Hackford v. Babbitt’s Empirical Analysis
14 F.3d 1457 · 1994
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 16 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Utah v. Babbitt (1998), Bangerter v. Orem City Corp. (1995)
21 federal appellate · 16 district · 1 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 25 U.S.C. § 381 · 25 U.S.C. § 385 · 25 U.S.C. § 389 · 25 U.S.C. § 672 · 25 U.S.C. § 677 · 25 U.S.C. § 677A · 25 U.S.C. § 677D · 25 U.S.C. § 677E
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Warth v. Seldin · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Affiliated Ute Citizens of Utah v. United States · Duke Power Co. v. Carolina Environmental Study Group, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not bound by conclusory allegations, unwarranted inferences, or legal conclusions”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“full-blood” group was comprised of those individuals with at least”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“When the United States set aside and reserved land for the Indians, it also impliedly reserved sufficient water to accomplish the purposes for which the reserva tion was established. Winters, 207 U.S. at 577 , 28 S.Ct. at 212 _ When the reservation land was allotted, and the Project developed, the allottees acquired the right to use a portion of the tribe’s reserved water right with a priority date no later than the creation of the reservation. United States v. Powers, 305 U.S. 527, 532-33 , 59 S.Ct. 344, 346 , 83 L.Ed. 330 (1939). Therefore, Hackford’s right of user, whether derived from the Uintah Band or the Ute tribe, has the same priority date as that delivered through the Project to allotted lands.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.