Schlesinger, Secretary of Defense, et al. v. Reservists Committee to Stop the War et al.

Decided June 25, 1974. Warren Earl Burger delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 72-1188 · 418 U.S. 208 (1974) · Cited 1,370 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.

• Flast v. Cohen · 392 U.S. 83 (1968)
• Baker v. Carr · 369 U.S. 186 (1962)
• Massachusetts v. Mellon · 262 U.S. 447 (1923)
• Sierra Club v. Morton · 405 U.S. 727 (1972)
• Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · 397 U.S. 150 (1970)
• United States v. Students Challenging Regulatory Agency Procedures (SCRAP) · 412 U.S. 669 (1973)
• Barlow v. Collins · 397 U.S. 159 (1970)
• O'Shea v. Littleton · 414 U.S. 488 (1974)
• Powell v. McCormack · 395 U.S. 486 (1969)
• Liverpool, New York & Philadelphia Steamship Co. v. Commissioners of Emigration · 113 U.S. 33 (1885)
• United States v. Hartwell · 73 U.S. 385 (1868)
• Fairchild v. Hughes · 258 U.S. 126 (1922)
• Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · 387 U.S. 136 (1967)
• Linda R. S. v. Richard D. · 410 U.S. 614 (1973)
• Laird v. Tatum · 408 U.S. 1 (1972)
• Samuel Bailey v. Joe T. Patterson · 369 U.S. 31 (1962)
• Doremus v. Board of Ed. of Hawthorne · 342 U.S. 429 (1952)
• McCabe v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. · 235 U.S. 151 (1914)
• Tyler v. Judges of the Court of Registration · 179 U.S. 405 (1900)
• Giles v. Harris · 189 U.S. 475 (1903)

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• Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins · 578 U.S. 330 (2016)
• Clapper v. Amnesty International USA · 568 U.S. 398 (2013)
• Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · 504 U.S. 555 (1992)
• Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services (TOC), Inc. · 528 U.S. 167 (2000)
• Allen v. Wright · 468 U.S. 737 (1984)
• Summers v. Earth Island Institute · 555 U.S. 488 (2009)
• Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency · 549 U.S. 497 (2007)
• Federal Election Commission v. Akins · 524 U.S. 11 (1998)
• United States v. Windsor · 570 U.S. 744 (2013)
• Thole v. U. S. Bank N. A. · 590 U.S. 538 (2020)
• Warth v. Seldin · 422 U.S. 490 (1975)
• Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · 523 U.S. 83 (1998)
• Whitmore Ex Rel. Simmons v. Arkansas · 495 U.S. 149 (1990)
• United States Parole Commission v. Geraghty · 445 U.S. 388 (1980)
• Raines v. Byrd · 521 U.S. 811 (1997)
• FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine · 602 U.S. 367 (2024)
• American Legion v. American Humanist Assn. · 588 U.S. 29 (2019)
• Lewis v. Casey · 518 U.S. 343 (1996)
• City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · 461 U.S. 95 (1983)
• Amchem Products, Inc. v. Windsor · 521 U.S. 591 (1997)
• Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes · 564 U.S. 338 (2011)
• Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · 429 U.S. 252 (1977)
• General Telephone Co. of Southwest v. Falcon · 457 U.S. 147 (1982)
• Singleton v. Wulff · 428 U.S. 106 (1976)
• TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez · 594 U.S. 413 (2021)
• Cannon v. University of Chicago · 441 U.S. 677 (1979)
• DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Cuno · 547 U.S. 332 (2006)
• Duke Power Co. v. Carolina Environmental Study Group, Inc. · 438 U.S. 59 (1978)

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