Powell et al. v. McCormack, Speaker of the House of Representatives, et al.

Decided June 16, 1969. Earl Warren delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 138 · 395 U.S. 486 (1969) · Cited 3,053 times

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How the Justices voted

Decided 7–1.

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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.

• Bond v. Floyd · 385 U.S. 116 (1966)
• Baker v. Carr · 369 U.S. 186 (1962)
• Dombrowski v. Eastland · 387 U.S. 82 (1967)
• Barry v. United States Ex Rel. Cunningham · 279 U.S. 597 (1929)
• Tenney v. Brandhove · 341 U.S. 367 (1951)
• United States v. W. T. Grant Co. · 345 U.S. 629 (1953)
• United Public Workers of America v. Mitchell · 330 U.S. 75 (1947)
• Golden v. Zwickler · 394 U.S. 103 (1969)
• United States v. Johnson · 383 U.S. 169 (1966)
• Bell v. Hood · 327 U.S. 678 (1946)
• Myers v. United States · 272 U.S. 52 (1926)
• United States v. Concentrated Phosphate Export Assn., Inc. · 393 U.S. 199 (1968)
• United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Assn. · 166 U.S. 290 (1897)
• Sibron v. New York · 392 U.S. 40 (1968)
• Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · 297 U.S. 288 (1936)
• Gully v. First Nat. Bank in Meridian · 299 U.S. 109 (1936)
• Osborn v. Bank of United States · 22 U.S. 738 (1824)
• Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer · 343 U.S. 579 (1952)
• Zwickler v. Koota · 389 U.S. 241 (1967)
• Hecht Co. v. Bowles · 321 U.S. 321 (1944)
• The Fair v. Kohler Die & Specialty Co. · 228 U.S. 22 (1913)
• Coleman v. Miller · 307 U.S. 433 (1939)
• Carroll v. President & Commissioners of Princess Anne · 393 U.S. 175 (1968)
• United States v. Brown · 381 U.S. 437 (1965)
• Bank of Marin v. England · 385 U.S. 99 (1966)
• Oetjen v. Central Leather Co. · 246 U.S. 297 (1918)
• McGrain v. Daugherty · 273 U.S. 135 (1927)
• United States v. California · 332 U.S. 19 (1947)
• Eccles v. Peoples Bank of Lakewood Village · 333 U.S. 426 (1948)
• Public Affairs Associates, Inc. v. Rickover · 369 U.S. 111 (1962)

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• Doe v. McMillan · 412 U.S. 306 (1973)
• Nixon v. United States · 506 U.S. 224 (1993)
• Houston Community College System v. Wilson · 595 U.S. 468 (2022)
• United States Parole Commission v. Geraghty · 445 U.S. 388 (1980)
• Eastland v. United States Servicemen's Fund · 421 U.S. 491 (1975)
• Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Comm'n · 576 U.S. 787 (2015)
• Roudebush v. Hartke · 405 U.S. 15 (1972)
• Gravel v. United States · 408 U.S. 606 (1972)
• United States v. Munoz-Flores · 495 U.S. 385 (1990)
• United States v. Nixon · 418 U.S. 683 (1974)
• Raines v. Byrd · 521 U.S. 811 (1997)
• Nixon v. Administrator of General Services · 433 U.S. 425 (1977)
• Chafin v. Chafin · 568 U.S. 165 (2013)
• Franklin v. Massachusetts · 505 U.S. 788 (1992)
• United States v. Brewster · 408 U.S. 501 (1972)
• New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. City of New York · 590 U.S. 336 (2020)
• Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services (TOC), Inc. · 528 U.S. 167 (2000)
• Murphy v. Hunt · 455 U.S. 478 (1982)
• Schlesinger v. Reservists Committee to Stop the War · 418 U.S. 208 (1974)
• Oregon v. Mitchell · 400 U.S. 112 (1970)
• Rostker v. Goldberg · 453 U.S. 57 (1981)
• Firefighters Local Union No. 1784 v. Stotts · 467 U.S. 561 (1984)
• United States v. Rahimi · 602 U.S. 680 (2024)
• Spallone v. United States · 493 U.S. 265 (1990)
• Buckley v. Valeo · 424 U.S. 1 (1976)
• Elrod v. Burns · 427 U.S. 347 (1976)
• Davis v. Passman · 442 U.S. 228 (1979)
• Gunn v. Minton · 568 U.S. 251 (2013)
• Clinton v. Jones · 520 U.S. 681 (1997)

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