Prima Paint Corp. v. Flood & Conklin Mfg. Co.

Decided June 12, 1967. Abe Fortas delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 343 · 388 U.S. 395 (1967) · Cited 2,844 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.

• Bernhardt v. Polygraphic Co. of America, Inc. · 350 U.S. 198 (1956)
• Erie Railroad v. Tompkins · 304 U.S. 64 (1938)
• Tumey v. Ohio · 273 U.S. 510 (1927)
• Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · 326 U.S. 99 (1945)
• Shanferoke Coal & Supply Corp. v. Westchester Service Corp. · 293 U.S. 449 (1935)
• United States v. Bethlehem Steel Corp. · 315 U.S. 289 (1942)
• Moseley v. Electronic & Missile Facilities, Inc. · 374 U.S. 167 (1963)

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• Southland Corp. v. Keating · 465 U.S. 1 (1984)
• Buckeye Check Cashing, Inc. v. Cardegna · 546 U.S. 440 (2006)
• Mitsubishi Motors Corp. v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc. · 473 U.S. 614 (1985)
• Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. · 460 U.S. 1 (1983)
• Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis · 584 U.S. 497 (2018)
• Allied-Bruce Terminix Cos., Inc. v. Dobson · 513 U.S. 265 (1995)
• Perry v. Thomas · 482 U.S. 483 (1987)
• Preston v. Ferrer · 552 U.S. 346 (2008)
• New Prime Inc. v. Oliveira · 586 U.S. 105 (2019)
• Lamps Plus, Inc. v. Varela · 587 U.S. 176 (2019)
• Volt Info. Sciences, Inc. v. Bd. of Trustees of Leland Stanford Jr. U. · 489 U.S. 468 (1989)
• Circuit City Stores, Inc. v. Adams · 532 U.S. 105 (2001)
• Stewart Organization, Inc. v. Ricoh Corp. · 487 U.S. 22 (1988)
• Scherk v. Alberto-Culver Co. · 417 U.S. 506 (1974)
• Budinich v. Becton Dickinson & Co. · 486 U.S. 196 (1988)
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Waffle House, Inc. · 534 U.S. 279 (2002)
• Morgan v. Sundance, Inc. · 596 U.S. 411 (2022)
• Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. v. Ware · 414 U.S. 117 (1973)
• Nitro-Lift Technologies, L. L. C. v. Howard · 568 U.S. 17 (2012)
• Coinbase v. Suski · 602 U.S. 143 (2024)

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