Golden Hill Paugussett Tribe of Indians v. Weicker’s Empirical Analysis
39 F.3d 51 · 1994
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 17 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably City of Waterbury v. Town of Washington (2002), Irish Lesbian & Gay Organization v. Giuliani (1998)
26 federal appellate · 17 district · 12 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 25 U.S.C. § 1 · 25 U.S.C. § 177 · 25 U.S.C. § 479 · 25 U.S.C. § 71 · 25 U.S.C. § 9
Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · United States v. Western Pacific Railroad · Far East Conference v. United States · County of Oneida New York v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York State New York
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A federal agency and a district court are not like two trains, wholly unrelated to one another, racing down parallel tracks towards the same end.... [I]t is desirable that the agency and the court go down the same track—although at different times—to attain the statute's ends by their coordinate action.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“consistency and uniformity in the regulation of an area which Congress has entrusted to a federal agency.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) it is an Indian tribe, (2) the land [claimed to have been alienated in violation of the Act] is tribal land, (3) the United States has never consented to or approved the alienation of this tribal land, and (4) the trust relationship between the United States and the tribe has not been terminated or abandoned.”
3 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.