United States v. George S. Bush & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
310 U.S. 371 · 1940
Citation profile
97 federal appellate · 17 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 349 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath (1951), Webster v. Doe (1988)
97 federal appellate · 17 district · 12 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 United States v. Chemical Foundation, Inc. · Norwegian Nitrogen Products Co. v. United States · J. W. Hampton, Jr., & Co. v. United States · Martin v. Mott
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 349 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It has long been held that where Congress has authorized a public officer to take some specified legislative action[,] when in his judgment that action is necessary or appropriate to carry out the policy of Congress, the judgment of the officer as to the existence of the facts calling for that action is not subject to review.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“necessary to equalize such differences in costs of production”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he President's method of solving the problem [of foreign exchange value] was open to scrutiny neither by the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals nor by us.”
1 later decision 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.