United States v. Suquamish Indian Tribe’s Empirical Analysis
901 F.2d 772 · 1990
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Greene v. United States (1993), Burlington Northern Railroad Company v. Department of Revenue of State of Washington (1991)
24 federal appellate · 2 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 Washington v. Washington State Commercial Passenger Fishing Vessel Assn. · Hoptowit v. Ray · United States v. Washington · United States v. Washington · United States v. Washington
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not think of a more comprehensive and complex case than”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A reference to a master shall be the exception and not the rule.... [I]n actions to be tried without a jury ... a reference shall be made only upon a showing that some exceptional condition requires it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]t the time of the Treaty of Point Elliott, [the Suquamish] did not fish in those areas, which were the usual and accustomed fishing places of the Duwamish.”
2 later decisions 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.