Kassel, Director of Transportation, et al. v. Consolidated Freightways Corporation of Delaware

Decided March 24, 1981. Lewis Franklin Powell Jr. delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 79-1320 · 450 U.S. 662 (1981) · Cited 295 times

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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.

• Raymond Motor Transportation, Inc. v. Rice · 434 U.S. 429 (1978)
• Bibb v. Navajo Freight Lines, Inc. · 359 U.S. 520 (1959)
• Allied Stores of Ohio, Inc. v. Bowers · 358 U.S. 522 (1959)
• Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad · 393 U.S. 129 (1968)
• United States Railroad Retirement Board v. Fritz · 449 U.S. 166 (1980)
• South Carolina State Highway Department v. Barnwell Bros. · 303 U.S. 177 (1938)
• Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc. · 397 U.S. 137 (1970)
• Sproles v. Binford · 286 U.S. 374 (1932)
• Minnesota v. Clover Leaf Creamery Co. · 449 U.S. 456 (1981)
• City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey · 437 U.S. 617 (1978)
• McGinnis v. Royster · 410 U.S. 263 (1973)
• Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Cottrell · 424 U.S. 366 (1976)
• Wheeling Steel Corp. v. Glander · 337 U.S. 562 (1949)
• Massachusetts Board of Retirement v. Murgia · 427 U.S. 307 (1976)
• Johnson v. Robison · 415 U.S. 361 (1974)
• Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld · 420 U.S. 636 (1975)
• Railway Express Agency, Inc. v. New York · 336 U.S. 106 (1949)
• Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · 429 U.S. 252 (1977)
• Hunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising Commission · 432 U.S. 333 (1977)
• West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish · 300 U.S. 379 (1937)
• Huron Portland Cement Co. v. City of Detroit · 362 U.S. 440 (1960)
• Baldwin v. G. A. F. Seelig, Inc. · 294 U.S. 511 (1935)
• H. P. Hood & Sons, Inc. v. Du Mond · 336 U.S. 525 (1949)
• Hughes v. Alexandria Scrap Corp. · 426 U.S. 794 (1976)
• Clark v. Paul Gray, Inc. · 306 U.S. 583 (1939)
• Louisville Gas & Electric Co. v. Coleman · 277 U.S. 32 (1928)
• Califano v. Goldfarb · 430 U.S. 199 (1977)
• SHERLOCK v. Alling, AdmInistrator · 93 U.S. 99 (1876)
• Northwest Airlines, Inc. v. Minnesota · 322 U.S. 292 (1944)
• Southwestern Oil Co. v. Texas · 217 U.S. 114 (1910)

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• Hillsborough County v. Automated Medical Laboratories, Inc. · 471 U.S. 707 (1985)
• Nordlinger v. Hahn · 505 U.S. 1 (1992)
• CTS Corp. v. Dynamics Corp. of America · 481 U.S. 69 (1987)
• General Motors Corp. v. Tracy · 519 U.S. 278 (1997)
• National Pork Producers Council v. Ross · 598 U.S. 356 (2023)
• Quill Corp. v. North Dakota Ex Rel. Heitkamp · 504 U.S. 298 (1992)
• C & a Carbone, Inc. v. Town of Clarkstown · 511 U.S. 383 (1994)
• Camps Newfound/Owatonna, Inc. v. Town of Harrison · 520 U.S. 564 (1997)
• Fort Gratiot Sanitary Landfill, Inc. v. Michigan Department of Natural Resources · 504 U.S. 353 (1992)
• Kraft General Foods, Inc. v. Iowa Department of Revenue & Finance · 505 U.S. 71 (1992)

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