79 Wash. 2d 607 - Tonasket v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 5 state decisions

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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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “all Indians and all Indian territory, reservations, country, and lands of the Indian body involved to the same extent that this state exercises civil and criminal jurisdiction or both elsewhere within the state.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 84 Wash. 2d 164 - Tonasket v. State · Confederated Bands & Tribes of the Yakima Indian Nation v. Washington

2. ““It is suggested by the plaintiff that the regulating and taxing of his sales of cigarettes by the state interferes with tribal government. # ;{c % ‡ # “The plaintiff in this case has entered into the commercial life of the community in which he lives. He sells a product manufactured by others, the sale of which the state has found it desirable and necessary to regulate. The plaintiff does not question the right of the state to impose a tax upon the sale of cigarettes generally. But he contends that he should be exempt from the duty of collecting and remitting the tax and should thus enjoy a competitive advantage over nonlndian sellers of cigarettes.” 488 P.2d at 288 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mahoney v. State Tax Commission

3. “Any tribal ordinance or custom heretofore or hereafter adopted by an Indian tribe, band, or community in the exercise of any authority which it may possess shall, if not inconsistent with any applicable civil law of the state, be given full force and effect in the determination of civil causes of action pursuant to this section.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 84 Wash. 2d 164 - Tonasket v. State