Larson, War Assets Administrator and Surplus Property Administrator, v. Domestic and Foreign Commerce Corp.

Decided June 27, 1949. Frederick Moore Vinson delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 31 · 337 U.S. 682 (1949) · Cited 1,701 times

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How the Justices voted

Decided 6–3.

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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.

• Goltra v. Weeks · 271 U.S. 536 (1926)
• United States v. Lee · 106 U.S. 196 (1882)
• Land v. Dollar · 330 U.S. 731 (1947)
• Ickes v. Fox · 300 U.S. 82 (1937)
• Sloan Shipyards Corp. v. United States Shipping Bd. Emergency Fleet Corporation · 258 U.S. 549 (1922)
• Hopkins v. Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina · 221 U.S. 636 (1911)
• Philadelphia Co. v. Stimson · 223 U.S. 605 (1912)
• Louisiana v. McAdoo · 234 U.S. 627 (1914)
• Noble v. Union River Logging Railroad · 147 U.S. 165 (1893)
• Morrison v. Work · 266 U.S. 481 (1925)
• Osborn v. Bank of United States · 22 U.S. 738 (1824)
• Yearsley v. W. A. Ross Construction Co. · 309 U.S. 18 (1940)
• Crozier v. Fried. Krupp Aktiengesellschaft · 224 U.S. 290 (1912)
• Cunningham v. MacOn & Brunswick R. Co. · 109 U.S. 446 (1883)
• Reagan v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. · 154 U.S. 362 (1894)
• Fitts v. McGhee · 172 U.S. 516 (1899)
• Pennoyer v. McConnaughy · 140 U.S. 1 (1891)
• Richmond Screw Anchor Co. v. United States · 275 U.S. 331 (1928)
• Board of Liquidation v. McComb · 92 U.S. 531 (1876)
• Tindal v. Wesley · 167 U.S. 204 (1897)
• Smyth v. Ames · 169 U.S. 466 (1898)
• Great Northern Life Insurance Co. v. Read · 322 U.S. 47 (1944)
• Tennessee Electric Power Co. v. Tennessee Valley Authority · 306 U.S. 118 (1939)
• Scranton v. Wheeler · 179 U.S. 141 (1900)
• Kennecott Copper Corp. v. State Tax Commission · 327 U.S. 573 (1946)
• Hawks v. Hamill · 288 U.S. 52 (1933)
• Worcester County Trust Co. v. Riley · 302 U.S. 292 (1937)
• Mine Safety Appliances Co. v. Forrestal · 326 U.S. 371 (1946)
• Hooe v. United States · 218 U.S. 322 (1910)
• Bell v. Hood · 327 U.S. 678 (1946)

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• Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · 465 U.S. 89 (1984)
• Florida Department of State v. Treasure Salvors, Inc. · 458 U.S. 670 (1982)
• Malone v. Bowdoin · 369 U.S. 643 (1962)
• Idaho v. Coeur D'Alene Tribe of Idaho · 521 U.S. 261 (1997)
• Dugan v. Rank · 372 U.S. 609 (1963)
• Bowen v. Massachusetts · 487 U.S. 879 (1988)
• Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath · 341 U.S. 123 (1951)
• Stafford v. Briggs · 444 U.S. 527 (1980)
• Block v. North Dakota Ex Rel. Board of University & School Lands · 461 U.S. 273 (1983)
• International Primate Protection League v. Administrators of Tulane Educational Fund · 500 U.S. 72 (1991)
• Nixon v. Fitzgerald · 457 U.S. 731 (1982)
• Gillespie v. United States Steel Corp. · 379 U.S. 148 (1964)
• Knick v. Township of Scott · 588 U.S. 180 (2019)
• Lewis v. Clarke · 581 U.S. 155 (2017)
• Dalton v. Specter · 511 U.S. 462 (1994)
• National City Bank of NY v. Republic of China · 348 U.S. 356 (1955)
• Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida · 517 U.S. 44 (1996)
• Davis v. Passman · 442 U.S. 228 (1979)
• Brown v. General Services Administration · 425 U.S. 820 (1976)
• Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer · 343 U.S. 579 (1952)
• Ruckelshaus v. Monsanto Co. · 467 U.S. 986 (1984)
• Hodel v. Virginia Surface Mining & Reclamation Assn., Inc. · 452 U.S. 264 (1981)
• Welch v. Texas Department of Highways & Public Transportation · 483 U.S. 468 (1987)
• Finley v. United States · 490 U.S. 545 (1989)
• Glidden Co. v. Zdanok · 370 U.S. 530 (1962)
• Employees of Department of Public Health v. Department of Public Health · 411 U.S. 279 (1973)
• Hoffman v. Connecticut Department of Income Maintenance · 492 U.S. 96 (1989)
• Hawaii v. Gordon · 373 U.S. 57 (1963)
• Kern-Limerick, Inc. v. Scurlock · 347 U.S. 110 (1954)
• Georgia Railroad & Banking Co. v. Redwine · 342 U.S. 299 (1952)

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