St. Cloud v. United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• 15/32 of Yankton Sioux blood considered sufficient to satisfy the first requirement of having a degree of Indian blood
• “Congress’ goal in passing the Major Crimes Act clearly was to prevent lawlessness in Indian lands and to plug gaps in criminal jurisdiction.”
• state courts cannot have jurisdiction of crimes by non-Indians against an Indian
• 15/32 of Indian blood satisfied requirement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).