Crawford’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 15 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Ninigret Development Corp. v. Narragansett Indian Wetuomuck Housing Authority (2000), Drumm v. Brown (1998)
6 federal appellate · 15 district · 5 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 National Farmers Union Insurance Companies 27 v. Crow Tribe of Indians · Iowa Mutual Insurance v. LaPlante · Stock West, Inc. v. Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation · Burlington Northern Railroad v. Crow Tribal Council · Wellman v. Chevron U.S.A., Inc.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The requirement of exhaustion of tribal remedies is not discretionary; it is mandatory”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The requirement of exhaustion of tribal remedies is not discretionary; it is mandatory. If deference is called for, the district court may not relieve the parties from exhausting tribal remedies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hether proceedings are actually pending in the appropriate tribal court is irrelevant”
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.