LaPier v. McCormick’s Empirical Analysis
986 F.2d 303 · 1993
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2025
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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. § 1153 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Morton v. Mancari · Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Newman Oil Co. · United States v. Wheeler · United States v. Antelope
Most-quoted passages
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“We need not address ... the question whether LaPier has shown a significant degree of blood and sufficient connection to his tribe to be regarded as one of its members for criminal jurisdiction purposes. There is a simpler threshold question that must be answered first, and in this case it is dispositive: Is the Indian group with which LaPier claims affiliation a federally acknowledged Indian tribe? If the answer is no, the inquiry ends. A defendant whose only claim of membership or affiliation is with an Indian group that is not a federally acknowledged Indian tribe cannot be an Indian for criminal jurisdiction purposes.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the existence of the special relationship between the federal government and the tribe in question that determines whether to subject the individual Indians affiliated with that tribe to exclusive federal jurisdiction for crimes committed in Indian country.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“namely the BIA to determine whether the United States recognizes a particular tribe and cited the BIA's list delineating which Indian tribes are acknowledged by the federal government. Id. Absent evidence of its incompleteness, the court found”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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