Williams v. Gover’s Empirical Analysis
490 F.3d 785 · 2007
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2021
5 federal appellate · 4 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 5 U.S.C. § 551 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946)
Relies on Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez · Hopland Band of Pomo Indians v. United States · Boff v. Burney · Duncan v. United States · 229 Ct. Cl. 120 - Duncan v. United States
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the landless, homeless or penurious state of many California Indians”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[the Tribe] had the power to squeeze the plaintiffs out, because it has the power to define its own membership. It did not need the BIA's permission and did not ask for it....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rabang v. Kelly“A tribe's right to define its own membership for tribal purposes has long been recognized as central to its existence as an independent political community.”
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.