498 U.S. 505 (1991) Cited 626 times 10 Legal Analyses
Holding that states have a right to collect taxes on certain cigarette sales on an Indian reservation, but the tribe is immune from suit seeking to enforce that right
465 U.S. 463 (1984) Cited 234 times 5 Legal Analyses
Holding that because the defendant, who was an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, committed a crime on reservation grounds, the state did not have criminal jurisdiction over him
420 U.S. 425 (1975) Cited 285 times 1 Legal Analyses
Holding that the reservation was terminated where there was express language regarding termination, a sum-certain payment, and tribal consent to the agreement
Holding that if a “district court's ruling on one claim necessarily precludes an alternative or mutually exclusive claim, a final order will arise despite the lack of an explicit declaration by the district court”
Striking "affirmative defenses [that were] . . . inadequately pled under pre-Twombly case law since . . . they do not give fair notice of what is being alleged . . . . are nothing more than statements that do not provide fair notice to the plaintiff."
Holding that the Yankton Sioux Reservation "has been further diminished by the loss of those land originally allotted to tribal members which have passed out of Indian hands."