215 F. Supp. 2d 55 - Rasul v. Bush’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 55 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1350 (Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991) · 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 5 U.S.C. § 555 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 701 · 5 U.S.C. § 702
Relies on Fay v. Noia · Gerstein v. Pugh · McNutt v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Federal Deposit Insurance v. Meyer
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is of no moment that they are now thousands of miles from Afghanistan. Their detention is for a purpose relating to ongoing military operations and they are being held at a military base outside the sovereign territory of the United States. The historical meaning of”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the government recognizes that these aliens fall within the protections of certain provisions of international law and that diplomatic channels remain an ongoing and viable means to address the claims raised by these aliens.”
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.