People of the State of California Ex Rel. California Department of Fish and Game v. The Quechan Tribe of Indians, People of the State of California Ex Rel. California Department of Fish Andgame v. The Quechan Tribe of Indians’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Pit River Home and Agricultural Cooperative Association v. United States Pit River Tribal Council (1994), Pit River Home & Agricultural Cooperative Ass'n v. United States (1994)
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 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
Relies on United States v. King · Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez · United States v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Puyallup Tribe, Inc. v. Department of Game of Washington · New York v. Penn Central Transportation Co.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Each of the States ... shall have jurisdiction over offenses committed by or against Indians in the areas of Indian country ... to the same extent that such State... has jurisdiction over offenses committed elsewhere within the State ..., and the criminal laws of such State ... shall have the same force and effect within such Indian country as they have elsewhere within the State....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]either the express terms of [Public Law 280], nor the Congressional history of the statute, reveal any intention by Congress for it to serve as a waiver of a Tribe's sovereign immunity”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Sovereign immunity involves a right which courts have no choice, in the absence of a waiver, but to recognize.”
1 later decision 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.