Northwestern States Portland Cement Co. v. Minnesota

Decided February 24, 1959. Tom C. Clark delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 12 · 358 U.S. 450 (1959) · Cited 531 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.

• United States Glue Co. v. Town of Oak Creek · 247 U.S. 321 (1918)
• Spector Motor Service, Inc. v. O'Connor · 340 U.S. 602 (1951)
• Underwood Typewriter Co. v. Chamberlain · 254 U.S. 113 (1920)
• International Shoe Co. v. Washington · 326 U.S. 310 (1945)
• Freeman v. Hewit · 329 U.S. 249 (1946)
• Bass, Ratcliff & Gretton, Ltd. v. State Tax Commission · 266 U.S. 271 (1924)
• Wheeling Steel Corp. v. Fox · 298 U.S. 193 (1936)
• Shaffer v. Carter · 252 U.S. 37 (1920)
• Northwest Airlines, Inc. v. Minnesota · 322 U.S. 292 (1944)
• Interstate Busses Corp. v. Blodgett · 276 U.S. 245 (1928)
• Alpha Portland Cement Co. v. Massachusetts · 268 U.S. 203 (1925)
• Cheney Bros. Co. v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · 246 U.S. 147 (1916)
• Central Greyhound Lines, Inc. v. Mealey · 334 U.S. 653 (1948)
• Ozark Pipe Line Corp. v. Monier · 266 U.S. 555 (1925)
• Gibbons v. Ogden · 22 U.S. 1 (1824)
• Murdock v. Pennsylvania · 319 U.S. 105 (1943)
• Wisconsin v. J. C. Penney Co. · 311 U.S. 435 (1941)
• Robbins v. Shelby County Taxing District · 120 U.S. 489 (1887)
• Pullman's Palace Car Co. v. Pennsylvania · 141 U.S. 18 (1891)
• Miller Brothers Co. v. Maryland · 347 U.S. 340 (1954)
• Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. v. Texas · 210 U.S. 217 (1908)
• Leloup v. Port of Mobile · 127 U.S. 640 (1888)
• Nippert v. City of Richmond · 327 U.S. 416 (1946)
• J. D. Adams Manufacturing Co. v. Storen · 304 U.S. 307 (1938)
• Sprout v. South Bend · 277 U.S. 163 (1928)
• New York Ex Rel. Cohn v. Graves · 300 U.S. 308 (1937)
• Michigan-Wisconsin Pipe Line Co. v. Calvert · 347 U.S. 157 (1954)
• Wallace v. Hines · 253 U.S. 66 (1920)
• Ott v. Mississippi Valley Barge Line Co. · 336 U.S. 169 (1949)
• East Ohio Gas Co. v. Tax Comm'n of Ohio · 283 U.S. 465 (1931)

Cited by

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

• Wisconsin Department of Revenue v. William Wrigley, Jr., Co. · 505 U.S. 214 (1992)
• Quill Corp. v. North Dakota Ex Rel. Heitkamp · 504 U.S. 298 (1992)
• Oklahoma Tax Commission v. Jefferson Lines, Inc. · 514 U.S. 175 (1995)
• Mobil Oil Corp. v. Commissioner of Taxes of Vt. · 445 U.S. 425 (1980)
• Boston Stock Exchange v. State Tax Commission · 429 U.S. 318 (1977)
• Comptroller of Treasury of Md. v. Wynne · 575 U.S. 542 (2015)
• Eli Lilly & Co. v. Sav-On-Drugs, Inc. · 366 U.S. 276 (1961)
• Complete Auto Transit, Inc. v. Brady · 430 U.S. 274 (1977)
• Moorman Manufacturing Co. v. Bair · 437 U.S. 267 (1978)
• American Trucking Assns., Inc. v. Scheiner · 483 U.S. 266 (1987)
• General Motors Corp. v. Washington · 377 U.S. 436 (1964)
• ASARCO Inc. v. Idaho State Tax Commission · 458 U.S. 307 (1982)
• Department of Revenue v. Ass'n of Washington Stevedoring Companies · 435 U.S. 734 (1978)
• United States Steel Corp. v. Multistate Tax Commission · 434 U.S. 452 (1978)
• Westinghouse Electric Corp. v. Tully · 466 U.S. 388 (1984)
• Maryland v. Louisiana · 451 U.S. 725 (1981)
• Oregon Waste Systems, Inc. v. Department of Environmental Quality of Ore. · 511 U.S. 93 (1994)
• Bacchus Imports, Ltd. v. Dias · 468 U.S. 263 (1984)
• Camps Newfound/Owatonna, Inc. v. Town of Harrison · 520 U.S. 564 (1997)
• American Trucking Assns., Inc. v. Smith · 496 U.S. 167 (1990)
• National Bellas Hess, Inc. v. Department of Revenue · 386 U.S. 753 (1967)
• West Lynn Creamery, Inc. v. Healy · 512 U.S. 186 (1994)
• Tyler Pipe Industries, Inc. v. Washington State Department of Revenue · 483 U.S. 232 (1987)
• Exxon Corp. v. Department of Revenue of Wis. · 447 U.S. 207 (1980)
• Scripto, Inc. v. Carson · 362 U.S. 207 (1960)
• National Geographic Society v. California Board of Equalization · 430 U.S. 551 (1977)

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