United States v. Tohono O’odham Nation’s Empirical Analysis
563 U.S. 307 · 2011
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably 59 Cal. 4th 348 - Iskanian v. CLS Transportation Los Angeles, LLC (2014), Lovell v. Brennan (1984)
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Federal Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1491 · 28 U.S.C. § 1500 · 5 U.S.C. § 702
Relies on Commissioner v. Sunnen · United States v. Mitchell · Kremer v. Chemical Construction Corp. · United States v. King · Marrese v. American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Courts should not render statutes nugatory through construction.”
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.