McClendon v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
885 F.2d 627 · 1989
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 13 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Makah Indian Tribe v. Verity (1990), Kizis v. Morse Diesel International, Inc. (2002)
27 federal appellate · 13 district · 15 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on United States v. Testan · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez · Federal Energy Administration v. Algonquin SNG, Inc. · Heckman 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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a tribe's waiver of sovereign immunity may be limited to the issues necessary to decide the action brought by the tribe; the waiver is not necessarily broad enough to encompass related matters, even if those matters arise from the same set of underlying facts.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Initiation of a lawsuit necessarily establishes [tribal] consent to the court's adjudication of the merits of that particular controversy.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The issue of tribal sovereign immunity is jurisdictional in nature.”
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.