Jones et Ux. v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. et al.

Decided June 17, 1968. Potter Stewart delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 645 · 392 U.S. 409 (1968) · Cited 1,168 times

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How the Justices voted

Decided 7–2.

“Concurring” means agreeing with the outcome; any split shown is the Court’s judgment, not each Justice’s reasoning. Source: the Supreme Court Database (Spaeth et al.), Washington University.

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.

• Civil Rights Cases · 109 U.S. 3 (1883)
• Hurd v. Hodge · 334 U.S. 24 (1948)
• Corrigan v. Buckley · 271 U.S. 323 (1926)
• Virginia v. Rives · 100 U.S. 313 (1880)
• United States v. Price · 383 U.S. 787 (1966)
• Buchanan v. Warley · 245 U.S. 60 (1916)
• Shelley v. Kraemer · 334 U.S. 1 (1948)
• Brown v. Board of Education · 349 U.S. 294 (1955)
• Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States · 379 U.S. 241 (1964)
• Griffin v. School Bd. of Prince Edward Cty. · 377 U.S. 218 (1964)
• Bell v. Hood · 327 U.S. 678 (1946)
• Brown v. Board of Education · 347 U.S. 483 (1954)
• Haguer v. Committee for Industrial Organization · 307 U.S. 496 (1939)
• Loving v. Virginia · 388 U.S. 1 (1967)
• Screws v. United States · 325 U.S. 91 (1945)
• J. I. Case Co. v. Borak · 377 U.S. 426 (1964)
• Strauder v. West Virginia · 100 U.S. 303 (1880)
• United States v. Cruikshank · 92 U.S. 542 (1876)
• Green v. County School Board of New Kent County · 391 U.S. 430 (1968)
• Steele v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · 323 U.S. 192 (1944)
• Plessy v. Ferguson · 163 U.S. 537 (1896)
• Cooper v. Aaron · 358 U.S. 1 (1958)
• Douglas v. City of Jeannette · 319 U.S. 157 (1943)
• Georgia v. Rachel · 384 U.S. 780 (1966)
• United States v. Borden Co. · 308 U.S. 188 (1939)
• Reitman v. Mulkey · 387 U.S. 369 (1967)
• Katzenbach v. McClung · 379 U.S. 294 (1964)
• Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Rigsby · 241 U.S. 33 (1916)
• Texas & NOR Co. v. Brotherhood of Ry. & Steamship Clerks · 281 U.S. 548 (1930)
• Deckert v. Independence Shares Corp. · 311 U.S. 282 (1940)

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• Runyon v. McCrary · 427 U.S. 160 (1976)
• Patterson v. McLean Credit Union · 491 U.S. 164 (1989)
• City of Memphis v. Greene · 451 U.S. 100 (1981)
• Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · 398 U.S. 144 (1970)
• Sullivan v. Little Hunting Park, Inc. · 396 U.S. 229 (1969)
• Comcast Corp. v. National Assn. of African-American Owned Media · 589 U.S. 327 (2020)
• General Building Contractors Assn., Inc. v. Pennsylvania · 458 U.S. 375 (1982)
• Jett v. Dallas Independent School District · 491 U.S. 701 (1989)
• CBOCS West, Inc. v. Humphries · 553 U.S. 442 (2008)
• Cannon v. University of Chicago · 441 U.S. 677 (1979)
• Chapman v. Houston Welfare Rights Organization · 441 U.S. 600 (1979)
• Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · 421 U.S. 454 (1975)
• McDonald v. Santa Fe Trail Transportation Co. · 427 U.S. 273 (1976)
• Great American Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Novotny · 442 U.S. 366 (1979)
• District of Columbia v. Carter · 409 U.S. 418 (1973)
• Palmer v. Thompson · 403 U.S. 217 (1971)
• Jam v. International Finance Corp. · 586 U.S. 199 (2019)
• Griffin v. Breckenridge · 403 U.S. 88 (1971)
• Flagg Bros., Inc. v. Brooks · 436 U.S. 149 (1978)
• Gladstone, Realtors v. Village of Bellwood · 441 U.S. 91 (1979)
• Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez · 436 U.S. 49 (1978)
• Fullilove v. Klutznick · 448 U.S. 448 (1980)
• Lynch v. Household Finance Corp. · 405 U.S. 538 (1972)
• Hunter v. Erickson · 393 U.S. 385 (1969)
• Neitzke v. Williams · 490 U.S. 319 (1989)
• Briscoe v. LaHue · 460 U.S. 325 (1983)
• Havens Realty Corp. v. Coleman · 455 U.S. 363 (1982)
• Brown v. General Services Administration · 425 U.S. 820 (1976)
• Touche Ross & Co. v. Redington · 442 U.S. 560 (1979)
• Regents of the University of California v. Bakke · 438 U.S. 265 (1978)

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