Selective Service System et al. v. Minnesota Public Interest Research Group et al.

Decided July 5, 1984. Warren Earl Burger delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 83-276 · 468 U.S. 841 (1984) · Cited 370 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.

• Lefkowitz v. Turley · 414 U.S. 70 (1973)
• Flemming v. Nestor · 363 U.S. 603 (1960)
• Nixon v. Administrator of General Services · 433 U.S. 425 (1977)
• Ex Parte Garland · 71 U.S. 333 (1867)
• United States v. Lovett · 328 U.S. 303 (1946)
• Minnesota v. Murphy · 465 U.S. 420 (1984)
• Marchetti v. United States · 390 U.S. 39 (1968)
• Rostker v. Goldberg · 453 U.S. 57 (1981)
• Goldberg v. Kelly · 397 U.S. 254 (1970)
• Garrity v. New Jersey · 385 U.S. 493 (1967)
• Grosso v. United States · 390 U.S. 62 (1968)
• San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · 411 U.S. 1 (1973)
• Plyler v. Doe · 457 U.S. 202 (1982)
• Counselman v. Hitchcock · 142 U.S. 547 (1892)
• United States v. Brown · 381 U.S. 437 (1965)
• Communist Party of United States v. Subversive Activities Control Bd. · 367 U.S. 1 (1961)
• Albertson v. Subversive Activities Control Board · 382 U.S. 70 (1965)
• Mathews v. Eldridge · 424 U.S. 319 (1976)
• Spevack v. Klein · 385 U.S. 511 (1967)
• Gardner v. Broderick · 392 U.S. 273 (1968)
• Railway Express Agency, Inc. v. New York · 336 U.S. 106 (1949)
• Boyd v. United States · 116 U.S. 616 (1886)
• Yick Wo v. Hopkins · 118 U.S. 356 (1886)
• Dandridge v. Williams · 397 U.S. 471 (1970)
• Malloy v. Hogan · 378 U.S. 1 (1964)
• United States v. O'Brien · 391 U.S. 367 (1968)
• Bolling v. Sharpe · 347 U.S. 497 (1954)
• Flagg Bros., Inc. v. Brooks · 436 U.S. 149 (1978)
• Personnel Administrator of Mass. v. Feeney · 442 U.S. 256 (1979)
• Skinner v. Oklahoma Ex Rel. Williamson · 316 U.S. 535 (1942)

Cited by

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• Kadrmas v. Dickinson Public Schools · 487 U.S. 450 (1988)
• Wayte v. United States · 470 U.S. 598 (1985)
• Plaut v. Spendthrift Farm, Inc. · 514 U.S. 211 (1995)

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