Millsap v. Andrus’s Empirical Analysis
717 F.2d 1326 · 1983
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 2025
6 federal appellate · 2 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 Alaska Pacific Fisheries v. United States · Watt v. Western Nuclear, Inc. · McCurdy 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“substances that are mineral in character ( i.e. , that are inorganic), that can be removed from the soil, that can be used for commercial purposes, and that there is no reason to suppose were intended to be included in the surface estate”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the general rule that statutes passed for the benefit of dependent Indian tribes . . . are to be liberally construed [with] doubtful expressions being resolved in favor of the Indians.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“inorganic substances that can be removed from the soil and used for commercial purposes.”
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.