John v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Prairie Band of Potawatomi Indians v. Pierce (2001), Todd v. Bear Valley Village Apartments (1999)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 42 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. § 1152 · 18 U.S.C. § 1153 · 18 U.S.C. § 1162 · 25 U.S.C. § 1302 (§ 202 of the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968) · 25 U.S.C. § 1901 (§ 2 of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978) · 25 U.S.C. § 1903 (§ 4 of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978) · 25 U.S.C. § 1911 (§ 101 of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978)
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Burger King Corporation v. Rudzewicz · Milliken v. Meyer · Bolling v. Sharpe
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n determining whether tribes retain their sovereign powers, the United States Supreme Court looks to the character of the power that the tribe seeks to exercise, not merely the location of events.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[c]ourts must resolve ambiguities in statutes affecting the rights of Native Americans in favor of Native Americans.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“exercising our independent judgment, we will adopt the rule of law that is most persuasive in light of precedent, reason, and policy.”
3 later decisions 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.