Kain v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 1998
2 federal appellate · 6 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) · 25 U.S.C. § 229
Relies on Williams v. Lee · Patterson v. Medberry · Seymour v. Superintendent of Washington State Penitentiary · Littell v. Nakai · Smith v. Temple
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]ur state courts have no jurisdiction to hear and determine a civil action for the alleged wrongful use and possession of land located in Indian Country by a tribal Indian defendant. To impose state law and state jurisdiction in this controversy would infringe upon the Pine Ridge Reservation Indians' right and power to make their own laws and be governed by them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Risse v. Meeks
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.