Strate v. A-1 Contractors’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
164 federal appellate · 103 district · 124 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 550 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably El Paso Natural Gas Co. v. Neztsosie (1999), Nevadas v. Floyd Hicks (2001)
164 federal appellate · 103 district · 124 state decisions — followed in 21 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
reviewedA-1 Contractors v. Strate (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. · Williams v. Lee · Montana v. United States · National Farmers Union Insurance Companies 27 v. Crow Tribe of Indians · Washington v. Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indian Reservation
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 550 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To be sure, Indian tribes retain inherent sovereign power to exercise some forms of civil jurisdiction over non-Indians on their reservations, even on non-Indian fee lands. A tribe may regulate, through taxation, licensing, or other means, the activities of nonmembers who enter consensual relationships with the tribe or its members, through commercial dealing, contracts, leases, or other arrangements. A tribe may also retain inherent power to exercise civil authority over the conduct of non-Indians on fee lands within its reservation when that conduct threatens or has some direct effect on the political integrity, the economic security, or the health or welfare of the tribe.”
44 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to punish tribal offenders, ... to determine tribal membership, to regulate domestic relations among members, and to prescribe rules of inheritance for members.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[w]hen ... it is plain that no federal grant provides for tribal governance of nonmembers' conduct on land covered by [the main rule established in Montana v. United States ],'”
8 later decisions 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.