Cass County, Minnesota, et al. v. Leech Lake Band of Chippewa Indians’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 10 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably City of Sherrill New York v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York et al. (2005), Michigan v. Bay Mills Indian Community (2014)
28 federal appellate · 10 district · 23 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedLeech Lake Band of Chippewa Indians v. Cass County (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 25 U.S.C. § 177 · 25 U.S.C. § 331 (White Earth Reservation Land Settlement Act of 1985) · 25 U.S.C. § 348 · 25 U.S.C. § 349 · 25 U.S.C. § 461 · 25 U.S.C. § 465
Relies on Mescalero Apache Tribe v. Jones · Montana v. Blackfeet Tribe of Indians · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. v. Epstein · County of Yakima v. Confederated Tribes and Bands of Yakima Indian Nation Confederated Tribes and Bands of Yakima Indian Nation · In re Heff
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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and later reacquired by an Indian tribe.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When Congress makes Indian reservation land freely alienable, it manifests an unmistakably clear intent to render such land subject to state and local taxation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“permit the Indian to dispose of his lands as he pleases, while at the same time releasing it [sic] from taxation.”
2 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.