City of Columbia et al. v. Omni Outdoor Advertising, Inc.

Decided April 1, 1991. Antonin Scalia delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 89-1671 · 499 U.S. 365 (1991) · Cited 609 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.

• Parker v. Brown · 317 U.S. 341 (1943)
• Town of Hallie v. City of Eau Claire · 471 U.S. 34 (1985)
• Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference v. Noerr Motor Freight, Inc. · 365 U.S. 127 (1961)
• City of Lafayette v. Louisiana Power & Light Co. · 435 U.S. 389 (1978)
• Hoover v. Ronwin · 466 U.S. 558 (1984)
• Community Communications Co. v. City of Boulder · 455 U.S. 40 (1982)
• California Motor Transport Co. v. Trucking Unlimited · 404 U.S. 508 (1972)
• Fisher v. City of Berkeley · 475 U.S. 260 (1986)
• Pierson v. Ray · 386 U.S. 547 (1967)
• United Mine Workers v. Pennington · 381 U.S. 657 (1965)
• National Society of Professional Engineers v. United States · 435 U.S. 679 (1978)
• West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. v. Casey · 499 U.S. 83 (1991)
• Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · 475 U.S. 574 (1986)
• Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · 491 U.S. 58 (1989)
• Stump v. Sparkman · 435 U.S. 349 (1978)
• Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · 429 U.S. 252 (1977)
• United States v. O'Brien · 391 U.S. 367 (1968)
• Owen v. City of Independence · 445 U.S. 622 (1980)
• Bates v. State Bar of Arizona · 433 U.S. 350 (1977)
• United States v. Kagama · 118 U.S. 375 (1886)
• Schwegmann Bros. v. Calvert Distillers Corp. · 341 U.S. 384 (1951)
• Monsanto Co. v. Spray-Rite Service Corp. · 465 U.S. 752 (1984)
• Theatre Enterprises, Inc. v. Paramount Film Distributing Corp. · 346 U.S. 537 (1954)
• Southern Motor Carriers Rate Conference, Inc. v. United States · 471 U.S. 48 (1985)
• Sunkist Growers, Inc. v. Winckler & Smith Citrus Products Co. · 370 U.S. 19 (1962)
• Standard Oil Co. v. Federal Trade Commission · 340 U.S. 231 (1951)

Cited by

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• Professional Real Estate Investors, Inc. v. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. · 508 U.S. 49 (1993)
• Federal Trade Commission v. Ticor Title Insurance · 504 U.S. 621 (1992)

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