Rumsfeld Secretary of Defense v. Padilla et al.’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
197 federal appellate · 237 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,043 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Boumediene v. Bush (2008), Jennings v. Rodriguez (2018)
197 federal appellate · 237 district · 15 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedPadilla v. Rumsfeld (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 951 · 18 U.S.C. § 3144 (Bail Reform Act of 1984) · 18 U.S.C. § 4001 · 28 U.S.C. § 1404 · 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2242 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Carafas v. J · Jones v. Cunningham · United States v. Hayman · Kontrick v. Ryan · Braden v. 30th Judicial Circuit Court of Kentucky
Cited together with Braden v. 30th Judicial Circuit Court of Kentucky · Demore District Director San Francisco District of Immigration and Naturalization Service et al. v. Kim · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Ex parte Endo · Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
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 1,043 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]ur understanding of custody has broadened to include restraints short of physical confinement[.]”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the person who has custody over [the petitioner].” 28 U.S.C. § 2242 ; see also § 2243 (”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the warden of the facility where the prisoner is being held,”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.