Barrows et al. v. Jackson

Decided June 15, 1953. Sherman Minton delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 517 · 346 U.S. 249 (1953) · Cited 940 times

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How the Justices voted

Decided 6–1.

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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.

• Shelley v. Kraemer · 334 U.S. 1 (1948)
• McCabe v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. · 235 U.S. 151 (1914)
• Tyler v. Judges of the Court of Registration · 179 U.S. 405 (1900)
• Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · 297 U.S. 288 (1936)
• Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath · 341 U.S. 123 (1951)
• Coleman v. Miller · 307 U.S. 433 (1939)
• Buchanan v. Warley · 245 U.S. 60 (1916)
• Wuchter v. Pizzutti · 276 U.S. 13 (1928)
• Tileston v. Ullman · 318 U.S. 44 (1943)
• New York Ex Rel. Hatch v. Reardon · 204 U.S. 152 (1907)
• Jeffrey Manufacturing Co. v. Blagg · 235 U.S. 571 (1915)
• Cohens v. Virginia · 19 U.S. 264 (1821)
• Massachusetts v. Mellon · 262 U.S. 447 (1923)
• United Public Workers of America v. Mitchell · 330 U.S. 75 (1947)
• United States v. Jeffers · 342 U.S. 48 (1951)
• Truax v. Raich · 239 U.S. 33 (1915)
• United States v. Butler · 297 U.S. 1 (1936)
• Illinois Ex Rel. McCollum v. Board of Ed. of School Dist. No. 71, Champaign Cty. · 333 U.S. 203 (1948)
• Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. v. United States · 316 U.S. 407 (1942)
• Federal Communications Commission v. Sanders Bros. Radio Station · 309 U.S. 470 (1940)
• Doremus v. Board of Ed. of Hawthorne · 342 U.S. 429 (1952)
• Tennessee Electric Power Co. v. Tennessee Valley Authority · 306 U.S. 118 (1939)
• Alabama Power Co. v. Ickes · 302 U.S. 464 (1938)
• Hurd v. Hodge · 334 U.S. 24 (1948)
• Helvering v. Gerhardt · 304 U.S. 405 (1938)
• Sweatt v. Painter · 339 U.S. 629 (1950)
• Goldstein v. United States · 316 U.S. 114 (1942)
• Fairchild v. Hughes · 258 U.S. 126 (1922)
• Tidal Oil Co. v. Flanagan · 263 U.S. 444 (1924)

Cited by

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• Singleton v. Wulff · 428 U.S. 106 (1976)
• Miller v. Albright · 523 U.S. 420 (1998)
• Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. v. Public Service Commission · 447 U.S. 557 (1980)
• Craig v. Boren · 429 U.S. 190 (1976)
• Kowalski v. Tesmer · 543 U.S. 125 (2004)
• Warth v. Seldin · 422 U.S. 490 (1975)
• Sullivan v. Little Hunting Park, Inc. · 396 U.S. 229 (1969)
• Lombard v. Louisiana · 373 U.S. 267 (1963)
• Flast v. Cohen · 392 U.S. 83 (1968)
• CBOCS West, Inc. v. Humphries · 553 U.S. 442 (2008)
• McGowan v. Maryland · 366 U.S. 420 (1961)
• Eisenstadt v. Baird · 405 U.S. 438 (1972)
• Jackson v. Birmingham Board of Education · 544 U.S. 167 (2005)
• Reitman v. Mulkey · 387 U.S. 369 (1967)
• California Bankers Assn. v. Shultz · 416 U.S. 21 (1974)
• United States v. Booker · 543 U.S. 220 (2005)
• Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · 398 U.S. 144 (1970)
• Rakas v. Illinois · 439 U.S. 128 (1978)
• Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · 429 U.S. 252 (1977)
• Griswold v. Connecticut · 381 U.S. 479 (1965)
• Bennett v. Spear · 520 U.S. 154 (1997)
• Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · 397 U.S. 150 (1970)
• Powers v. Ohio · 499 U.S. 400 (1991)
• National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Alabama Ex Rel. Patterson · 357 U.S. 449 (1958)
• New York v. Ferber · 458 U.S. 747 (1982)
• Alderman v. United States · 394 U.S. 165 (1969)
• United States Parole Commission v. Geraghty · 445 U.S. 388 (1980)
• Zablocki v. Redhail · 434 U.S. 374 (1978)
• Carey v. Population Services International · 431 U.S. 678 (1977)
• Abood v. Detroit Board of Education · 431 U.S. 209 (1977)

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