White Mountain Apache Tribe v. State of Arizona Department of Game and Fish Confederated Tribes of Colville Indian Reservation’s Empirical Analysis
649 F.2d 1274 · 1981
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Wyatt v. Terhune (2003), Rj Williams Company v. Fort Belknap Housing Authority (1983)
18 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 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 Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez · United States v. Wheeler · Williams v. Lee · Montana v. United States · McClanahan v. State Tax Commission of Arizona
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court may remand a case to the district court for further consideration when new cases or laws that are likely to influence the decision have become effective after the initial consideration.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Wyatt v. Terhune · Wyatt v. Terhune“firm federal policy of promoting tribal self-sufficiency and economic development.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The tradition of Indian sovereignty over the reservation and tribal members must inform the determination whether the exercise of state authority has been pre-empted by operation of federal law.”
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.