Mitchell v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Shoshone Indian Tribe of the Wind River Reservation v. States (2004), White Mountain Apache Tribe v. United States (2001)
3 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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. § 161A · 25 U.S.C. § 162A · 25 U.S.C. § 318A · 25 U.S.C. § 325 · 25 U.S.C. § 349 · 25 U.S.C. § 406 · 25 U.S.C. § 407 · 25 U.S.C. § 466
Relies on United States v. Testan · Califano v. Sanders · United States v. Sherwood · Brown v. General Services Administration · United States v. Mitchell
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny restricted Indian lands, whether tribally or individually owned, may be leased by the Indian owners, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for public, religious, educational, recreational, residential, or business purposes ... and all leases and renewals shall be made under such terms and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“are not entitled, however, to such interest on any unpaid amounts they may now recover in the present suit.... Those [unpaid] sums or their equivalent were never held by the Government for plaintiffs, were not subject to the specific interest provisions ... and there is no statute awarding back-interest on such unpaid compensation now awarded by the court in this suit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.