Complete Auto Transit, Inc. v. Brady, Chairman, Mississippi Tax Commission

Decided March 7, 1977. Harry Andrew Blackmun delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 76-29 · 430 U.S. 274 (1977) · Cited 1,211 times

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How the Justices voted

Decided 9–0.

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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.

• Freeman v. Hewit · 329 U.S. 249 (1946)
• Memphis Natural Gas Co. v. Stone · 335 U.S. 80 (1948)
• Spector Motor Service, Inc. v. O'Connor · 340 U.S. 602 (1951)
• Western Live Stock v. Bureau of Revenue · 303 U.S. 250 (1938)
• Northwestern States Portland Cement Co. v. Minnesota · 358 U.S. 450 (1959)
• General Motors Corp. v. Washington · 377 U.S. 436 (1964)
• Wisconsin v. J. C. Penney Co. · 311 U.S. 435 (1941)
• Clark v. Paul Gray, Inc. · 306 U.S. 583 (1939)
• Boston Stock Exchange v. State Tax Commission · 429 U.S. 318 (1977)
• Standard Pressed Steel Co. v. Department of Revenue of Wash. · 419 U.S. 560 (1975)
• State Tax on Railway Gross Receipts. Reading Railroad Company v. Pennsylvania · 82 U.S. 284 (1873)

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• Quill Corp. v. North Dakota Ex Rel. Heitkamp · 504 U.S. 298 (1992)
• Commonwealth Edison Co. v. Montana · 453 U.S. 609 (1981)
• Comptroller of Treasury of Md. v. Wynne · 575 U.S. 542 (2015)
• American Trucking Assns., Inc. v. Scheiner · 483 U.S. 266 (1987)
• Department of Revenue v. Ass'n of Washington Stevedoring Companies · 435 U.S. 734 (1978)
• South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. · 585 U.S. 162 (2018)
• Goldberg v. Sweet · 488 U.S. 252 (1989)
• Oklahoma Tax Commission v. Jefferson Lines, Inc. · 514 U.S. 175 (1995)
• American Trucking Assns., Inc. v. Smith · 496 U.S. 167 (1990)
• D. H. Holmes Co., Ltd. v. McNamara · 486 U.S. 24 (1988)
• Trinova Corp. v. Michigan Department of Treasury · 498 U.S. 358 (1991)
• Washington v. Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indian Reservation · 447 U.S. 134 (1980)
• Western & Southern Life Ins. Co. v. State Bd. of Equalization of Cal. · 451 U.S. 648 (1981)
• Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe · 455 U.S. 130 (1982)
• Mobil Oil Corp. v. Commissioner of Taxes of Vt. · 445 U.S. 425 (1980)
• Armco Inc. v. Hardesty · 467 U.S. 638 (1984)
• Fulton Corp. v. Faulkner · 516 U.S. 325 (1996)
• Amerada Hess Corp. v. Director, Division of Taxation, New Jersey Department of the Treasury · 490 U.S. 66 (1989)
• United States v. International Business MacHines Corp. · 517 U.S. 843 (1996)
• Barclays Bank PLC v. Franchise Tax Bd. of Cal. · 512 U.S. 298 (1994)
• American Trucking Associations, Inc. v. Michigan Public Service Commission · 545 U.S. 429 (2005)
• Payne v. Tennessee · 501 U.S. 808 (1991)
• California v. Acevedo · 500 U.S. 565 (1991)
• Maryland v. Louisiana · 451 U.S. 725 (1981)
• Boos v. Barry · 485 U.S. 312 (1988)
• Oregon Waste Systems, Inc. v. Department of Environmental Quality of Ore. · 511 U.S. 93 (1994)
• Wardair Canada Inc. v. Florida Department of Revenue · 477 U.S. 1 (1986)
• Cory v. White · 457 U.S. 85 (1982)
• Camps Newfound/Owatonna, Inc. v. Town of Harrison · 520 U.S. 564 (1997)
• Japan Line, Ltd. v. County of Los Angeles · 441 U.S. 434 (1979)

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