California Bankers Assn. v. Shultz, Secretary of the Treasury, et al.

Decided April 1, 1974. William Hubbs Rehnquist delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 72-985 · 416 U.S. 21 (1974) · Cited 622 times

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How the Justices voted

Decided 6–3.

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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.

• Boyd v. United States · 116 U.S. 616 (1886)
• United States v. Darby · 312 U.S. 100 (1941)
• United States v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan · 407 U.S. 297 (1972)
• Stanford v. Texas · 379 U.S. 476 (1965)
• Shapiro v. United States · 335 U.S. 1 (1948)
• Katz v. United States · 389 U.S. 347 (1967)
• United States v. Robel · 389 U.S. 258 (1967)
• National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Button · 371 U.S. 415 (1963)
• National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Alabama Ex Rel. Patterson · 357 U.S. 449 (1958)
• Communist Party of United States v. Subversive Activities Control Bd. · 367 U.S. 1 (1961)
• Baker v. Carr · 369 U.S. 186 (1962)
• Eisenstadt v. Baird · 405 U.S. 438 (1972)
• United States v. White · 322 U.S. 694 (1944)
• Carroll v. United States · 267 U.S. 132 (1925)
• Cantwell v. Connecticut · 310 U.S. 296 (1940)
• O'Shea v. Littleton · 414 U.S. 488 (1974)
• Sierra Club v. Morton · 405 U.S. 727 (1972)
• Kastigar v. United States · 406 U.S. 441 (1972)
• Shelton v. Tucker · 364 U.S. 479 (1960)
• Doe v. Bolton · 410 U.S. 179 (1973)
• Marchetti v. United States · 390 U.S. 39 (1968)
• Thorpe v. Housing Authority of Durham · 393 U.S. 268 (1969)
• United States v. Morton Salt Co. · 338 U.S. 632 (1950)
• Oklahoma Press Publishing Co. v. Walling · 327 U.S. 186 (1946)
• United States v. Biswell · 406 U.S. 311 (1972)
• Barrows v. Jackson · 346 U.S. 249 (1953)
• Couch v. United States · 409 U.S. 322 (1973)
• Bates v. City of Little Rock · 361 U.S. 516 (1960)
• Hall v. Beals · 396 U.S. 45 (1969)
• United States v. Sullivan · 274 U.S. 259 (1927)

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• United States v. Miller · 425 U.S. 435 (1976)
• United States v. Bisceglia · 420 U.S. 141 (1975)
• Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins · 578 U.S. 330 (2016)
• Smith v. Maryland · 442 U.S. 735 (1979)
• City of L. A. v. Patel · 576 U.S. 409 (2015)
• Buckley v. Valeo · 424 U.S. 1 (1976)
• South Dakota v. Opperman · 428 U.S. 364 (1976)
• Whalen v. Roe · 429 U.S. 589 (1977)
• Nixon v. Administrator of General Services · 433 U.S. 425 (1977)
• Carpenter v. United States · 585 U.S. 296 (2018)
• Landgraf v. USI Film Products · 511 U.S. 244 (1994)
• Fisher v. United States · 425 U.S. 391 (1976)
• Colorado v. Bertine · 479 U.S. 367 (1987)
• Scott v. United States · 436 U.S. 128 (1978)
• First Nat. Bank of Boston v. Bellotti · 435 U.S. 765 (1978)
• Vance v. Bradley · 440 U.S. 93 (1979)
• Ratzlaf v. United States · 510 U.S. 135 (1994)
• National Treasury Employees Union v. Von Raab · 489 U.S. 656 (1989)
• Abood v. Detroit Board of Education · 431 U.S. 209 (1977)
• National League of Cities v. Usery · 426 U.S. 833 (1976)
• Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. v. Bonjorno · 494 U.S. 827 (1990)
• Fullilove v. Klutznick · 448 U.S. 448 (1980)
• United States v. Payner · 447 U.S. 727 (1980)
• Moe v. Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation · 425 U.S. 463 (1976)
• G. M. Leasing Corp. v. United States · 429 U.S. 338 (1977)
• Brown v. Socialist Workers '74 Campaign Comm. (Ohio) · 459 U.S. 87 (1982)

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