Price v. Akaka’s Empirical Analysis
3 F.3d 1220 · 1993
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2010 · most notably Grossman v. City of Portland (1994), Schmier v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (2002)
12 federal appellate · 7 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Maine v. Thiboutot · Kashif v. United States · Suter v. Artist M.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[1] for the support of the public schools and other public educational institutions, [2] for the betterment of the conditions of native Hawaiians, as defined in the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, as amended, [3] for the development of farm and home ownership on- as widespread a basis as possible!,] [4] for the making of public improvements, and [5] for the provision of lands for public use.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“decisions in Keaukaha II, 739 F.2d at 1472 , and Akaka I, holding that beneficiaries of the public trust created by Congress may bring a § 1983 claim[,] are consistent with the Supreme Court’s decision in Suter. Congress enacted the Admission Act, a federal public trust, which by its nature creates a federally enforceable right for its beneficiaries to maintain an action against the trustee in breach of the trust.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]ny descendant of not less than one-half part of the races inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands previous to 1778, as defined by the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, amended; provided the term identically refers to the descendants of such blood quantum of such aboriginal peoples which exercised sovereignty and subsisted in the Hawaiian Islands in 1778 and which peoples thereafter continued to reside in Hawaii.”
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.