Nome Eskimo Community v. Babbitt’s Empirical Analysis
67 F.3d 813 · 1995
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 2019
13 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2409A · 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 43 U.S.C. § 1331 (Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006)
Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Native Village of Noatak v. Blatchford · Headwaters, Inc. v. Bureau of Land Management · Village of Gambell v. Babbitt · Gemtel Corp. v. Community Redevelopment Agency
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mootness, like the related doctrine of standing, restricts judicial power to the decision of cases and controversies, so that our elected government retains the general power to establish social policy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We must vacate the substantive determination [of the district court], without intimating any view on whether it was correct, because mootness precluded the exercise of judicial power.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“had been canceled for lack of bids, and that there was no immediate prospect of another, similar lease sale,”
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.