Little Earth of United Tribes, Inc. v. United States Department of Housing & Urban Development’s Empirical Analysis
807 F.2d 1433 · 1986
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 7 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Mosley v. City of Northwoods (2005), Atkinson v. City of Mountain View (2013)
55 federal appellate · 7 district · 5 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 12 U.S.C. § 1713 · 12 U.S.C. § 1715 · 12 U.S.C. § 1715Z · 42 U.S.C. § 1441 (Housing Act of 1949) · 5 U.S.C. § 701 · 5 U.S.C. § 702
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Arizona v. California · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance v. Russell
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... Law of the case is a doctrine of discretion, not a command to the courts. The doctrine provides that when a court decides upon a rule of law, that decision should continue to govern the same issues in subsequent stages in the same case. The doctrine prevents the relit-igation of settled issues in a case, thus protecting the settled expectations of the parties, ensuring uniformity of decisions, and promoting judicial efficiency.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[l]aw of the ease is a doctrine of discretion, not a command to the courts. The doctrine provides that “when a court decides upon a rule of law, that decision should continue to govern the same issues in subsequent stages of the same case.” The doctrine prevents the relitigation of settled issues in a case, thus protection the settled expectations of parties, ensuring uniformity of decisions, and promoting judicial efficiency. Accordingly, we will reconsider a previously decided issue only if substantially different evidence is subsequently introduced or the decision is clearly erroneous and works manifest injustice.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“prevent[ ] the relitigation of settled issues in a case, thus protecting the settled expectations of parties, ensuring uniformity of decisions, and promoting judicial efficiency.”
3 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.