Sanders v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
864 F.2d 630 · 1988
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 2007
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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. § 1301 (§ 201 of the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968) · 25 U.S.C. § 1322 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“tribal court had jurisdiction over [a] marriage dissolution action between an Indian plaintiff and a non-Indian defendant residing on the reservation”
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.