Shelley et Ux. v. Kraemer et Ux.

Decided May 3, 1948. Frederick Moore Vinson delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 72 · 334 U.S. 1 (1948) · Cited 1,913 times

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How the Justices voted

Decided 6–0.

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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.

• Buchanan v. Warley · 245 U.S. 60 (1916)
• Hansberry v. Lee · 311 U.S. 32 (1940)
• Strauder v. West Virginia · 100 U.S. 303 (1880)
• Bridges v. California · 314 U.S. 252 (1941)
• Oyama v. California · 332 U.S. 633 (1948)
• Corrigan v. Buckley · 271 U.S. 323 (1926)
• Cantwell v. Connecticut · 310 U.S. 296 (1940)
• Mooney v. Holohan · 294 U.S. 103 (1935)
• Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Chicago · 166 U.S. 226 (1897)
• Civil Rights Cases · 109 U.S. 3 (1883)
• American Federation of Labor v. Swing · 312 U.S. 321 (1941)
• Home Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. City of Los Angeles · 227 U.S. 278 (1913)
• Brinkerhoff-Faris Trust & Savings Co. v. Hill · 281 U.S. 673 (1930)
• Erie Railroad v. Tompkins · 304 U.S. 64 (1938)
• Powell v. Alabama · 287 U.S. 45 (1932)
• Yick Wo v. Hopkins · 118 U.S. 356 (1886)
• United States v. Cruikshank · 92 U.S. 542 (1876)
• Truax v. Raich · 239 U.S. 33 (1915)
• Brown v. Mississippi · 297 U.S. 278 (1936)
• Ex Parte Virginia · 100 U.S. 339 (1880)
• Chambers v. Florida · 309 U.S. 227 (1940)
• Twining v. New Jersey · 211 U.S. 78 (1908)
• Craig v. Harney · 331 U.S. 367 (1947)
• Ashcraft v. Tennessee · 322 U.S. 143 (1944)
• Pyle v. Kansas · 317 U.S. 213 (1942)
• Virginia v. Rives · 100 U.S. 313 (1880)
• Pennekamp v. Florida · 328 U.S. 331 (1946)
• Moore v. Dempsey · 261 U.S. 86 (1923)
• Hovey v. Elliott · 167 U.S. 409 (1897)
• Neal v. Delaware · 103 U.S. 370 (1881)

Cited by

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• Bell v. Maryland · 378 U.S. 226 (1964)
• Barrows v. Jackson · 346 U.S. 249 (1953)
• Lombard v. Louisiana · 373 U.S. 267 (1963)
• Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · 398 U.S. 144 (1970)
• Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Co. · 500 U.S. 614 (1991)
• Regents of the University of California v. Bakke · 438 U.S. 265 (1978)
• Moose Lodge No. 107 v. Irvis · 407 U.S. 163 (1972)
• Bray v. Alexandria Women's Health Clinic · 506 U.S. 263 (1993)
• Reitman v. Mulkey · 387 U.S. 369 (1967)
• Evans v. Abney · 396 U.S. 435 (1970)
• Whole Woman's Health v. Jackson · 595 U.S. 30 (2021)
• Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co. · 419 U.S. 345 (1974)
• Blum v. Yaretsky · 457 U.S. 991 (1982)
• Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. · 392 U.S. 409 (1968)
• City of Richmond v. J. A. Croson Co. · 488 U.S. 469 (1989)
• Great American Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Novotny · 442 U.S. 366 (1979)
• Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States · 379 U.S. 241 (1964)
• District of Columbia v. Carter · 409 U.S. 418 (1973)
• Terry v. Adams · 345 U.S. 461 (1953)
• Sherrer v. Sherrer · 334 U.S. 343 (1948)
• Lebron v. National Railroad Passenger Corporation · 513 U.S. 374 (1995)
• Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College · 600 U.S. 181 (2023)
• Black v. Cutter Laboratories · 351 U.S. 292 (1956)
• City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center, Inc. · 473 U.S. 432 (1985)
• Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co. · 457 U.S. 922 (1982)
• DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services · 489 U.S. 189 (1989)
• Singleton v. Wulff · 428 U.S. 106 (1976)
• City of Oklahoma v. Tuttle · 471 U.S. 808 (1985)
• American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. Sullivan · 526 U.S. 40 (1999)
• Flagg Bros., Inc. v. Brooks · 436 U.S. 149 (1978)

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