Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. et al. v. Sawyer

Decided June 2, 1952. Hugo Lafayette Black delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 744 · 343 U.S. 579 (1952) · Cited 1,646 times

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How the Justices voted

Decided 6–3.

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Precedents cited

Supreme Court decisions this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases in our collection link through; others are named.

• Myers v. United States · 272 U.S. 52 (1926)
• In Re Debs · 158 U.S. 564 (1895)
• Humphrey's v. United States · 295 U.S. 602 (1935)
• Hirabayashi v. United States · 320 U.S. 81 (1943)
• Ex Parte Milligan · 71 U.S. 2 (1867)
• Amalgamated Ass'n of Street, Electric Railway & Motor Coach Employees of America, Division 998 v. Wisconsin Employment Relations Board · 340 U.S. 383 (1951)
• United States v. United Mine Workers of America · 330 U.S. 258 (1947)
• Home Building & Loan Assn. v. Blaisdell · 290 U.S. 398 (1934)
• Chicago & Southern Air Lines, Inc. v. Waterman Steamship Corp. · 333 U.S. 103 (1948)
• United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. · 299 U.S. 304 (1936)
• United States v. North American Transportation & Trading Co. · 253 U.S. 330 (1920)
• United States v. Pewee Coal Co. · 341 U.S. 114 (1951)
• MacKenzie v. Hare · 239 U.S. 299 (1915)
• Little v. Barreme · 6 U.S. 170 (1804)
• Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · 297 U.S. 288 (1936)
• United States v. Classic · 313 U.S. 299 (1941)
• Larson v. Domestic and Foreign Commerce Corp. · 337 U.S. 682 (1949)
• United States v. Causby · 328 U.S. 256 (1946)
• United States v. General Motors Corp. · 323 U.S. 373 (1945)
• Korematsu v. United States · 323 U.S. 214 (1945)
• Fong Yue Ting v. United States · 149 U.S. 698 (1893)
• Texas & NOR Co. v. Brotherhood of Ry. & Steamship Clerks · 281 U.S. 548 (1930)
• Ex Parte Bollman and Swartwout · 8 U.S. 75 (1807)
• Springer v. Government of Philippine Islands · 277 U.S. 189 (1928)
• Ex Parte Quirin · 317 U.S. 1 (1942)
• Sterling v. Constantin · 287 U.S. 378 (1932)
• Mitchell v. Harmony · 54 U.S. 115 (1852)
• Duncan v. Kahanamoku · 327 U.S. 304 (1946)
• Hooe v. United States · 218 U.S. 322 (1910)

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• Dames & Moore v. Regan · 453 U.S. 654 (1981)
• Hamdi v. Rumsfeld · 542 U.S. 507 (2004)
• Nixon v. Administrator of General Services · 433 U.S. 425 (1977)
• Trump v. CASA, Inc. · 606 U.S. 831 (2025)
• Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Chadha · 462 U.S. 919 (1983)
• Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists · 476 U.S. 747 (1986)
• Clinton v. Jones · 520 U.S. 681 (1997)
• New York Times Co. v. United States · 403 U.S. 713 (1971)
• Nixon v. Fitzgerald · 457 U.S. 731 (1982)
• Hamdan v. Rumsfeld · 548 U.S. 557 (2006)
• Dalton v. Specter · 511 U.S. 462 (1994)
• American Ins. Assn. v. Garamendi · 539 U.S. 396 (2003)
• Gamble v. United States · 587 U.S. 678 (2019)
• Buckley v. Valeo · 424 U.S. 1 (1976)
• United States v. Nixon · 418 U.S. 683 (1974)
• Ziglar v. Abbasi · 582 U.S. 120 (2017)
• Mistretta v. United States · 488 U.S. 361 (1989)
• Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council · 530 U.S. 363 (2000)
• Plaut v. Spendthrift Farm, Inc. · 514 U.S. 211 (1995)
• Franklin v. Massachusetts · 505 U.S. 788 (1992)
• Zemel v. Rusk · 381 U.S. 1 (1965)
• Gundy v. United States · 588 U.S. 128 (2019)
• Minnesota v. Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians · 526 U.S. 172 (1999)
• Bank Markazi v. Peterson · 578 U.S. 212 (2016)
• Puerto Rico v. Sanchez Valle · 579 U.S. 59 (2016)
• Collins v. Yellen · 594 U.S. 220 (2021)
• Georgia v. Public Resource.Org, Inc. · 590 U.S. 255 (2020)

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