Han’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2018
4 district · 3 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
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Papasan v. Allain
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Admission Act”), provided, "as a compact with the United States,” that the [HHCA] would be "adopted as a provision of the Constitution of [Hawai'i], ... subject to amendment or repeal only with the consent of the United States.” Section 5(b) of the Admission Act transferred title to the home lands [as well as the ceded lands] to the State of Ha-wai'i. Section 5(f) provided that these lands would "be held by said State as a public trust” for specified purposes, and "their use for any other object shall constitute a breach of trust for which suit may be brought by the United States.” Han v. United States Dept. of Justice, 45 F.3d 333 , 335 (9th Cir.1995). See also Pele Defense Fund v. Paty, 73 Haw. 578, 585-86 , 837 P.2d 1247, 1253-54 (1992), cert. denied, 507 U.S. 918 , 113 S.Ct. 1277 , 122 L.Ed.2d 671 (1993) (providing a brief description of the "ceded lands” and listing the five purposes identified in section 5(f) of the Admission Act); Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs v. Yamasaki, 69 Haw. 154, 159-64 , 737 P.2d 446, 449-52 , cert. denied, 484 U.S. 898 , 108 S.Ct. 234 , 98 L.Ed.2d 192 (1987) (describing the evolution of the "ceded lands”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bush v. Watson“As a compact with the United States relating to the management and disposition of the Hawaiian home lands, the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, as amended, shall be adopted as a provision of the Constitution of [the State of Hawaii] [.] (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Mandamus may lie if statutory or regulatory standards delimiting the scope or manner in which such discretion can be exercised ... have been ignored or violated, or if the federal defendants failed entirely to carry out statutory purposes.”
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.