Kirby Forest Industries, Inc. v. United States

Decided May 21, 1984. Thurgood Marshall delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 82-1994 · 467 U.S. 1 (1984) · Cited 515 times

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How the Justices voted

Decided 9–0.

“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.

• Danforth v. United States · 308 U.S. 271 (1939)
• United States v. 564.54 Acres of Monroe and Pike County Land · 441 U.S. 506 (1979)
• Agins v. City of Tiburon · 447 U.S. 255 (1980)
• Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · 438 U.S. 104 (1978)
• Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon · 260 U.S. 393 (1922)
• Andrus v. Allard · 444 U.S. 51 (1979)
• Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co. · 272 U.S. 365 (1926)
• United States v. Miller · 317 U.S. 369 (1943)
• Armstrong v. United States · 364 U.S. 40 (1960)
• United States v. Dickinson · 331 U.S. 745 (1947)
• Seaboard Air Line Railway Co. v. United States · 261 U.S. 299 (1923)
• United States v. Dow · 357 U.S. 17 (1958)
• United States v. Clarke · 445 U.S. 253 (1980)
• United States v. Commodities Trading Corp. · 339 U.S. 121 (1950)
• United States v. Merz · 376 U.S. 192 (1964)
• Phelps v. United States · 274 U.S. 341 (1927)
• Albert Hanson Lumber Co. v. United States · 261 U.S. 581 (1923)
• United States v. Bodcaw Co. · 440 U.S. 202 (1979)

Cited by

Later Supreme Court opinions in our collection that cite this case.

• First English Evangelical Lutheran Church v. County of Los Angeles · 482 U.S. 304 (1987)
• Brown v. Legal Foundation of Washington · 538 U.S. 216 (2003)
• United States v. 50 Acres of Land · 469 U.S. 24 (1984)
• City of Monterey v. Del Monte Dunes at Monterey, Ltd. · 526 U.S. 687 (1999)
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Wyoming · 460 U.S. 226 (1983)
• Republic of Austria v. Altmann · 541 U.S. 677 (2004)

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