84 Wash. 2d 192 - Comenout v. Burdman’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2015
15 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 25 U.S.C. § 1323 · 25 U.S.C. § 1326
Relies on 84 Wash. 2d 164 - Tonasket v. State · 57 Wash. 2d 196 - In Re Colwash · 61 Wash. 2d 333 - State v. Bertrand · 57 Wash. 2d 181 - State Ex Rel. Adams v. SUP. CT. FOR OKANOGAN CTY.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The state of Washington hereby obligates and binds itself to assume criminal and civil jurisdiction over Indians and Indian territory, reservations, country, and lands within this state in accordance with the consent of the United States given by the act of August 15, 1953 (Public Law 280, 83rd Congress, 1st Session), but such assumption of jurisdiction shall not apply to Indians when on their tribal lands or allotted lands within an established Indian reservation and held in trust by the United States or subject to a restriction against alienation imposed by the United States, unless the provisions of RCW 37.12.021 [the Indian consent provision] have been invoked, except for the following: (6) Adoption proceedings;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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