Mishkin v. New York

Decided March 21, 1966. William Joseph Brennan Jr. delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 49 · 383 U.S. 502 (1966) · Cited 464 times

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How the Justices voted

Decided 6–3.

“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.

• Roth v. United States · 354 U.S. 476 (1957)
• Smith v. California · 361 U.S. 147 (1959)
• Marcus v. Search Warrant of Property · 367 U.S. 717 (1961)
• A Quantity of Copies of Books v. Kansas · 378 U.S. 205 (1964)
• Screws v. United States · 325 U.S. 91 (1945)
• Speiser v. Randall · 357 U.S. 513 (1958)
• American Communications Assn. v. Douds · 339 U.S. 382 (1950)
• Boyce Motor Lines, Inc. v. United States · 342 U.S. 337 (1952)
• Manual Enterprises, Inc. v. Day · 370 U.S. 478 (1962)
• United States v. Ragen · 314 U.S. 513 (1942)
• Hygrade Provision Co. v. Sherman · 266 U.S. 497 (1925)
• Omaechevarria v. Idaho · 246 U.S. 343 (1918)
• Gorin v. United States · 312 U.S. 19 (1941)
• Prudential Insurance Co. of America v. Cheek · 259 U.S. 530 (1922)

Cited by

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

• Hamling v. United States · 418 U.S. 87 (1974)
• Miller v. California · 413 U.S. 15 (1973)
• Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton · 413 U.S. 49 (1973)
• Counterman v. Colorado · 600 U.S. 66 (2023)
• Elonis v. United States · 575 U.S. 723 (2015)
• Kaplan v. California · 413 U.S. 115 (1973)
• Bankers Life & Casualty Co. v. Crenshaw · 486 U.S. 71 (1988)
• Ginsberg v. New York · 390 U.S. 629 (1968)
• Heller v. New York · 413 U.S. 483 (1973)
• Ward v. Illinois · 431 U.S. 767 (1977)
• Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · 387 U.S. 136 (1967)
• FW/PBS, Inc. v. City of Dallas · 493 U.S. 215 (1990)
• Stanley v. Georgia · 394 U.S. 557 (1969)
• Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. Cohn · 420 U.S. 469 (1975)
• United States v. Playboy Entertainment Group, Inc. · 529 U.S. 803 (2000)
• Osborne v. Ohio · 495 U.S. 103 (1990)
• Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Assn. · 564 U.S. 786 (2011)
• Palmore v. United States · 411 U.S. 389 (1973)
• Gomez v. Perez · 409 U.S. 535 (1973)
• Interstate Circuit, Inc. v. City of Dallas · 390 U.S. 676 (1968)
• Wainwright v. Stone · 414 U.S. 21 (1973)
• Smith v. United States · 431 U.S. 291 (1977)

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