Taniguchi v. Kan Pacific Saipan, Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis
566 U.S. 560 · 2012
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 5 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 136 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably 138 S. Ct. 2105 - Pereira v. Sessions (2018), Marx v. General Revenue Corp. (2013)
28 federal appellate · 5 district · 9 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 Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1827 · 28 U.S.C. § 1920 · 28 U.S.C. § 530C · 8 U.S.C. § 1555
Relies on Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Crawford Fitting Company v. Jt Gibbons Inc Champion International Corporation · Gustafson v. Alloyd Co. · Mallard v. United States Dist. Court for Southern Dist. of Iowa · Fleischmann Distilling Corp. v. Maier Brewing Co.
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 136 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a term goes undefined in a statute, we give the term its ordinary meaning.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a definition [being] broad enough to encompass one sense of a word does not establish that the word is ordinarily understood in that sense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although costs has an everyday meaning synonymous with expenses, the concept of taxable costs ... is more limited.... Taxable costs are limited to relatively minor, incidental expenses[;] ... such items as clerk fees, court reporter fees, expenses for printing and witnesses, expenses for exemplification and copies, docket fees, and compensation of court-appointed experts.... Taxable costs are a fraction of the nontaxable expenses borne by litigants for attorneys, experts, consultants, and investigators.”
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.