Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co.

Decided June 1, 1970. John Marshall Harlan delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 79 · 398 U.S. 144 (1970) · Cited 15,427 times

We don’t yet publish a summary of this opinion — read the official text below for the Court’s holding and reasoning.

How the Justices voted

Decided 5–2.

“Concurring” means agreeing with the outcome; any split shown is the Court’s judgment, not each Justice’s reasoning. Source: the Supreme Court Database (Spaeth et al.), Washington University.

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.

• Monroe v. Pape · 365 U.S. 167 (1961)
• Peterson v. City of Greenville · 373 U.S. 244 (1963)
• Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. · 392 U.S. 409 (1968)
• United States v. Price · 383 U.S. 787 (1966)
• Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority · 365 U.S. 715 (1961)
• United States v. Guest · 383 U.S. 745 (1966)
• Shelley v. Kraemer · 334 U.S. 1 (1948)
• Lombard v. Louisiana · 373 U.S. 267 (1963)
• Pierson v. Ray · 386 U.S. 547 (1967)
• Civil Rights Cases · 109 U.S. 3 (1883)
• Garner v. Louisiana · 368 U.S. 157 (1961)
• United States v. Harris · 106 U.S. 629 (1883)
• United States v. Classic · 313 U.S. 299 (1941)
• Collins v. Hardyman · 341 U.S. 651 (1951)
• Brown v. Board of Education · 347 U.S. 483 (1954)
• Screws v. United States · 325 U.S. 91 (1945)
• Reitman v. Mulkey · 387 U.S. 369 (1967)
• United States v. Williams · 341 U.S. 70 (1951)
• United States v. Diebold, Inc. · 369 U.S. 654 (1962)
• First Nat. Bank of Ariz. v. Cities Service Co. · 391 U.S. 253 (1968)
• Tenney v. Brandhove · 341 U.S. 367 (1951)
• Brown v. Board of Education · 349 U.S. 294 (1955)
• Katzenbach v. Morgan · 384 U.S. 641 (1966)
• Evans v. Newton · 382 U.S. 296 (1966)
• Lane v. Wilson · 307 U.S. 268 (1939)
• United States v. REESE · 92 U.S. 214 (1876)
• Nixon v. Herndon · 273 U.S. 536 (1927)
• Bell v. Maryland · 378 U.S. 226 (1964)
• Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway v. Browning · 310 U.S. 362 (1940)
• Dandridge v. Williams · 397 U.S. 471 (1970)

Cited by

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

• Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co. · 457 U.S. 922 (1982)
• Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, Administratrix of the Estate of Catrett · 477 U.S. 317 (1986)
• Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · 477 U.S. 242 (1986)
• Palmer v. Thompson · 403 U.S. 217 (1971)
• Flagg Bros., Inc. v. Brooks · 436 U.S. 149 (1978)
• Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · 475 U.S. 574 (1986)
• Polk County v. Dodson · 454 U.S. 312 (1981)
• Tolan v. Cotton · 572 U.S. 650 (2014)
• City of St. Louis v. Praprotnik · 485 U.S. 112 (1988)
• Rendell-Baker v. Kohn · 457 U.S. 830 (1982)
• Moose Lodge No. 107 v. Irvis · 407 U.S. 163 (1972)
• National Collegiate Athletic Assn. v. Tarkanian · 488 U.S. 179 (1988)
• Paul v. Davis · 424 U.S. 693 (1976)
• Carey v. Piphus · 435 U.S. 247 (1978)
• Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co. · 419 U.S. 345 (1974)
• Smith v. Wade · 461 U.S. 30 (1983)
• Dennis v. Sparks · 449 U.S. 24 (1980)
• Great American Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Novotny · 442 U.S. 366 (1979)
• Mourning v. Family Publications Service, Inc. · 411 U.S. 356 (1973)
• Weinberger v. Hynson, Westcott & Dunning, Inc. · 412 U.S. 609 (1973)
• Wyoming v. Oklahoma · 502 U.S. 437 (1992)
• Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs. · 436 U.S. 658 (1978)
• West v. Atkins · 487 U.S. 42 (1988)
• Anderson v. Creighton · 483 U.S. 635 (1987)
• City of Canton v. Harris · 489 U.S. 378 (1989)
• Board of the County Commissioners of Bryan County v. Brown · 520 U.S. 397 (1997)
• United States v. Mendenhall · 446 U.S. 544 (1980)
• Berkemer v. McCarty · 468 U.S. 420 (1984)
• American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. Sullivan · 526 U.S. 40 (1999)
• Auer v. Robbins · 519 U.S. 452 (1997)

Official text

Read the official opinion (U.S. Reports, govinfo.gov)

Explore from here

John Marshall Harlan’s profile · All Supreme Court opinions · The Supreme Court

Source: the U.S. Reports via govinfo.gov; authoring Justice and vote lineup from the Supreme Court Database (Washington University). Citation count from the Free Law Project’s CourtListener bulk data. Data last verified 2026-07-03. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).