Cobell v. Salazar’s Empirical Analysis
573 F.3d 808 · 2009
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district ·
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 25 U.S.C. § 162A · 25 U.S.C. § 331 (White Earth Reservation Land Settlement Act of 1985) · 25 U.S.C. § 4011 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292
Relies on Hecht Co. v. Bowles · Hodel v. Irving · Elouise Pepion Cobell, et al. v. Gale A. Norton, Secretary of the Interior, et al. · Babbitt v. Youpee · Cobell v. Babbitt
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not disappear from the process of reviewing an agency's interpretation of those statutes it is trusted to administer for the benefit of the Indians, although that deference applies with muted effect,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“statutes are to be construed liberally in favor of the Indians, with ambiguous provisions interpreted to their benefit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a court] cannot ignore the responsibility of the agency for careful stewardship of limited government resources.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.