Flemming, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, v. Nestor

Decided June 20, 1960. John Marshall Harlan delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 54 · 363 U.S. 603 (1960) · Cited 1,508 times

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How the Justices voted

Decided 5–4.

“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.

• Ex Parte Garland · 71 U.S. 333 (1867)
• United States v. Lovett · 328 U.S. 303 (1946)
• Trop v. Dulles · 356 U.S. 86 (1958)
• Lynch v. United States · 292 U.S. 571 (1934)
• Galvan v. Press · 347 U.S. 522 (1954)
• Wong Wing v. United States · 163 U.S. 228 (1896)
• De Veau v. Braisted · 363 U.S. 144 (1960)
• Helvering v. Davis · 301 U.S. 619 (1937)
• Hawker v. New York · 170 U.S. 189 (1898)
• Rochin v. California · 342 U.S. 165 (1952)
• Helvering v. Mitchell · 303 U.S. 391 (1938)
• Carmichael v. Southern Coal & Coke Co. · 301 U.S. 495 (1937)
• United States v. Petrillo · 332 U.S. 1 (1947)
• Wieman v. Updegraff · 344 U.S. 183 (1952)
• Harisiades v. Shaughnessy · 342 U.S. 580 (1952)
• Dent v. West Virginia · 129 U.S. 114 (1889)
• Steward MacHine Co. v. Davis · 301 U.S. 548 (1937)
• Fong Yue Ting v. United States · 149 U.S. 698 (1893)
• Adamson v. California · 332 U.S. 46 (1947)
• Barenblatt v. United States · 360 U.S. 109 (1959)
• Levine v. United States · 362 U.S. 610 (1960)
• Social Security Board v. Nierotko · 327 U.S. 358 (1946)
• Anniston Manufacturing Co. v. Davis · 301 U.S. 337 (1937)
• Uphaus v. Wyman · 360 U.S. 72 (1959)
• Kessler v. Strecker · 307 U.S. 22 (1939)

Cited by

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• Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez · 372 U.S. 144 (1963)
• Selective Service System v. Minnesota Public Interest Research Group · 468 U.S. 841 (1984)
• Bell v. Wolfish · 441 U.S. 520 (1979)
• Weinberger v. Salfi · 422 U.S. 749 (1975)
• United States Railroad Retirement Board v. Fritz · 449 U.S. 166 (1980)
• Williams v. Illinois · 399 U.S. 235 (1970)
• Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld · 420 U.S. 636 (1975)
• Richardson v. Belcher · 404 U.S. 78 (1971)
• Smith v. Doe · 538 U.S. 84 (2003)
• Hudson v. United States · 522 U.S. 93 (1997)
• Wyman v. James · 400 U.S. 309 (1971)
• Califano v. Goldfarb · 430 U.S. 199 (1977)
• Bowen v. Public Agencies Opposed to Social Security Entrapment · 477 U.S. 41 (1986)
• Shapiro v. Thompson · 394 U.S. 618 (1969)
• Sherbert v. Verner · 374 U.S. 398 (1963)
• Rusk v. Cort · 369 U.S. 367 (1962)
• United States v. Fior D'Italia, Inc. · 536 U.S. 238 (2002)
• Mathews v. Eldridge · 424 U.S. 319 (1976)
• Nixon v. Administrator of General Services · 433 U.S. 425 (1977)
• United States v. Ward · 448 U.S. 242 (1980)
• Hisquierdo v. Hisquierdo · 439 U.S. 572 (1979)
• United States v. One Assortment of 89 Firearms · 465 U.S. 354 (1984)
• United States v. Brown · 381 U.S. 437 (1965)
• Atkins v. Parker · 472 U.S. 115 (1985)
• Richardson v. Perales · 402 U.S. 389 (1971)
• Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · 408 U.S. 564 (1972)
• Gerstein v. Pugh · 420 U.S. 103 (1975)
• Dandridge v. Williams · 397 U.S. 471 (1970)
• Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co. · 455 U.S. 422 (1982)
• Robinson v. Shell Oil Co. · 519 U.S. 337 (1997)

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