Kennedy, Attorney General, v. Mendoza-Martinez

Decided February 18, 1963. Arthur Joseph Goldberg delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 2 · 372 U.S. 144 (1963) · Cited 2,208 times

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How the Justices voted

Decided 5–4.

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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.

• Trop v. Dulles · 356 U.S. 86 (1958)
• Perez v. Brownell · 356 U.S. 44 (1958)
• Flemming v. Nestor · 363 U.S. 603 (1960)
• MacKenzie v. Hare · 239 U.S. 299 (1915)
• United States v. Constantine · 296 U.S. 287 (1935)
• Tot v. United States · 319 U.S. 463 (1943)
• United States v. Lovett · 328 U.S. 303 (1946)
• Savorgnan v. United States · 338 U.S. 491 (1950)
• Speiser v. Randall · 357 U.S. 513 (1958)
• Ex Parte Milligan · 71 U.S. 2 (1867)
• United States v. La Franca · 282 U.S. 568 (1931)
• Rusk v. Cort · 369 U.S. 367 (1962)
• Lipke v. Lederer · 259 U.S. 557 (1922)
• Kurtz v. Moffitt · 115 U.S. 487 (1885)
• Nishikawa v. Dulles · 356 U.S. 129 (1958)
• Helwig v. United States · 188 U.S. 605 (1903)
• Hirabayashi v. United States · 320 U.S. 81 (1943)
• Wong Wing v. United States · 163 U.S. 228 (1896)
• Ng Fung Ho v. White · 259 U.S. 276 (1922)
• Blackmer v. United States · 284 U.S. 421 (1932)
• Ex Parte Quirin · 317 U.S. 1 (1942)
• Ex Parte Endo · 323 U.S. 283 (1945)
• Ex Parte Wilson · 114 U.S. 417 (1885)
• MacKin v. United States · 117 U.S. 348 (1886)
• Manley v. Georgia · 279 U.S. 1 (1929)
• Cromwell v. County of Sac · 94 U.S. 351 (1877)
• Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. · 220 U.S. 61 (1911)
• Home Building & Loan Assn. v. Blaisdell · 290 U.S. 398 (1934)
• Shaughnessy v. United States Ex Rel. Mezei · 345 U.S. 206 (1953)
• Wieman v. Updegraff · 344 U.S. 183 (1952)

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• Bell v. Wolfish · 441 U.S. 520 (1979)
• Hudson v. United States · 522 U.S. 93 (1997)
• Smith v. Doe · 538 U.S. 84 (2003)
• United States v. Ward · 448 U.S. 242 (1980)
• Seling v. Young · 531 U.S. 250 (2001)
• Department of Revenue of Mont. v. Kurth Ranch · 511 U.S. 767 (1994)
• United States v. One Assortment of 89 Firearms · 465 U.S. 354 (1984)
• Austin v. United States · 509 U.S. 602 (1993)
• Schall v. Martin · 467 U.S. 253 (1984)
• Schneider v. Rusk · 377 U.S. 163 (1964)
• Mitchell v. Donovan · 398 U.S. 427 (1970)
• Kansas v. Hendricks · 521 U.S. 346 (1997)
• United States v. Halper · 490 U.S. 435 (1989)
• United States v. Brown · 381 U.S. 437 (1965)
• United States v. Barnett · 376 U.S. 681 (1964)
• Sandin v. Conner · 515 U.S. 472 (1995)
• Ingraham v. Wright · 430 U.S. 651 (1977)
• Nixon v. Administrator of General Services · 433 U.S. 425 (1977)
• Aptheker v. Secretary of State · 378 U.S. 500 (1964)
• United States v. O'Brien · 391 U.S. 367 (1968)
• Perez v. Ledesma · 401 U.S. 82 (1971)
• Browning-Ferris Industries of Vermont, Inc. v. Kelco Disposal, Inc. · 492 U.S. 257 (1989)
• Zemel v. Rusk · 381 U.S. 1 (1965)
• United States v. Robel · 389 U.S. 258 (1967)
• Afroyim v. Rusk · 387 U.S. 253 (1967)
• United States v. Salerno · 481 U.S. 739 (1987)
• Gerstein v. Pugh · 420 U.S. 103 (1975)
• Flast v. Cohen · 392 U.S. 83 (1968)
• Steffel v. Thompson · 415 U.S. 452 (1974)
• Hamdi v. Rumsfeld · 542 U.S. 507 (2004)

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