks (2001), Negonsott v. Samuels (1993)
184 federal appellate · 72 district · 146 state decisions — followed in 15 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
reviewedDuro v. Reina (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Morton v. Mancari · Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez · 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 523 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is governed by a complex patchwork of federal, state, and tribal law”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the retained sovereignty of the tribes is that needed to control their own internal relations, and to preserve their own unique customs and social order [and].... to prescribe and enforce rules of conduct for [their] own members”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where jurisdiction to try and punish an offender rests outside the tribe, tribal officers may exercise their power to detain the offender and transport him to the proper authorities.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.