Tom v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis
533 F.2d 1101 · 1976
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Poodry v. Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians (1996), Bird v. Glacier Electric Cooperative, Inc. (2001)
22 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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.
Relationships
Applies 25 U.S.C. § 1302 (§ 202 of the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968) · 25 U.S.C. § 476 · 8 U.S.C. § 1401 (§ 301 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · United States v. American Trucking Associations · Argersinger v. Hamlin · McClanahan v. State Tax Commission of Arizona · Ullmann v. United States
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(6) deny to any person in a criminal proceeding the right to a speedy and public trial, to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation, to be confronted with the witnesses against him, to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and at his own expense to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.” [Emphasis supplied.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress in enacting the Indian Bill of Rights did not intend to require the Indian tribal courts to provide counsel for indigent defendants in criminal cases.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“courts have been careful to construe the term [ ] 'due process' . . . with due regard for the historical, governmental and cultural values of an Indian tribe”
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.