Danks v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
696 F.2d 572 · 1982
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 25 U.S.C. § 393 · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Federal Communications Commission v. National Citizens Committee for Broadcasting · Geders v. United States · Oglala Sioux Tribe of Indians v. Andrus · First National Bank Of Fayetteville v. James E. Smith
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the [BIA] Area Director set th[e] deadline and made it an explicit term of each permit he issued[, the BIA was] not ... free to ignore the[ ] terms simply because [it] found them to be inconvenient.”
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.