Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians v. Patchak’s Empirical Analysis
567 U.S. 209 · 2012
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 14 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Beck v. McDonald (2017), Patchak v. Zinke (2018)
7 federal appellate · 14 district · 2 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 District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 25 U.S.C. § 465 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2409A · 28 U.S.C. § 2680 · 5 U.S.C. § 701 · 5 U.S.C. § 702 · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · Brown v. General Services Administration · Morton v. Mancari · Clarke v. Securities Industry Assn. · United States v. Fausto
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the zone of interests to be protected or regulated by the statute' that [the plaintiff] says was violated.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“forecloses suit only when a plaintiff's interests are so marginally related to or inconsistent with the purposes implicit in the statute that it cannot reasonably be assumed that Congress authorized the plaintiff to sue.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The APA generally waives the Federal Government's immunity from a suit 'seeking relief other than money damages and stating a claim that an agency or an officer or employee thereof acted or failed to act in an official capacity or under color of legal authority.'”
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.