Gomillion et al. v. Lightfoot, Mayor of Tuskegee, et al.

Decided November 14, 1960. Felix Frankfurter delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 32 · 364 U.S. 339 (1960) · Cited 1,079 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.

• Colegrove v. Green · 328 U.S. 549 (1946)
• Brown v. Board of Education · 347 U.S. 483 (1954)
• Cooper v. Aaron · 358 U.S. 1 (1958)
• Boyd's Lessee v. Graves · 17 U.S. 513 (1819)
• Lane v. Wilson · 307 U.S. 268 (1939)
• City of Trenton v. New Jersey · 262 U.S. 182 (1923)
• Frost & Frost Trucking Co. v. Railroad Comm'n of Cal. · 271 U.S. 583 (1926)
• Nixon v. Herndon · 273 U.S. 536 (1927)
• Commissioners of Laramie County v. COMMISSIONERS OF ALBANY COUNTY · 92 U.S. 307 (1876)
• Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Foster · 247 U.S. 105 (1918)
• City of Pawhuska v. Pawhuska Oil & Gas Co. · 250 U.S. 394 (1919)
• South v. Peters · 339 U.S. 276 (1950)

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• Shaw v. Reno · 509 U.S. 630 (1993)
• City of Mobile v. Bolden · 446 U.S. 55 (1980)
• Bush v. Vera · 517 U.S. 952 (1996)
• Holder v. Hall · 512 U.S. 874 (1994)
• WRIGHT Et Al. v. ROCKEFELLER, GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK, Et Al. · 376 U.S. 52 (1964)
• Baker v. Carr · 369 U.S. 186 (1962)
• Karcher v. Daggett · 462 U.S. 725 (1983)
• Vieth v. Jubelirer · 541 U.S. 267 (2004)
• United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburgh, Inc. v. Carey · 430 U.S. 144 (1977)
• Beer v. United States · 425 U.S. 130 (1976)
• Reynolds v. Sims · 377 U.S. 533 (1964)
• Reno v. Bossier Parish School Board · 528 U.S. 320 (2000)
• Miller v. Johnson · 515 U.S. 900 (1995)
• McCleskey v. Kemp · 481 U.S. 279 (1987)
• Castaneda v. Partida · 430 U.S. 482 (1977)
• Whitcomb v. Chavis · 403 U.S. 124 (1971)
• Palmer v. Thompson · 403 U.S. 217 (1971)
• Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP · 602 U.S. 1 (2024)
• Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · 429 U.S. 252 (1977)
• United States v. O'Brien · 391 U.S. 367 (1968)
• Hunt v. Cromartie · 526 U.S. 541 (1999)
• South Carolina v. Katzenbach · 383 U.S. 301 (1966)
• Allen v. State Board of Elections · 393 U.S. 544 (1969)
• Gray v. Sanders · 372 U.S. 368 (1963)
• Chisom v. Roemer · 501 U.S. 380 (1991)
• Rucho v. Common Cause · 588 U.S. 684 (2019)
• Exxon Co., USA v. Sofec, Inc. · 517 U.S. 830 (1996)
• Hernandez v. New York · 500 U.S. 352 (1991)
• Personnel Administrator of Mass. v. Feeney · 442 U.S. 256 (1979)
• Milliken v. Bradley · 418 U.S. 717 (1974)

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