Catawba Indian Tribe South Carolina v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
982 F.2d 1564 · 1993
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Henke v. United States (1995), Martinez v. United States (2003)
17 federal appellate · 5 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
Relies on Irwin v. Department of Veterans Affairs · Vandygriff v. Phillips · Hannahville Indian Community v. United States · Glus v. Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal · United States v. Dickinson
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the Supreme Court’s pronouncement in 1986 might be relevant to fixing the time when the Tribe subjectively first knew what the Act meant, it is fundamental jurisprudence that the Act’s objective meaning and effect were fixed when the Act was adopted. Any later judicial pronouncements simply explain, but do not create, the operative effect.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the same rebuttable presumption of equitable tolling applicable to suits against private defendants should also apply to suits against the United States”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As noted, a traditional ground for equitable tolling of a statute of limitations is based on the avoidance of penalizing a plaintiff simply because under the circumstances plaintiff did not and could not have known of the facts upon which the claim is based.”
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.