Abbott Sekaquaptewa, Etc. v. Peter MacDonald Etc., Griffin B. Bell, Etc.’s Empirical Analysis
575 F.2d 239 · 1978
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably Otherson v. Department of Justice, Immigration & Naturalization Service (1983), Central Hudson Gas Electric Corporation v. Empresa Naviera Santa Sa (1995)
23 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Commissioner v. Sunnen · Brown Shoe Co. v. United States · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Hicks v. Miranda
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We affirm the decision to partition the Joint Use Area. That resolution was recommended by the mediator, envisaged by Congress, and has long been seen as the most likely means of fully effectuating the legal rights of the Hopi and resolving this controversy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“boundary issue was not foreclosed by the prior litigation (Healing II ) upon the application of the doctrine of either res judicata or law of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“for the use and occupancy of the Moqui [Hopi] and such other Indians as the Secretary of the Interior may see fit to settle thereon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Indian Tribe v. Zah
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.