Nevadas v. Floyd Hicks’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
226 federal appellate · 108 district · 196 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 718 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Plains Commerce Bank v. Long Family Land & Cattle Co. (2008), United States v. Lara (2004)
226 federal appellate · 108 district · 196 state decisions — followed in 22 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 1715Z · 18 U.S.C. § 1162 · 25 U.S.C. § 1301 (§ 201 of the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968) · 25 U.S.C. § 1302 (§ 202 of the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968) · 25 U.S.C. § 1911 (§ 101 of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978) · 25 U.S.C. § 2804 · 25 U.S.C. § 2806 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez · California v. Acevedo
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 718 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]tate sovereignty does not end at a reservation's border.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that conduct threatens or has some direct effect on the political integrity, the economic security, or the health or welfare of the tribe.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The ownership status of land ... is only one factor to consider in determining whether regulation of the activities of nonmembers is 'necessary to protect tribal self-government or to control internal relations.'”
7 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.