245 F. Supp. 2d 94 - Flynt v. Rumsfeld’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
March 2015
most recently cited
4 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2201
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Baker v. Carr · Bennett v. Spear
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“implicate the President's activities as Commander in Chief or the authority of the Secretary of Defense to direct military actions,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Flynt v. Rumsfeld“... the only U.S. troops on the ground in Afghanistan are small numbers of servicemen involved in special operations activity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Flynt v. Rumsfeld“significant principle of First Amendment protection in the context of a new application of the facial challenge mechanism.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Flynt v. Rumsfeld
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.