United States v. Hohri’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
212 federal appellate · 798 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,274 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Salve Regina College v. Russell (1991), Christianson v. Colt Industries Operating Corp. (1988)
212 federal appellate · 798 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Blue Chip Stamps v. Manor Drug Stores · Kelly v. Robinson · Eastport Steamship Corp. v. United States
Cited together with Kokkonen v. Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America · Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Insurance Corp. of Ireland v. Compagnie Des Bauxites De Guinee · Hohri v. United States · Conley v. Gibson
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 1,274 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“appeal from a final decision of a district court ... if the jurisdiction of that court was based, in whole or in part, on section 1346....”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ny ... civil action or claim against the United States, not exceeding $ 10,000 in amount, founded either upon the Constitution, or any Act of Congress, or any regulation of an executive department, or upon any express or implied contract with the United States, or for liquidated or unliquidated damages in cases not sounding in tort.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“mixed case presenting both a nontax Little Tucker Act claim and [a claim not within the Federal Circuit's exclusive jurisdiction], may be appealed only to the Federal Circuit.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.