Garner et al. v. Louisiana

Decided December 11, 1961. Earl Warren delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 26 · 368 U.S. 157 (1961) · Cited 486 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.

• Thompson v. City of Louisville · 362 U.S. 199 (1960)
• Cantwell v. Connecticut · 310 U.S. 296 (1940)
• Munn v. Illinois · 94 U.S. 113 (1877)
• Nebbia v. New York · 291 U.S. 502 (1934)
• Plessy v. Ferguson · 163 U.S. 537 (1896)
• Hebert v. Louisiana · 272 U.S. 312 (1926)
• Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire · 315 U.S. 568 (1942)
• Lanzetta v. New Jersey · 306 U.S. 451 (1939)
• Terminiello v. Chicago · 337 U.S. 1 (1949)
• Civil Rights Cases · 109 U.S. 3 (1883)
• Ohio Bell Telephone Co. v. Public Utilities Commission · 301 U.S. 292 (1937)
• Boynton v. Virginia · 364 U.S. 454 (1960)
• Thornhill v. Alabama · 310 U.S. 88 (1940)
• Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority · 365 U.S. 715 (1961)
• Winters v. New York · 333 U.S. 507 (1948)
• Cole v. Arkansas · 333 U.S. 196 (1948)
• Buchanan v. Warley · 245 U.S. 60 (1916)
• Herndon v. Lowry · 301 U.S. 242 (1937)
• Monroe v. Pape · 365 U.S. 167 (1961)
• Brown v. Board of Education · 347 U.S. 483 (1954)
• Railroad Comm'n of Tex. v. Pullman Co. · 312 U.S. 496 (1941)
• National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Alabama Ex Rel. Patterson · 357 U.S. 449 (1958)
• West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette · 319 U.S. 624 (1943)
• Screws v. United States · 325 U.S. 91 (1945)
• Stromberg v. California · 283 U.S. 359 (1931)
• Smith v. California · 361 U.S. 147 (1959)
• Kovacs v. Cooper · 336 U.S. 77 (1949)
• Schenck v. United States · 249 U.S. 47 (1919)
• Gitlow v. New York · 268 U.S. 652 (1925)
• Whitney v. California · 274 U.S. 357 (1927)

Cited by

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

• Brown v. Louisiana · 383 U.S. 131 (1966)
• Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · 398 U.S. 144 (1970)
• Grayned v. City of Rockford · 408 U.S. 104 (1972)
• Edwards v. South Carolina · 372 U.S. 229 (1963)
• Gregory v. City of Chicago · 394 U.S. 111 (1969)
• Boykin v. Alabama · 395 U.S. 238 (1969)
• Broadrick v. Oklahoma · 413 U.S. 601 (1973)
• Brown v. Ohio · 432 U.S. 161 (1977)
• United States v. Dixon · 509 U.S. 688 (1993)
• Wood v. Strickland · 420 U.S. 308 (1975)
• Fahy v. Connecticut · 375 U.S. 85 (1963)
• Police Dept. of Chicago v. Mosley · 408 U.S. 92 (1972)
• Cox v. Louisiana · 379 U.S. 536 (1965)
• Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham · 394 U.S. 147 (1969)
• Illinois v. Vitale · 447 U.S. 410 (1980)
• Moose Lodge No. 107 v. Irvis · 407 U.S. 163 (1972)
• McGautha v. California · 402 U.S. 183 (1971)
• United States v. Grace · 461 U.S. 171 (1983)
• Williams v. Illinois · 399 U.S. 235 (1970)
• Grosso v. United States · 390 U.S. 62 (1968)
• Adderley v. Florida · 385 U.S. 39 (1966)
• Welsh v. United States · 398 U.S. 333 (1970)
• Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Assn. · 564 U.S. 786 (2011)
• Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. v. Democratic National Committee · 412 U.S. 94 (1973)
• Wainwright v. Goode · 464 U.S. 78 (1983)
• Dunn v. United States · 442 U.S. 100 (1979)
• Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham · 382 U.S. 87 (1965)
• Bell v. Maryland · 378 U.S. 226 (1964)
• Estate of Thornton v. Caldor, Inc. · 472 U.S. 703 (1985)
• Wright v. Georgia · 373 U.S. 284 (1963)

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