Hughes, Secretary of Transportation of Maryland, et al. v. Alexandria Scrap Corp.

Decided June 24, 1976. Lewis Franklin Powell Jr. delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 74-1607 · 426 U.S. 794 (1976) · Cited 454 times

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How the Justices voted

Decided 6–3.

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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.

• Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc. · 397 U.S. 137 (1970)
• H. P. Hood & Sons, Inc. v. Du Mond · 336 U.S. 525 (1949)
• Southern Pacific Co. v. Arizona Ex Rel. Sullivan · 325 U.S. 761 (1945)
• Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Cottrell · 424 U.S. 366 (1976)
• Dean Milk Co. v. City of Madison · 340 U.S. 349 (1951)
• Baldwin v. G. A. F. Seelig, Inc. · 294 U.S. 511 (1935)
• Pennsylvania v. West Virginia · 262 U.S. 553 (1923)
• Foster-Fountain Packing Co. v. Haydel · 278 U.S. 1 (1928)
• Toomer v. Witsell · 334 U.S. 385 (1948)
• WILLSON AND OTHERS v. the Black Bird Creek Marsh Company · 27 U.S. 245 (1829)
• Blake v. McClung · 172 U.S. 239 (1898)
• Best & Co. v. Maxwell · 311 U.S. 454 (1940)
• Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Co. v. Reily · 373 U.S. 64 (1963)
• Dandridge v. Williams · 397 U.S. 471 (1970)
• San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · 411 U.S. 1 (1973)
• Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · 348 U.S. 483 (1955)
• Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Paul · 373 U.S. 132 (1963)
• Katzenbach v. Morgan · 384 U.S. 641 (1966)
• Huron Portland Cement Co. v. City of Detroit · 362 U.S. 440 (1960)
• McGinnis v. Royster · 410 U.S. 263 (1973)
• Perkins v. Lukens Steel Co. · 310 U.S. 113 (1940)
• Bibb v. Navajo Freight Lines, Inc. · 359 U.S. 520 (1959)
• Buck v. Kuykendall · 267 U.S. 307 (1925)
• Nippert v. City of Richmond · 327 U.S. 416 (1946)
• Lemke v. Farmers Grain Co. of Embden · 258 U.S. 50 (1922)
• Shafer v. Farmers Grain Co. of Embden · 268 U.S. 189 (1925)
• Wheeling Steel Corp. v. Glander · 337 U.S. 562 (1949)

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• Department of Revenue of Kentucky v. Davis · 553 U.S. 328 (2008)
• Reeves, Inc. v. Stake · 447 U.S. 429 (1980)
• White v. Massachusetts Council of Construction Employers, Inc. · 460 U.S. 204 (1983)
• Camps Newfound/Owatonna, Inc. v. Town of Harrison · 520 U.S. 564 (1997)
• South-Central Timber Development, Inc. v. Wunnicke · 467 U.S. 82 (1984)
• City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey · 437 U.S. 617 (1978)
• New Energy Co. of Indiana v. Limbach · 486 U.S. 269 (1988)
• College Savings Bank v. Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board · 527 U.S. 666 (1999)
• McBurney v. Young · 569 U.S. 221 (2013)
• Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Ward · 470 U.S. 869 (1985)
• Exxon Corp. v. Governor of Maryland · 437 U.S. 117 (1978)
• Baldwin v. Fish and Game Comm'n of Mont. · 436 U.S. 371 (1978)
• Moorman Manufacturing Co. v. Bair · 437 U.S. 267 (1978)
• United Building & Constr. Trades Council of Camden Cty. v. Mayor and Council of Camden · 465 U.S. 208 (1984)
• West Lynn Creamery, Inc. v. Healy · 512 U.S. 186 (1994)
• Heller v. Doe Ex Rel. Doe · 509 U.S. 312 (1993)
• Vance v. Bradley · 440 U.S. 93 (1979)
• Minnesota v. Clover Leaf Creamery Co. · 449 U.S. 456 (1981)
• Oregon Waste Systems, Inc. v. Department of Environmental Quality of Ore. · 511 U.S. 93 (1994)
• Edgar v. Mite Corp. · 457 U.S. 624 (1982)
• Western & Southern Life Ins. Co. v. State Bd. of Equalization of Cal. · 451 U.S. 648 (1981)
• Zobel v. Williams · 457 U.S. 55 (1982)
• Wyoming v. Oklahoma · 502 U.S. 437 (1992)
• Raymond Motor Transportation, Inc. v. Rice · 434 U.S. 429 (1978)
• Wisconsin Department of Industry, Labor & Human Relations v. Gould Inc. · 475 U.S. 282 (1986)
• Kassel v. Consolidated Freightways Corp. of Del. · 450 U.S. 662 (1981)
• Chemical Waste Management, Inc. v. Hunt · 504 U.S. 334 (1992)
• Fort Gratiot Sanitary Landfill, Inc. v. Michigan Department of Natural Resources · 504 U.S. 353 (1992)
• South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. · 585 U.S. 162 (2018)

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