Albert W. Florence, Petitioner v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Burlington et al.
Decided April 2, 2012. Anthony McLeod Kennedy delivered the opinion of the Court.
Docket 10-945 · 566 U.S. 318 (2012) · Cited 697 times
Holding
The judgment is affirmed.
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How the Justices voted
Decided 5–4.
Majority · 3
- Anthony McLeod Kennedy · delivered the opinion of the Court
- Antonin Scalia
- Clarence Thomas
Concurring · 2
- John Glover Roberts Jr. · filed a concurring opinion
- Samuel A. Alito Jr. · filed a concurring opinion
Dissenting · 4
- Elena Kagan
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Sonia Sotomayor
- Stephen Gerald Breyer · filed a dissenting opinion
“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.
- Bell v. Wolfish · 441 U.S. 520 (1979)
- Atwater v. City of Lago Vista · 532 U.S. 318 (2001)
- Block v. Rutherford · 468 U.S. 576 (1984)
- Turner v. Safley · 482 U.S. 78 (1987)
- Hudson v. Palmer · 468 U.S. 517 (1984)
- Whren v. United States · 517 U.S. 806 (1996)
- New York v. Belton · 453 U.S. 454 (1981)
- United States Department of Justice v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press · 489 U.S. 749 (1989)
- Welsh v. Wisconsin · 466 U.S. 740 (1984)
- County of Riverside v. McLaughlin · 500 U.S. 44 (1991)
- United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. · 200 U.S. 321 (1906)
- Overton v. Bazzetta · 539 U.S. 126 (2003)
- Johnson v. California · 543 U.S. 499 (2005)
- Brown v. Plata · 563 U.S. 493 (2011)
- Safford Unified School District 1 v. Redding · 557 U.S. 364 (2009)
- Northwest Airlines, Inc. v. Minnesota · 322 U.S. 292 (1944)
Cited by
Later Supreme Court opinions in our collection that cite this case.
- Maryland v. King · 569 U.S. 435 (2013)
- Kingsley v. Hendrickson · 576 U.S. 389 (2015)
- Barnes v. Felix · 605 U.S. 73 (2025)
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