Hamdi v. Rumsfeld

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that ‘‘a person who does not satisfy Article III’s standing requirements may still proceed in federal court if he meets the criteria to serve as next friend of someone who does’’
• requiring showing of “inaccessibility, mental incompetence, or other disability — why the real party in interest cannot appear on his own behalf to prosecute the action”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Kennedy ex rel. Kennedy v. Secretary of Health & Human Services
  Federal Claims· 2011-05-16· cited 60×
• Padilla v. Rumsfeld
  Second Circuit· 2003-12-18· cited 44×
• Padilla Ex Rel. Newman v. Bush
  S.D. New York· 2002-12-04· cited 39×
• Yaser Esam Hamdi Esam Fouad Hamdi, as Next Friend of Yaser Esam Hamdi v. Donald Rumsfeld W.R. Paulette, Commander
  Fourth Circuit· 2002-07-12· cited 37×
• Carson P. ex rel Foreman v. Heineman
  D. Nebraska· 2007-01-19· cited 34×
• Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
  Fourth Circuit· 2003-01-08· cited 32×
• Coalition of Clergy, Lawyers, & Professors v. Bush
  Ninth Circuit· 2002-11-18· cited 23×
• Coalition Of Clergy, Lawyers, And Professors v. Bush
  Ninth Circuit· 2002-11-18· cited 18×
• First Defense Legal Aid v. City of Chicago
  First Circuit· 2003-02-19· cited 9×
• Doe v. Hochul
  Second Circuit· 2025-06-03· cited 9×
• Am. Civil Liberties Union Found. ex rel. Unnamed U.S. Citizen v. Mattis
  D.C. Circuit· 2017-12-23· cited 4×
• Nonhuman Rights Project, Inc. v. R.W. Commerford & Sons, Inc.
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2019-08-20· cited 3×
• Kennedy v. Secretary of Health & Human Services
  Federal Claims· 2011-03-10· cited 1×
• Movimiento Democracia, Inc. v. Johnson
  S.D. Florida· 2016-06-28· cited 1×
• Rumsfeld v. Hamdi
  Fourth Circuit· 2003-01-13
• First Defense Legal v. Devine, Richard A.
  Seventh Circuit· 2003-02-19
• American Civil Liberties Union Foundation v. Mattis
  District of Columbia· 2017-12-23
• Harrison v. Hudson
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2024-10-15

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services (TOC), Inc.
  Supreme Court· 2000-01-12· cited 6,373×
• Baker v. Carr
  Supreme Court· 1962-03-26· cited 6,173×
• Allen v. Wright
  Supreme Court· 1984-09-18· cited 4,763×
• Whitmore Ex Rel. Simmons v. Arkansas
  Supreme Court· 1990-04-24· cited 2,590×
• Schlesinger v. Reservists Committee to Stop the War
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-25· cited 1,370×
• In Re Katherine Susan Lowe
  Fourth Circuit· 1996-12-17· cited 133×
• T.W. And M.W., Minors, by Their Next Friend, Scott Enk v. Thomas Brophy
  Seventh Circuit· 1997-09-11· cited 110×
• Robert Lee Massie, by and Through Michael A. Kroll, Next Friend v. Jeanne S. Woodford, Warden
  Ninth Circuit· 2001-03-25· cited 49×
• Friends for Ferrell Parkway, LLC v. Stasko
  Fourth Circuit· 2002-02-28· cited 47×
• Sanchez-Velasco v. Secretary of the Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 2002-04-02· cited 36×
• Davis v. Austin
  N.D. Georgia· 1980-06-09· cited 29×
• In Re Zettlemoyer.
  Third Circuit· 1995-05-02· cited 20×
• Mary Amerson, as Next Friend of M.H. v. State of Iowa, Iowa Department of Human Services by Charles Palmer, Director
  Eighth Circuit· 1995-07-05· cited 11×
• Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
  Fourth Circuit· 2002-07-01· cited 1×