Barlow et al. v. Collins, Executive Director, Alabama Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, et al.

Decided March 3, 1970. William Orville Douglas delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 249 · 397 U.S. 159 (1970) · Cited 939 times

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How the Justices voted

Decided 6–2.

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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.

• Flast v. Cohen · 392 U.S. 83 (1968)
• Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · 387 U.S. 136 (1967)
• Hardin v. Kentucky Utilities Co. · 390 U.S. 1 (1968)
• Baker v. Carr · 369 U.S. 186 (1962)
• Schilling v. Rogers · 363 U.S. 666 (1960)
• The Chicago Junction Case · 264 U.S. 258 (1924)
• United States v. W. T. Grant Co. · 345 U.S. 629 (1953)
• Brown Shoe Co. v. United States · 370 U.S. 294 (1962)
• American Fire & Casualty Co. v. Finn · 341 U.S. 6 (1951)
• Poe v. Ullman · 367 U.S. 497 (1961)
• Leedom v. Kyne · 358 U.S. 184 (1958)
• Chicago & Southern Air Lines, Inc. v. Waterman Steamship Corp. · 333 U.S. 103 (1948)
• Muskrat v. United States · 219 U.S. 346 (1911)
• Switchmen's Union v. National Mediation Board · 320 U.S. 297 (1943)
• Federal Communications Commission v. Sanders Bros. Radio Station · 309 U.S. 470 (1940)
• Scripps-Howard Radio, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission · 316 U.S. 4 (1942)
• Stark v. Wickard · 321 U.S. 288 (1944)
• Tennessee Electric Power Co. v. Tennessee Valley Authority · 306 U.S. 118 (1939)
• Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway Co. v. Wellman · 143 U.S. 339 (1892)
• Harmon v. Brucker · 355 U.S. 579 (1958)
• City of Chicago v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. · 357 U.S. 77 (1958)
• United States v. Johnson · 319 U.S. 302 (1943)
• Texas Gas Transmission Corp. v. Shell Oil Co. · 363 U.S. 263 (1960)

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• Simon v. Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization · 426 U.S. 26 (1976)
• United States v. Richardson · 418 U.S. 166 (1974)
• Sierra Club v. Morton · 405 U.S. 727 (1972)
• Schlesinger v. Reservists Committee to Stop the War · 418 U.S. 208 (1974)
• Clarke v. Securities Industry Assn. · 479 U.S. 388 (1987)
• Block v. Community Nutrition Institute · 467 U.S. 340 (1984)
• Morris v. Gressette · 432 U.S. 491 (1977)
• Arnold Tours, Inc. v. Camp · 400 U.S. 45 (1970)
• Allen v. Wright · 468 U.S. 737 (1984)
• Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · 454 U.S. 464 (1982)
• United States v. Students Challenging Regulatory Agency Procedures (SCRAP) · 412 U.S. 669 (1973)
• Bowen v. Michigan Academy of Family Physicians · 476 U.S. 667 (1986)
• National Railroad Passenger Corporation v. National Assn. of Railroad Passengers · 414 U.S. 453 (1974)
• Warth v. Seldin · 422 U.S. 490 (1975)
• City of Chicago v. International College of Surgeons · 522 U.S. 156 (1997)
• Bennett v. Spear · 520 U.S. 154 (1997)
• Heckler v. Ringer · 466 U.S. 602 (1984)
• Kleppe v. Sierra Club · 427 U.S. 390 (1976)
• Linda RS v. Richard D. · 410 U.S. 614 (1973)
• Park 'N Fly, Inc. v. Dollar Park & Fly, Inc. · 469 U.S. 189 (1985)
• Investment Company Institute v. Camp · 401 U.S. 617 (1971)
• United States v. Sisson · 399 U.S. 267 (1970)
• Traynor v. Turnage · 485 U.S. 535 (1988)
• FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine · 602 U.S. 367 (2024)
• Southern Railway Co. v. Seaboard Allied Milling Corp. · 442 U.S. 444 (1979)

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