Bennett v. Chertoff’s Empirical Analysis
425 F.3d 999 · 2005
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 17 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Rattigan v. Holder (2012), Toy v. Holder (2013)
12 federal appellate · 17 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 Giglio v. United States · Irwin v. Department of Veterans Affairs · Hamdi v. Rumsfeld · Department of the Navy v. Egan · Becerra v. Dalton
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Bennett could not challenge the authenticity of TSA's proffered reason [for termination]-her inability to maintain a security clearance-without also challenging the validity of the reason, which is what Ryan prohibits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“under Ryan, a court cannot adjudicate the credibility of that claim”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rattigan v. Holder“evaluate the validity of the agency's security determination”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rattigan v. Holder
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.