Hanover Shoe, Inc. v. United Shoe Machinery Corp.

Decided June 17, 1968. Byron Raymond White delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 335 · 392 U.S. 481 (1968) · Cited 921 times

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How the Justices voted

Decided 7–1.

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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.

• American Tobacco Co. v. United States · 328 U.S. 781 (1946)
• Southern Pacific Co. v. Darnell-Taenzer Lumber Co. · 245 U.S. 531 (1918)
• United Shoe MacHinery Corp. v. United States · 347 U.S. 521 (1954)
• Thomsen v. Cayser · 243 U.S. 66 (1917)
• Keogh v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. · 260 U.S. 156 (1922)
• Emich Motors Corp. v. General Motors Corp. · 340 U.S. 558 (1951)
• United Shoe MacHinery Corp. v. United States · 258 U.S. 451 (1922)
• United States v. United Shoe Machinery Co. of New Jersey · 247 U.S. 32 (1917)
• United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · 310 U.S. 150 (1940)
• Commissioner v. Glenshaw Glass Co. · 348 U.S. 426 (1955)
• United States v. Swift & Co. · 286 U.S. 106 (1932)
• Continental Ore Co. v. Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. · 370 U.S. 690 (1962)
• United States v. Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. · 321 U.S. 707 (1944)
• United States v. Loew's Inc. · 371 U.S. 38 (1962)
• United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · 340 U.S. 76 (1950)
• United States v. International Harvester Co. · 274 U.S. 693 (1927)
• Interstate Commerce Commission v. United States Ex Rel. Campbell · 289 U.S. 385 (1933)

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• Apple, Inc. v. Pepper · 587 U.S. 273 (2019)
• Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois · 431 U.S. 720 (1977)
• Kansas v. UtiliCorp United Inc. · 497 U.S. 199 (1990)
• Associated General Contractors of California, Inc. v. California State Council of Carpenters · 459 U.S. 519 (1983)
• McKesson Corp. v. Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco, Fla. Dept. of Business Regulation · 496 U.S. 18 (1990)
• Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Inc. · 550 U.S. 618 (2007)
• Harper v. Virginia Department of Taxation · 509 U.S. 86 (1993)
• United States v. Johnson · 457 U.S. 537 (1982)
• United States v. Peltier · 422 U.S. 531 (1975)
• Blue Shield of Va. v. McCready · 457 U.S. 465 (1982)
• Hawaii v. Standard Oil Co. of Cal. · 405 U.S. 251 (1972)
• Solem v. Stumes · 465 U.S. 638 (1984)
• Reynoldsville Casket Co. v. Hyde · 514 U.S. 749 (1995)
• Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson · 404 U.S. 97 (1971)
• Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · 395 U.S. 100 (1969)
• Reiter v. Sonotone Corp. · 442 U.S. 330 (1979)
• Lemon v. Kurtzman · 411 U.S. 192 (1973)
• California v. ARC America Corp. · 490 U.S. 93 (1989)
• Klehr v. A. O. Smith Corp. · 521 U.S. 179 (1997)
• Hughes Tool Co. v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. · 409 U.S. 363 (1973)
• American Trucking Assns., Inc. v. Smith · 496 U.S. 167 (1990)

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