Western Shoshone National Council v. Molini’s Empirical Analysis
951 F.2d 200 · 1991
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Bonin v. Calderon (1995), Nugget Hydroelectric Lp v. Pacific Gas and Electric Company (1992)
10 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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. § 70 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1362
Relies on In re Disbarment of Johnson · Mann v. Koob · Gozlon-Peretz v. United States · Kruso v. International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. · Brendale v. Confederated Tribes & Bands of the Yakima Indian Nation
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the award in [the ICC litigation] constituted a general determination of title which bar[red] the Shoshone from asserting title against the State of Nevada.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“by the gradual encroachment by whites, settlers, and others, and the acquisition, disposition or taking of their lands by the United States”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“cede, surrender, grant, and convey to the United States all their claim, right, title, and interest”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.