Mitchell v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
591 F.2d 1300 · 1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1992 · most notably United States v. Mitchell (1983), United States v. Mitchell (1980)
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Applies 25 U.S.C. § 162A · 25 U.S.C. § 331 (White Earth Reservation Land Settlement Act of 1985) · 25 U.S.C. § 348 · 25 U.S.C. § 349 · 25 U.S.C. § 406 · 25 U.S.C. § 413 · 25 U.S.C. § 462 · 25 U.S.C. § 466
Relies on United States v. Testan · Affiliated Ute Citizens of Utah v. United States · Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission · United States v. King · National Labor Relations Board v. Bell Aerospace 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The Court of Claims shall have jurisdiction of any claim against the United States accruing after August 13, 1946, in favor of any tribe, band, or other identifiable group of American Indians residing within the territorial limits of the United States or Alaska whenever such claim is one arising under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States, or Executive orders of the President, or is one which otherwise would be cognizable in the Court of Claims if the claimant were not an Indian tribe, band or group.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“hold the land . . . in trust for the sole use and benefit of the”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The Court of Claims shall have jurisdiction to render judgment upon any claim against the United States founded either upon the Constitution, or any Act of Congress, or any regulation of an executive department, or upon any express or implied contract with the United States, or for liquidated or unliquidated damages in cases not sounding in tort.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.