Regan v. Wald’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
243 federal appellate · 78 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 540 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Garcia v. United States (1985), Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project (2010)
243 federal appellate · 78 district · 7 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedWald v. Regan (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill · Morton v. Mancari · Harisiades v. Shaughnessy · Zemel v. Rusk · United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp.
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 540 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“investigate, block during the pendency of an investigation, regulate, direct and compel, nullify, void, prevent or prohibit, any acquisition, holding, withholding, use, transfer, withdrawal, transportation, importation or exportation of, or dealing in, or exercising any right, power, or privilege with respect to, or transactions involving, any property in which any foreign country or a national thereof has any interest by any person, or with respect to any property, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States ....”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[o]ral testimony of ... individual Congressmen, unless very precisely directed to the intended meaning of particular words in a statute, can seldom be expected to be as precise as the enacted language itself.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[d]uring the time of war or during any other period of national emergency declared by the President”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.