United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
299 U.S. 304 · 1936
Citation profile
592 federal appellate · 214 district · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,611 later decisions (161 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Yakus v. United States (1944), Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952)
592 federal appellate · 214 district · 75 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan · Langnes v. Green · Field v. Clark
Cited together with Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer · Baker v. Carr · Chicago & Southern Air Lines, Inc. v. Waterman Steamship Corp. · Oetjen v. Central Leather Co. · Johnson v. Eisentrager
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 1,611 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The President is the sole organ of the nation in its external relations, and its sole representative with foreign nations.”
46 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the sole organ of the federal government in the field of international relations”
31 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Practically every volume of the United States Statutes contains one or more acts or joint resolutions of Congress authorizing action by the President in respect of subjects affecting foreign relations, which either leave the exercise of the power to his unrestricted judgment, or provide a standard far more general than that which has always been considered requisite with regard to domestic affairs.”
8 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.