Reeves, Inc. v. Stake et al.

Decided June 19, 1980. Harry Andrew Blackmun delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 79-677 · 447 U.S. 429 (1980) · Cited 360 times

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How the Justices voted

Decided 5–4.

“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.

• Hughes v. Alexandria Scrap Corp. · 426 U.S. 794 (1976)
• Hughes v. Oklahoma · 441 U.S. 322 (1979)
• Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc. · 397 U.S. 137 (1970)
• National League of Cities v. Usery · 426 U.S. 833 (1976)
• Pennsylvania v. West Virginia · 262 U.S. 553 (1923)
• City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey · 437 U.S. 617 (1978)
• H. P. Hood & Sons, Inc. v. Du Mond · 336 U.S. 525 (1949)
• Foster-Fountain Packing Co. v. Haydel · 278 U.S. 1 (1928)
• New York v. United States · 326 U.S. 572 (1946)
• Gibbons v. Ogden · 22 U.S. 1 (1824)
• United States v. Colgate & Co. · 250 U.S. 300 (1919)
• Perkins v. Lukens Steel Co. · 310 U.S. 113 (1940)
• United States v. California · 297 U.S. 175 (1936)
• Weinstein v. Bradford · 423 U.S. 147 (1975)
• City of Lafayette v. Louisiana Power & Light Co. · 435 U.S. 389 (1978)
• Toomer v. Witsell · 334 U.S. 385 (1948)
• New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann · 285 U.S. 262 (1932)
• Baldwin v. Fish and Game Comm'n of Mont. · 436 U.S. 371 (1978)
• Japan Line, Ltd. v. County of Los Angeles · 441 U.S. 434 (1979)
• Helvering v. Gerhardt · 304 U.S. 405 (1938)
• Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Cottrell · 424 U.S. 366 (1976)
• Ohio v. Helvering · 292 U.S. 360 (1934)
• West v. Kansas Natural Gas Co. · 221 U.S. 229 (1911)

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• Department of Revenue of Kentucky v. Davis · 553 U.S. 328 (2008)
• White v. Massachusetts Council of Construction Employers, Inc. · 460 U.S. 204 (1983)
• Camps Newfound/Owatonna, Inc. v. Town of Harrison · 520 U.S. 564 (1997)
• South-Central Timber Development, Inc. v. Wunnicke · 467 U.S. 82 (1984)
• Comptroller of Treasury of Md. v. Wynne · 575 U.S. 542 (2015)
• McBurney v. Young · 569 U.S. 221 (2013)
• United Haulers Ass'n v. Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Management Authority · 550 U.S. 330 (2007)
• College Savings Bank v. Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board · 527 U.S. 666 (1999)
• General Motors Corp. v. Tracy · 519 U.S. 278 (1997)
• Wisconsin Department of Industry, Labor & Human Relations v. Gould Inc. · 475 U.S. 282 (1986)
• United Building & Constr. Trades Council of Camden Cty. v. Mayor and Council of Camden · 465 U.S. 208 (1984)
• Globe Newspaper Co. v. Superior Court, County of Norfolk · 457 U.S. 596 (1982)
• New Energy Co. of Indiana v. Limbach · 486 U.S. 269 (1988)
• Iron Arrow Honor Society v. Heckler · 464 U.S. 67 (1983)
• Federal Energy Regulatory Commission v. Mississippi · 456 U.S. 742 (1982)
• Wyoming v. Oklahoma · 502 U.S. 437 (1992)
• West Lynn Creamery, Inc. v. Healy · 512 U.S. 186 (1994)
• Chemical Waste Management, Inc. v. Hunt · 504 U.S. 334 (1992)
• New England Power Co. v. New Hampshire · 455 U.S. 331 (1982)
• Fort Gratiot Sanitary Landfill, Inc. v. Michigan Department of Natural Resources · 504 U.S. 353 (1992)
• Sporhase v. Nebraska Ex Rel. Douglas · 458 U.S. 941 (1982)
• National Pork Producers Council v. Ross · 598 U.S. 356 (2023)

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