UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, APPELLANT,

v.

ROBERT O. FINK, TREASURER, ETC., ET AL.

Citator

Cited By

• Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe, 455 U.S. 130 (U.S. 1982)
  …we persuaded by the dissent that three early decisions upholding tribal power to tax nonmembers support this limitation. Post, at 175-183, discussing Morris v. Hitchcock, 194 U. S. 384 (1904); Buster v. Wright, 135 F. 947 (CA8 1905), appeal dism’d, 203 U. S. 599 (1906); Maxey v. Wright, 3 Ind. T. 243, 247-250, 54 S. W. 807, 809 (Ct. App. Ind. T.), aff’d, 105 F. 1003 (CA8 1900). In discussing these cases, the dissent correctly notes that a hallmark of Indian sovereignty is the power to exclude non-Indians…

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• Washington v. Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indian Reservation, 447 U.S. 134 (U.S. 1980)
  …axes may be attached as conditions.” Ibid, (emphasis added). Federal courts also have acknowledged tribal power to tax non-Indians entering the reservation to engage in economic activity. Buster v. Wright, 135 F. 947, 950 (CA8 1905), appeal dism’d, 203 U. S. 599 (1906); Iron Crow v. Oglala Sioux Tribe, 231 F. 2d 89 (CA8 1956); cf. Morris v. Hitchcock, 194 U. S. 384, 393 (1904). No federal statute cited to us shows any congressional departure from this view. To the contrary, authority to tax the activities o…
• Crow v. The Oglala Sioux Tribe OF the Pine Ridge Reservation, 231 F.2d 89 (8th Cir. 1956)
  …indings that defendants have power and authority to levy taxes on citizens of the United States of America and the State of South Dakota. A similar question was presented to this court in Buster v. Wright, 8 Cir., 1905, 135 F. 947, appeal dismissed 203 U.S. 599, 27 S.Ct. 777, 51 L.Ed. 334. That case involved the validity of a permit tax of the Creek Nation for the privilege which it offered to those who were not citizens of its nation of trading within its borders. In upholding the right of the Creek Natio…