Block, Secretary of Agriculture, et al. v. North Dakota Ex Rel. Board of University and School Lands

Decided May 2, 1983. Byron Raymond White delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 81-2337 · 461 U.S. 273 (1983) · Cited 1,009 times

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How the Justices voted

Decided 8–1.

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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.

• Malone v. Bowdoin · 369 U.S. 643 (1962)
• Brown v. General Services Administration · 425 U.S. 820 (1976)
• Minnesota v. United States · 305 U.S. 382 (1939)
• United States v. Kubrick · 444 U.S. 111 (1979)
• Weber v. Board of Harbor Commissioners · 85 U.S. 57 (1873)
• Larson v. Domestic and Foreign Commerce Corp. · 337 U.S. 682 (1949)
• Indian Towing Co. v. United States · 350 U.S. 61 (1955)
• Soriano v. United States · 352 U.S. 270 (1957)
• Guaranty Trust Co. v. United States · 304 U.S. 126 (1938)
• Wilson v. Omaha Indian Tribe · 442 U.S. 653 (1979)
• Preiser v. Rodriguez · 411 U.S. 475 (1973)
• United States v. Sherwood · 312 U.S. 584 (1941)
• Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NY v. Tomanio · 446 U.S. 478 (1980)
• Montana v. United States · 450 U.S. 544 (1981)
• Great American Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Novotny · 442 U.S. 366 (1979)
• Lehman v. Nakshian · 453 U.S. 156 (1981)
• United States v. New York Telephone Co. · 434 U.S. 159 (1977)
• United States v. Lee · 106 U.S. 196 (1882)
• Texaco, Inc. v. Short · 454 U.S. 516 (1982)
• United States v. Kirkpatrick · 22 U.S. 720 (1824)
• Dayton Board of Education v. Brinkman · 433 U.S. 406 (1977)
• United States v. Carmack · 329 U.S. 230 (1946)
• Honda v. Clark · 386 U.S. 484 (1967)
• United States v. Oregon · 295 U.S. 1 (1935)
• United States v. Demko · 385 U.S. 149 (1966)
• Wilson v. Iseminger · 185 U.S. 55 (1902)
• Oklahoma Ex Rel. Phillips v. Guy F. Atkinson Co. · 313 U.S. 508 (1941)
• Sohn v. Waterson · 84 U.S. 596 (1873)

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• Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians v. Patchak · 567 U.S. 209 (2012)
• Wilkins v. United States · 598 U.S. 152 (2023)
• United States v. Mottaz · 476 U.S. 834 (1986)
• Henderson v. United States · 517 U.S. 654 (1996)
• Hinck v. United States · 550 U.S. 501 (2007)
• Bowen v. City of New York · 476 U.S. 467 (1986)
• Irwin v. Department of Veterans Affairs · 498 U.S. 89 (1990)
• Bowen v. Massachusetts · 487 U.S. 879 (1988)
• United States v. Dalm · 494 U.S. 596 (1990)
• United States v. Beggerly · 524 U.S. 38 (1998)
• United States v. Clintwood Elkhorn Mining Co. · 553 U.S. 1 (2008)
• Raygor v. Regents of the University of Minnesota · 534 U.S. 533 (2002)
• United States Department of Energy v. Ohio · 503 U.S. 607 (1992)
• United States v. 50 Acres of Land · 469 U.S. 24 (1984)
• EC Term of Years Trust v. United States · 550 U.S. 429 (2007)
• Kansas v. Colorado · 514 U.S. 673 (1995)
• Upper Skagit Tribe v. Lundgren · 584 U.S. 554 (2018)

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