City of El Paso v. Simmons

Decided January 18, 1965. Byron Raymond White delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 38 · 379 U.S. 497 (1965) · Cited 333 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.

• Home Building & Loan Assn. v. Blaisdell · 290 U.S. 398 (1934)
• East New York Savings Bank v. Hahn · 326 U.S. 230 (1945)
• Bank of Columbia v. Okely · 17 U.S. 122 (1819)
• Manigault v. Springs · 199 U.S. 473 (1905)
• Gelfert v. National City Bank of NY · 313 U.S. 221 (1941)
• Stephenson v. Binford · 287 U.S. 251 (1932)
• Veix v. Sixth Ward Building & Loan Assn. of Newark · 310 U.S. 32 (1940)
• Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Chicago · 166 U.S. 226 (1897)
• Louisville Joint Stock Land Bank v. Radford · 295 U.S. 555 (1935)
• Perry v. United States · 294 U.S. 330 (1935)
• Davis v. Mills · 194 U.S. 451 (1904)
• Rochin v. California · 342 U.S. 165 (1952)
• Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon · 260 U.S. 393 (1922)
• Ferguson v. Skrupa · 372 U.S. 726 (1963)
• Lynch v. United States · 292 U.S. 571 (1934)
• Ogden v. Saunders · 25 U.S. 213 (1827)
• United States v. General Motors Corp. · 323 U.S. 373 (1945)
• Federal Power Commission v. Natural Gas Pipeline Co. · 315 U.S. 575 (1942)
• Konigsberg v. State Bar of Cal. · 366 U.S. 36 (1961)
• Scales v. United States · 367 U.S. 203 (1961)
• Barenblatt v. United States · 360 U.S. 109 (1959)
• Marcus Brown Holding Co. v. Feldman · 256 U.S. 170 (1921)
• Beauharnais v. Illinois · 343 U.S. 250 (1952)
• Von Hoffman v. City of Quincy · 71 U.S. 535 (1867)
• Griggs v. Allegheny County · 369 U.S. 84 (1962)
• Norman v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad · 294 U.S. 240 (1935)
• Wright v. Vinton Branch of Mountain Trust Bank of Roanoke · 300 U.S. 440 (1937)
• Federal Power Commission v. Tuscarora Indian Nation · 362 U.S. 99 (1960)
• City of Chicago v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. · 357 U.S. 77 (1958)
• W. B. Worthen Co. v. Kavanaugh · 295 U.S. 56 (1935)

Cited by

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• United States Trust Co. of NY v. New Jersey · 431 U.S. 1 (1977)
• Allied Structural Steel Co. v. Spannaus · 438 U.S. 234 (1978)
• Sveen v. Melin · 584 U.S. 811 (2018)
• Thorpe v. Housing Authority of Durham · 393 U.S. 268 (1969)
• Energy Reserves Group, Inc. v. Kansas Power & Light Co. · 459 U.S. 400 (1983)
• Texaco, Inc. v. Short · 454 U.S. 516 (1982)
• Griswold v. Connecticut · 381 U.S. 479 (1965)
• City of Renton v. Playtime Theatres, Inc. · 475 U.S. 41 (1986)
• Doran v. Salem Inn, Inc. · 422 U.S. 922 (1975)
• Maine v. Taylor · 477 U.S. 131 (1986)
• Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists · 476 U.S. 747 (1986)
• United States v. Little Lake Misere Land Co. · 412 U.S. 580 (1973)
• Fornaris v. Ridge Tool Co. · 400 U.S. 41 (1970)
• Escambia County v. McMillan · 466 U.S. 48 (1984)

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