Felter v. Kempthorne’s Empirical Analysis
473 F.3d 1255 · 2007
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 15 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Mendoza v. Perez (2014), Earle v. District of Columbia (2012)
11 federal appellate · 15 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. § 461 · 25 U.S.C. § 672 · 25 U.S.C. § 677 · 25 U.S.C. § 677A · 25 U.S.C. § 677I · 28 U.S.C. § 2401 · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Irwin v. Department of Veterans Affairs · Pace v. Superintendent State Correctional Institution at Graterford · Kamen v. Kemper Financial Services, Inc. · Elder Holloway et al · Jerome Stevens Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Food & Drug Administration
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“notwithstanding any other provision of law, the statute of limitations shall not commence to run on any claim, including any claim in litigation pending on the date of the enactment of this Act, concerning losses to or mismanagement of trust funds, until the affected tribe or individual Indian has been furnished with an accounting of such funds from which the beneficiary can determine whether there has been a loss.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Except as provided by the Contract Disputes Act of 1978, every civil action commenced against the United States shall be barred unless the complaint is filed within six years after the right of action first accrues. The action of any person under legal disability or beyond the seas at the time the claim accrues may be commenced within three years after the disability ceases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hardin v. Jackson“'Accrue' is not defined but '[a]ctions usually accrue when they come into existence.'”
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.