Mookini v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
303 U.S. 201 · 1938
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 32 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 133 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2017 · most notably Glidden Company v. Zdanok Lurk (1962), International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union v. Juneau Spruce Corp. (1952)
60 federal appellate · 32 district · 2 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedMookini v. United States (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 48 U.S.C. § 645
Relies on Reynolds v. States · Stephens v. Cherokee Nation · McAllister v. United States · In re Mills · The "City of Panama"
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 133 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[cjourts of the Territories are ... not District Courts of the United States. We have often held that vesting a territorial court with jurisdiction similar to that vested in the District Courts of the United States does not make it a ‘District Court of the United States.’”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“); Stephens v. Cherokee Nation, 174 U. S. 445 , 476-477 (1899) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]ithout an addition expressing a wider connotation,”
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.