Zemel v. Rusk’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
604 federal appellate · 244 district · 197 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,763 later decisions (135 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Griswold v. State of Connecticut (1965), Flast v. Cohen (1968)
604 federal appellate · 244 district · 197 state decisions — followed in 30 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 Udall v. Tallman · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · Bolling v. Sharpe · Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez
Cited together with Branzburg v. Hayes · Udall v. Tallman · Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission · Kent v. Dulles · Pell v. Procunier
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 1,763 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right to speak and publish does not carry with it the unrestrained right to gather information.”
39 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress-in giving the Executive authority over matters of foreign affairs-must of necessity paint with a brush broader than that it customarily wields in domestic areas.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“supported by the weightiest considerations of national security.”
5 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.