Khan v. Obama’s Empirical Analysis
655 F.3d 20 · 2011
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1621 · 50 U.S.C. § 1541
Relies on Boumediene v. Bush · Boumediene v. Bush · Students Against Genocide v. Department of State · Clark County v. Vacation Village, Inc. · Al-Bihani v. Obama
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he 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.”
2 later decisions 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.