Littlewolf v. Lujan’s Empirical Analysis
877 F.2d 1058 · 1989
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Narragansett Indian Tribe v. National Indian Gaming Commission (1998), 30 F. Supp. 2d 24 - Cobell v. Babbitt (1998)
12 federal appellate · 8 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 25 U.S.C. § 331 (White Earth Reservation Land Settlement Act of 1985) · 25 U.S.C. § 372 · 25 U.S.C. § 462 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1491 · 28 U.S.C. § 2501
Relies on Vandygriff v. Phillips · Morton v. Mancari · Hannahville Indian Community v. United States · Blanchette v. Connecticut General Insurance Corporations · Rostker v. Goldberg
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.
“[e]ven if we assume arguendo that the six-month limitations period is unreasonably short and that, as a consequence, the Act effectively ‘takes’ the Band members’ property rights, we conclude that the statute provides the Indians with just compensation”); cf. Michel v. INS, 206 F.3d 253 , 260 n. 4 (2d Cir.2000) (”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“find[ing] it unnecessary to address the difficult questions raised by appellants regarding the Due Process adequacy of the period provided by the Act”
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.