Board of Trustees of University of Illinois v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
289 U.S. 48 · 1933
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 30 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 268 later decisions (47 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably United States v. Butler (1936), Maryland v. Wirtz (1968)
60 federal appellate · 30 district · 30 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.
Relationships
Relies on Gibbons v. Ogden · J. W. Hampton, Jr., & Co. v. United States · Atlantic Cleaners & Dyers, Inc. v. United States · Brown v. Maryland · Buttfield v. Stranahan
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 268 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The principle of duality in our system of government does not touch the authority of Congress in the regulation of foreign commerce”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'In international relations and with respect to foreign intercourse and trade the people of the United States act through a single government with unified and adequate national power.' Board of Trustees v. United States, 289 U.S. 48 , 59 [53 S.Ct. 509, 510, 77 L.Ed. 1025] (1933)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“constitutional authority to regulate Commerce with foreign nations,”
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.