tribe
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 555 U.S. 379 - Carcieri v. Salazar · 2009Most cited · 454 citing opinions
Indian," the definition of "Indian" must control which groups can be considered a "tribe," is entirely circular.
How often courts cite the case defining “tribe”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “tribe” — 454 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.