Richard Pennell and Tri-County Apartment House Owners Association v. City of San Jose and City Council of San Jose

Decided February 24, 1988. William Hubbs Rehnquist delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 86-753 · 485 U.S. 1 (1988) · Cited 609 times

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How the Justices voted

Decided 6–2.

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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.

• Hodel v. Virginia Surface Mining & Reclamation Assn., Inc. · 452 U.S. 264 (1981)
• Agins v. City of Tiburon · 447 U.S. 255 (1980)
• Hunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising Commission · 432 U.S. 333 (1977)
• Loretto v. Teleprompter Manhattan CATV Corp. · 458 U.S. 419 (1982)
• Armstrong v. United States · 364 U.S. 40 (1960)
• Permian Basin Area Rate Cases · 390 U.S. 747 (1968)
• Bowles v. Willingham · 321 U.S. 503 (1944)
• Federal Communications Commission v. Florida Power Corp. · 480 U.S. 245 (1987)
• Nebbia v. New York · 291 U.S. 502 (1934)
• Vance v. Bradley · 440 U.S. 93 (1979)
• Kaiser Aetna v. United States · 444 U.S. 164 (1979)
• Warth v. Seldin · 422 U.S. 490 (1975)
• Allen v. Wright · 468 U.S. 737 (1984)
• Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · 454 U.S. 464 (1982)
• Simon v. Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization · 426 U.S. 26 (1976)
• Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · 438 U.S. 104 (1978)
• Babbitt v. United Farm Workers National Union · 442 U.S. 289 (1979)
• City of New Orleans v. Dukes · 427 U.S. 297 (1976)
• Gladstone, Realtors v. Village of Bellwood · 441 U.S. 91 (1979)
• Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co. · 320 U.S. 591 (1944)
• First English Evangelical Lutheran Church v. County of Los Angeles · 482 U.S. 304 (1987)
• Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Chicago · 166 U.S. 226 (1897)
• Keystone Bituminous Coal Assn. v. DeBenedictis · 480 U.S. 470 (1987)
• Webb's Fabulous Pharmacies, Inc. v. Beckwith · 449 U.S. 155 (1980)
• Monongahela Navigation Co. v. United States · 148 U.S. 312 (1893)
• International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, & Agricultural Implement Workers v. Brock · 477 U.S. 274 (1986)
• Federal Power Commission v. Texaco Inc. · 417 U.S. 380 (1974)
• Hodel v. Indiana · 452 U.S. 314 (1981)
• Woods v. Cloyd W. Miller Co. · 333 U.S. 138 (1948)

Cited by

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• Clapper v. Amnesty International USA · 568 U.S. 398 (2013)
• Yee v. City of Escondido · 503 U.S. 519 (1992)
• Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council · 505 U.S. 1003 (1992)
• Gregory v. Ashcroft · 501 U.S. 452 (1991)
• Northeastern Florida Chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America v. City of Jacksonville · 508 U.S. 656 (1993)
• Dolan v. City of Tigard · 512 U.S. 374 (1994)
• New York State Club Assn., Inc. v. City of New York · 487 U.S. 1 (1988)
• Asarco Inc. v. Kadish · 490 U.S. 605 (1989)
• United Food & Commercial Workers Union Local 751 v. Brown Group, Inc. · 517 U.S. 544 (1996)

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