Zemel v. Rusk, Secretary of State, et al.

Decided May 3, 1965. Earl Warren delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 86 · 381 U.S. 1 (1965) · Cited 827 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.

• Kent v. Dulles · 357 U.S. 116 (1958)
• Aptheker v. Secretary of State · 378 U.S. 500 (1964)
• Cantwell v. Connecticut · 310 U.S. 296 (1940)
• Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer · 343 U.S. 579 (1952)
• Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan · 293 U.S. 388 (1935)
• Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez · 372 U.S. 144 (1963)
• Norwegian Nitrogen Products Co. v. United States · 288 U.S. 294 (1933)
• Phillips v. United States · 312 U.S. 246 (1941)
• Udall v. Tallman · 380 U.S. 1 (1965)
• National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Button · 371 U.S. 415 (1963)
• Bolling v. Sharpe · 347 U.S. 497 (1954)
• Shelton v. Tucker · 364 U.S. 479 (1960)
• Schneider v. State (Town of Irvington) · 308 U.S. 147 (1939)
• A. L. A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States · 295 U.S. 495 (1935)
• Lovell v. City of Griffin · 303 U.S. 444 (1938)
• Schware v. Board of Bar Examiners of NM · 353 U.S. 232 (1957)
• Public Serv. Comm'n of Utah v. Wycoff Co. · 344 U.S. 237 (1952)
• Banco Nacional De Cuba v. Sabbatino · 376 U.S. 398 (1964)
• Service v. Dulles · 354 U.S. 363 (1957)
• Martin v. City of Struthers · 319 U.S. 141 (1943)
• United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. · 299 U.S. 304 (1936)
• Korematsu v. United States · 323 U.S. 214 (1945)
• Alabama State Federation of Labor v. McAdory · 325 U.S. 450 (1945)
• Kunz v. New York · 340 U.S. 290 (1951)
• Idlewild Bon Voyage Liquor Corp. v. Epstein · 370 U.S. 713 (1962)
• Saia v. New York · 334 U.S. 558 (1948)
• Lichter v. United States · 334 U.S. 742 (1948)
• Terrace v. Thompson · 263 U.S. 197 (1923)
• Edwards v. California · 314 U.S. 160 (1941)
• Sterling v. Constantin · 287 U.S. 378 (1932)

Cited by

Later Supreme Court opinions in our collection that cite this case.

• Haig v. Agee · 453 U.S. 280 (1981)
• Regan v. Wald · 468 U.S. 222 (1984)
• Saxbe v. Washington Post Co. · 417 U.S. 843 (1974)
• Branzburg v. Hayes · 408 U.S. 665 (1972)
• Shapiro v. Thompson · 394 U.S. 618 (1969)
• Zivotofsky v. Kerry · 576 U.S. 1 (2015)
• Kleindienst v. Mandel · 408 U.S. 753 (1972)
• Houchins v. KQED, Inc. · 438 U.S. 1 (1978)
• Flast v. Cohen · 392 U.S. 83 (1968)
• Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Virginia · 448 U.S. 555 (1980)
• National Labor Relations Board v. Bell Aerospace Co. · 416 U.S. 267 (1974)
• Califano v. Aznavorian · 439 U.S. 170 (1978)
• CBS, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission · 453 U.S. 367 (1981)
• Griswold v. Connecticut · 381 U.S. 479 (1965)
• Pell v. Procunier · 417 U.S. 817 (1974)
• Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission · 395 U.S. 367 (1969)
• Press-Enterprise Co. v. Superior Court of Cal., Riverside Cty. · 464 U.S. 501 (1984)
• Press-Enterprise Co. v. Superior Court of Cal., County of Riverside · 478 U.S. 1 (1986)
• Thorpe v. Housing Authority of Durham · 393 U.S. 268 (1969)
• Perez v. Ledesma · 401 U.S. 82 (1971)
• Nixon v. Warner Communications, Inc. · 435 U.S. 589 (1978)
• Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Chadha · 462 U.S. 919 (1983)
• Seattle Times Co. v. Rhinehart · 467 U.S. 20 (1984)
• Regents of the University of California v. Bakke · 438 U.S. 265 (1978)
• Mathews v. Diaz · 426 U.S. 67 (1976)
• Gannett Co. v. DePasquale · 443 U.S. 368 (1979)
• Allen v. State Board of Elections · 393 U.S. 544 (1969)
• Toussie v. United States · 397 U.S. 112 (1970)
• United States v. Guest · 383 U.S. 745 (1966)
• Turner v. Fouche · 396 U.S. 346 (1970)

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