Taylor v. Sturgell

Decided June 12, 2008. Ruth Bader Ginsburg delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 07-371 · 553 U.S. 880 (2008) · Cited 2,529 times

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How the Justices voted

Decided 9–0.

“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.

• Richards v. Jefferson County · 517 U.S. 793 (1996)
• Montana v. United States · 440 U.S. 147 (1979)
• Hansberry v. Lee · 311 U.S. 32 (1940)
• Martin v. Wilks · 490 U.S. 755 (1989)
• Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Schendel · 270 U.S. 611 (1926)
• Coryell v. Phipps · 317 U.S. 406 (1943)
• Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation · 402 U.S. 313 (1971)
• Semtek International Inc. v. Lockheed Martin Corp. · 531 U.S. 497 (2001)
• New Hampshire v. Maine · 532 U.S. 742 (2001)
• Jones v. Bock · 549 U.S. 199 (2007)
• Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · 339 U.S. 306 (1950)
• Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · 417 U.S. 156 (1974)
• Migra v. Warren City School District Board of Education · 465 U.S. 75 (1984)
• Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · 395 U.S. 100 (1969)
• National Archives & Records Administration v. Favish · 541 U.S. 157 (2004)
• Sea-Land Services, Inc. v. Gaudet · 414 U.S. 573 (1974)
• Schnell v. Peter Eckrich & Sons, Inc. · 365 U.S. 260 (1961)

Cited by

Later Supreme Court opinions in our collection that cite this case.

• Smith v. Bayer Corp. · 564 U.S. 299 (2011)
• Cooper v. Harris · 581 U.S. 285 (2017)
• United States v. Sanchez-Gomez · 584 U.S. 381 (2018)
• Lucky Brand Dungarees, Inc. v. Marcel Fashions Group, Inc. · 590 U.S. 405 (2020)
• Herrera v. Wyoming · 587 U.S. 329 (2019)
• FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine · 602 U.S. 367 (2024)
• Cunningham v. Cornell Univ. · 604 U.S. 693 (2025)
• Cameron v. EMW Women's Surgical Center, P. S. C. · 595 U.S. 267 (2022)
• United States ex rel. Eisenstein v. City of New York · 556 U.S. 928 (2009)
• Bobby v. Bies · 556 U.S. 825 (2009)
• Haaland v. Brackeen · 599 U.S. 255 (2023)
• Trump v. CASA, Inc. · 606 U.S. 831 (2025)
• Moore v. Harper · 600 U.S. 1 (2023)

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