Yaser Esam Hamdi and Esam Fouad Hamdi as Next Friend of Yaser Esam Hamdi v. Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, et al.

Decided June 28, 2004. Sandra Day O'Connor delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 03-6696 · 542 U.S. 507 (2004) · Cited 1,441 times

Holding

The judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded.

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How the Justices voted

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Precedents cited

Supreme Court decisions this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases in our collection link through; others are named.

• Ex Parte Quirin · 317 U.S. 1 (1942)
• Mathews v. Eldridge · 424 U.S. 319 (1976)
• Ex Parte Endo · 323 U.S. 283 (1945)
• Moyer v. Peabody · 212 U.S. 78 (1909)
• Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer · 343 U.S. 579 (1952)
• United States v. Salerno · 481 U.S. 739 (1987)
• Chicago & Southern Air Lines, Inc. v. Waterman Steamship Corp. · 333 U.S. 103 (1948)
• Korematsu v. United States · 323 U.S. 214 (1945)
• Haig v. Agee · 453 U.S. 280 (1981)
• Johnson v. Eisentrager · 339 U.S. 763 (1950)
• Immigration & Naturalization Service v. St. Cyr · 533 U.S. 289 (2001)
• Ludecke v. Watkins · 335 U.S. 160 (1948)
• Superintendent, Mass. Correctional Institution at Walpole v. Hill · 472 U.S. 445 (1985)
• Carey v. Piphus · 435 U.S. 247 (1978)
• Addington v. Texas · 441 U.S. 418 (1979)
• Kansas v. Hendricks · 521 U.S. 346 (1997)
• Concrete Pipe & Products of Cal., Inc. v. Construction Laborers Pension Trust for Southern Cal. · 508 U.S. 602 (1993)
• Foucha v. Louisiana · 504 U.S. 71 (1992)
• Reid v. Covert · 354 U.S. 1 (1957)
• Department of the Navy v. Egan · 484 U.S. 518 (1988)
• Aptheker v. Secretary of State · 378 U.S. 500 (1964)
• Dames & Moore v. Regan · 453 U.S. 654 (1981)
• Duncan v. Kahanamoku · 327 U.S. 304 (1946)
• Scheuer v. Rhodes · 416 U.S. 232 (1974)
• In Re WINSHIP · 397 U.S. 358 (1970)
• Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · 339 U.S. 306 (1950)
• Preiser v. Rodriguez · 411 U.S. 475 (1973)
• Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · 470 U.S. 532 (1985)
• Tennessee v. Garner · 471 U.S. 1 (1985)
• Fuentes v. Shevin · 407 U.S. 67 (1972)

Cited by

Later Supreme Court opinions in our collection that cite this case.

• Boumediene v. Bush · 553 U.S. 723 (2008)
• Hamdan v. Rumsfeld · 548 U.S. 557 (2006)
• Kerry v. Din · 576 U.S. 86 (2015)
• Ziglar v. Abbasi · 582 U.S. 120 (2017)
• Trump v. Vance · 591 U.S. 786 (2020)
• Department of Homeland Security v. Thuraissigiam · 591 U.S. 103 (2020)
• Johnson v. United States · 576 U.S. 591 (2015)
• Nelson v. Colorado · 581 U.S. 128 (2017)
• Zivotofsky v. Kerry · 576 U.S. 1 (2015)
• Zadvydas v. Davis · 533 U.S. 678 (2001)
• Munaf v. Geren · 553 U.S. 674 (2008)
• District Attorney's Office for the Third Judicial District v. Osborne · 557 U.S. 52 (2009)
• Trump v. Hawaii · 585 U.S. 667 (2018)
• Brown v. Davenport · 596 U.S. 118 (2022)
• Rapanos v. United States · 547 U.S. 715 (2006)
• United States v. Rahimi · 602 U.S. 680 (2024)
• Edwards v. Vannoy · 593 U.S. 255 (2021)
• United States v. Zubaydah · 595 U.S. 195 (2022)
• FCC v. Consumers' Research · 606 U.S. 656 (2025)
• Agency for Int'l Development v. Alliance for Open Society · 591 U.S. 430 (2020)

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