94 Wash. 2d 782 - Powell v. Farris’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2019
12 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. § 1322
Relies on Williams v. Lee · McClanahan v. State Tax Commission of Arizona · Moe v. Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation · Washington v. Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indian Reservation · Organized Village of Kake v. Egan
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled that even without the jurisdiction conferred by Congress in Public Law 280, the state may exercise some jurisdiction over some reservation conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'make their own laws and be ruled by them.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.