Hamdi v. Rumsfeld’s Empirical Analysis
294 F.3d 598 · 2002
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2025
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Allen v. Wright · Friends of the Earth Incorporateds v. Laidlaw Environmental Services Inc · Whitmore v. Arkansas · Schlesinger v. Reservists Committee to Stop the War
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, a “next friend” must provide an adequate explanation- — such as inaccessibility, mental incompetence, or other disability — why the real party in interest cannot appear on his own behalf to prosecute the action____Second, the “next friend” must be truly dedicated to the best interests of the person on whose behalf he seeks to litigate, ... and it has been further suggested that a “next friend” must have some significant relationship with the real party in interest.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“), denying next-friend standing to a public defender and a private citizen who filed habeas petitions on behalf of a military detainee captured as an alleged enemy combatant in Afghanistan. Id. at 604. Construing the language of Whitmore, it noted: 41 [The Supreme Court in Whitmore ] thought it important to begin by stating that there are”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“private between Hamdi, the attorney, and the interpreter, without military personnel present, and without any listening or recording devices of any kind being employed in any way.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hamdi
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.