30 F. Supp. 2d 24 - Cobell v. Babbitt’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 19 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Elouise Pepion Cobell, et al. v. Gale A. Norton, Secretary of the Interior, et al. (2001), 77 F. Supp. 2d 91 - Vanover v. Hantman (1999)
6 federal appellate · 19 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. § 4042 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1361 · 28 U.S.C. § 1491 · 28 U.S.C. § 2401
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Hishon v. King & Spalding · Lujan v. National Wildlife Federation
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An action in a court of the United States seeking relief other than money damages and stating a claim that an agency or an officer or employee thereof acted or failed to act in an official capacity or under color of legal authority shall not be dismissed nor relief therein be denied on the ground that it is against the United States.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(d) Trust responsibilities of Secretary of Interior The Secretary’s proper discharge of the trust responsibilities of the United States shall include (but are not limited to) the following: (1) Providing adequate systems for accounting for and reporting trust fund balances. (2) Providing adequate controls over receipts and disbursements. (3) Providing periodic, timely reconciliations to assure the accuracy of accounts. (4) Determining accurate cash balances. (5) Preparing and supplying account holders with periodic statements of their account performance and with balances of their account which shall be available on a daily basis. (6) Establishing consistent, written policies and procedures for trust fund management and accounting. (7) Providing adequate staffing, supervision, and training for trust fund management and accounting. (8) Appropriately managing the natural resources located within the boundaries of Indian reservations and trust lands.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘[t]hat notwithstanding any other provision of law, the statute of limitations shall not commence to run on any claim concerning losses to or mismanagement of trust funds, until the affected tribe or individual Indian has been furnished with the accounting of such funds[.]’”
2 later decisions 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.