United States v. Big Eagle’s Empirical Analysis
881 F.2d 539 · 1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently February 2015
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 16 U.S.C. § 3371 (Big Cat Public Safety Act) · 16 U.S.C. § 3372 · 18 U.S.C. § 1151 (Indian Crimes Act of 1976)
Relies on Montana v. United States · New Mexico v. Mescalero Apache Tribe · United States v. Sohappy · Lower Brule Sioux Tribe v. South Dakota · Greywater v. Joshua
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Enforcement of these laws is important both to ensure that endangered species are not further threatened with extinction, and to afford management of healthy wildlife populations for hunting and other recreational purposes * * * S. 736 would not constitute a broadening of federal authority under the Act, but merely would allow the federal government to provide more adequate support for the full range of state, foreign, and federal laws that protect wildlife.”
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.