Peabody Coal Company v. Navajo Nation’s Empirical Analysis
373 F.3d 945 · 2004
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2021
4 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Franchise Tax Board of the State of California v. Construction Laborers Vacation Trust for Southern California · Aetna Life Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Haworth · National Farmers Union Insurance Companies 27 v. Crow Tribe of Indians · United States v. Navajo Nation · Morongo Band of Mission Indians v. Rose
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether the [tribe] is somehow in breach of this award is an issue that can be resolved by the common law of contracts. Federal approval of the underlying leases or amendments has no material bearing on whether this award requires confirmation or enforcement. Therefore, [the coal company’s] complaint does not present a federal question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“For a case to 'arise under' federal law, a plaintiff's well-pleaded complaint must establish either (1) that federal law creates the cause of action or (2) that the plaintiff's asserted right to relief depends on the resolution of a substantial question of federal law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is not, by itself, sufficient to raise a federal question.”
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.