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← 704 F.2d 1085 - People of Territory of Guam v. Quinata

People of Territory of Guam v. Quinata’s Empirical Analysis

704 F.2d 1085 · 1983

Citation profile

28
cited by 28 later decisions
September 1999
most recently cited

19 federal appellate · 2 district ·

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1257 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291

Relies on Abney v. United States · Morton v. Mancari · Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. Cohn · Watt v. Alaska · Posadas v. National City Bank

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.

  1. “an important federal interest in the prompt and definitive resolution of significant issues of Guam law,”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  2. “11 In this respect, this case is distinguishable from Quinata. There, the defendant was charged in juvenile court after the defendant's eighteenth birthday. The juvenile court dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction and the appellate division of the district court reversed and remanded for trial. We held that we had jurisdiction to hear the interlocutory appeal under the fourth Cox Broadcasting exception because inter alia, of the importance of the issue and our”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  3. “firm congressional policy against interlocutory or 'piecemeal' appeals”
    1 later decision 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.