Linda Lingle, Governor of Hawaii, et al. v. Chevron U.S.A. Inc.

Decided May 23, 2005. Sandra Day O'Connor delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 04-163 · 544 U.S. 528 (2005) · Cited 1,235 times

Holding

Agins’ “substantially advance” formula is not an appropriate test for determining whether a regulation effects a Fifth Amendment taking.

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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.

• Agins v. City of Tiburon · 447 U.S. 255 (1980)
• Dolan v. City of Tigard · 512 U.S. 374 (1994)
• Nollan v. California Coastal Commission · 483 U.S. 825 (1987)
• Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council · 505 U.S. 1003 (1992)
• Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · 438 U.S. 104 (1978)
• Nectow v. City of Cambridge · 277 U.S. 183 (1928)
• Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon · 260 U.S. 393 (1922)
• First English Evangelical Lutheran Church v. County of Los Angeles · 482 U.S. 304 (1987)
• City of Monterey v. Del Monte Dunes at Monterey, Ltd. · 526 U.S. 687 (1999)
• Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co. · 272 U.S. 365 (1926)
• Loretto v. Teleprompter Manhattan CATV Corp. · 458 U.S. 419 (1982)
• Armstrong v. United States · 364 U.S. 40 (1960)
• Palazzolo v. Rhode Island · 533 U.S. 606 (2001)
• Goldblatt v. Town of Hempstead · 369 U.S. 590 (1962)
• Eastern Enterprises v. Apfel · 524 U.S. 498 (1998)
• County of Sacramento v. Lewis · 523 U.S. 833 (1998)
• Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank of Johnson City · 473 U.S. 172 (1985)
• Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Chicago · 166 U.S. 226 (1897)
• Keystone Bituminous Coal Assn. v. DeBenedictis · 480 U.S. 470 (1987)
• Ferguson v. Skrupa · 372 U.S. 726 (1963)
• Yee v. City of Escondido · 503 U.S. 519 (1992)
• Kaiser Aetna v. United States · 444 U.S. 164 (1979)
• Lawton v. Steele · 152 U.S. 133 (1894)
• United States v. General Motors Corp. · 323 U.S. 373 (1945)
• Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council, Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency · 535 U.S. 302 (2002)
• Exxon Corp. v. Governor of Maryland · 437 U.S. 117 (1978)
• United States v. Riverside Bayview Homes, Inc. · 474 U.S. 121 (1985)
• Monongahela Navigation Co. v. United States · 148 U.S. 312 (1893)
• Andrus v. Allard · 444 U.S. 51 (1979)
• Rowan v. United States Post Office Department · 397 U.S. 728 (1970)

Cited by

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

• Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management Dist. · 570 U.S. 595 (2013)
• Murr v. Wisconsin · 582 U.S. 383 (2017)
• Horne v. Department of Agriculture · 576 U.S. 351 (2015)
• Kelo v. City of New London · 545 U.S. 469 (2005)
• Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid · 594 U.S. 139 (2021)
• San Remo Hotel, L. P. v. City & County of San Francisco · 545 U.S. 323 (2005)
• PennEast Pipeline Co. v. New Jersey · 594 U.S. 482 (2021)

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Source: Supreme Court of the United States, slip opinions (2005). Citation count from the Free Law Project’s CourtListener bulk data. Data last verified 2026-07-03. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).