Castro v. Secretary of Homeland Security’s Empirical Analysis
472 F.3d 1334 · 2006
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably American Dental Ass'n v. Cigna Corp. (2010), Mills v. Foremost Insurance (2008)
11 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 791 · 49 U.S.C. § 44935
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Cisneros v. Alpine Ridge Group · Hill v. White · Spain v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. · United States v. McLymont
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As we have noted previously in construing statutes, the use of such a “notwithstanding” clause clearly signals the drafter’s intention that the provisions of the “notwithstanding” section override conflicting provisions of any other section. Likewise, the Courts of Appeals generally have interpreted similar “notwithstanding” language to supersede all other laws, stating that [a] clearer statement is difficult to imagine.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“exempts [the Transportation Security Administration] from compliance with the Rehabilitation Act in establishing employment standards for security screeners,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“hiring standards that are inconsistent with the Rehabilitation Act[ ].”
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.