Weddell v. Meierhenry’s Empirical Analysis
636 F.2d 211 · 1980
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably United States v. Cordero (1981), State of Alaska Yukon Flats School District
38 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1151 (Indian Crimes Act of 1976) · 18 U.S.C. § 1154 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Griffin v. California · Lockett v. Ohio · Gerstein v. Pugh · Frisbie v. Collins · Castor 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the nature of the area in question, the relationship of the inhabitants of the area to Indian tribes and to the federal government, and the established practice of government agencies toward the area,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an element of cohesiveness ... manifested either by economic pursuits in the area, common interests, or needs of the inhabitants as supplied by that locality,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'whether such lands have been set apart for the use, occupancy and protection of dependent Indian peoples.'”
3 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.