Izumi Seimitsu Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha v. U. S. Philips Corporation, et al.

Decided November 30, 1993. The Court ruled per curiam — an unsigned opinion of the Court.

Docket 92-1123 · 510 U.S. 27 (1993) · Cited 142 times

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How the Justices voted

Decided 7–2.

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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.

• Yee v. City of Escondido · 503 U.S. 519 (1992)
• United States v. Williams · 504 U.S. 36 (1992)
• Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation · 402 U.S. 313 (1971)
• Irvine v. California · 347 U.S. 128 (1954)
• Warth v. Seldin · 422 U.S. 490 (1975)
• City of Canton v. Harris · 489 U.S. 378 (1989)
• Berkemer v. McCarty · 468 U.S. 420 (1984)
• Stone v. Powell · 428 U.S. 465 (1976)
• City of Oklahoma v. Tuttle · 471 U.S. 808 (1985)
• Whitmore Ex Rel. Simmons v. Arkansas · 495 U.S. 149 (1990)
• United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. · 340 U.S. 36 (1950)
• Wood v. Georgia · 450 U.S. 261 (1981)
• Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Wetzel · 424 U.S. 737 (1976)
• Lake Country Estates, Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency · 440 U.S. 391 (1979)
• Radzanower v. Touche Ross & Co. · 426 U.S. 148 (1976)
• Mazer v. Stein · 347 U.S. 201 (1954)
• Cardinal Chemical Co. v. Morton International, Inc. · 508 U.S. 83 (1993)
• International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers, Local 283 v. Scofield · 382 U.S. 205 (1965)
• Neese v. Southern Railway Co. · 350 U.S. 77 (1955)
• General Talking Pictures Corp. v. Western Electric Co. · 304 U.S. 175 (1938)
• Boynton v. Virginia · 364 U.S. 454 (1960)

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• Caspari v. Bohlen · 510 U.S. 383 (1994)
• Norfolk Southern Railway Co. v. Sorrell · 549 U.S. 158 (2007)
• U.S. Bancorp Mortgage Co. v. Bonner Mall Partnership · 513 U.S. 18 (1994)
• Waters v. Churchill · 511 U.S. 661 (1994)
• Madsen v. Women's Health Center, Inc. · 512 U.S. 753 (1994)
• Hohn v. United States · 524 U.S. 236 (1998)
• Alvarez v. Smith · 558 U.S. 87 (2009)
• Missouri v. Jenkins · 515 U.S. 70 (1995)
• Pasquantino v. United States · 544 U.S. 349 (2005)
• Jefferson v. Upton · 560 U.S. 284 (2010)
• Hagen v. Utah · 510 U.S. 399 (1994)

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