Gale v. Andrus’s Empirical Analysis
643 F.2d 826 · 1980
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Lawrence M. Fleming v. Department of Public Safety, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (1988), Wabol v. Villacrusis (1990)
22 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 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 South Dakota v. Nebraska · Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · Pickus v. United States Board of Parole · Ralpho v. Bell · Porter v. United States
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the laws of the United States do not automatically apply to the Territory unless they are specifically made applicable by Congress.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. 50 Fair empl.prac.cas. 714, 50 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 39,202 Edward Temengil Justin Manglona Hiromi Rdiall Fred Heine Manuel Sablan Ramon Rechebei Charles Muller, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees/cross-Appellants v. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Janet McCoy High Commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands United States Department of the Interior Manuel Lujon, Jr., Secretary of the Interior United States of America, Defendants-Appellants/cross-Appellees · Temengil“promote the development of the inhabitants of the trust territory toward self-government or independence,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Congress must manifest an intent either within the statute or in the legislative history to include the Trust Territory [within the reach of a statute] for it to be covered.”
2 later decisions 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.