Blatchford v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
904 F.2d 542 · 1990
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Ross v. Neff (1990), Pittsburg & Midway Coal Mining Co. v. Watchman (1995)
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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) · 18 U.S.C. § 1153 · 18 U.S.C. § 1154
Relies on United States v. Felipe Sandoval · United States v. John · United States v. McGowan · United States v. Azure · Smith v. Kemp
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Thus, our first factor is "whether the United States has retained `title to the lands which it permits the Indians to occupy' and `authority to enact regulations and protective laws respecting this territory.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, (1975) defines a community as 'a unified body of individuals ... with common interests living in a particular area; ... an interacting population of various kinds of individuals in a common location.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all Indian allotments, the Indian titles to which have not been extinguished, including rights-of-way running through the same.”
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.