First National Bank of Arizona v. Cities Service Co.

Decided May 20, 1968. Thurgood Marshall delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 23 · 391 U.S. 253 (1968) · Cited 5,431 times

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How the Justices voted

Decided 5–3.

“Concurring” means agreeing with the outcome; any split shown is the Court’s judgment, not each Justice’s reasoning. Source: the Supreme Court Database (Spaeth et al.), Washington University.

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.

• Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. · 368 U.S. 464 (1962)
• Theatre Enterprises, Inc. v. Paramount Film Distributing Corp. · 346 U.S. 537 (1954)
• Interstate Circuit, Inc. v. United States · 306 U.S. 208 (1939)
• United States v. Parke, Davis & Co. · 362 U.S. 29 (1960)

Cited by

Later Supreme Court opinions in our collection that cite this case.

• Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · 475 U.S. 574 (1986)
• Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · 477 U.S. 242 (1986)
• Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, Administratrix of the Estate of Catrett · 477 U.S. 317 (1986)
• Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · 398 U.S. 144 (1970)
• Lujan v. National Wildlife Federation · 497 U.S. 871 (1990)
• Eastman Kodak Co. v. Image Technical Services, Inc. · 504 U.S. 451 (1992)
• United States v. Kras · 409 U.S. 434 (1973)

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