Uthman v. Obama’s Empirical Analysis
637 F.3d 400 · 2011
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 6 district ·
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Bourjaily v. United States · Concrete Pipe & Products of Cal., Inc. v. Construction Laborers Pension Trust for Southern Cal. · Hamdi v. Rumsfeld · Boumediene v. Bush · Boumediene v. Bush
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Al Alwi v. Obama · Ali v. Obama“we do not imply that all of the evidence in this case is necessary to find someone part of”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the determination of whether an individual is part of al-Qaida must ' be made on a case-by-case basis by using a functional rath'er than a formal approach and by focusing upon the actions of the individual in relation to the organization.”
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.