Thorpe v. Housing Authority of the City of Durham

Decided January 13, 1969. Earl Warren delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 20 · 393 U.S. 268 (1969) · Cited 1,076 times

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How the Justices voted

Decided 9–0.

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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.

• Home Building & Loan Assn. v. Blaisdell · 290 U.S. 398 (1934)
• Lynch v. United States · 292 U.S. 571 (1934)
• Udall v. Tallman · 380 U.S. 1 (1965)
• Zemel v. Rusk · 381 U.S. 1 (1965)
• Alabama State Federation of Labor v. McAdory · 325 U.S. 450 (1945)
• City of El Paso v. Simmons · 379 U.S. 497 (1965)
• Greene v. United States · 376 U.S. 149 (1964)
• United States v. Chambers · 291 U.S. 217 (1934)
• Greene v. McElroy · 360 U.S. 474 (1959)
• Permian Basin Area Rate Cases · 390 U.S. 747 (1968)
• American Trucking Assns., Inc. v. United States · 344 U.S. 298 (1953)
• Vandenbark v. Owens-Illinois Glass Co. · 311 U.S. 538 (1941)
• Federal Communications Commission v. Schreiber · 381 U.S. 279 (1965)
• United States v. Fruehauf · 365 U.S. 146 (1961)
• East New York Savings Bank v. Hahn · 326 U.S. 230 (1945)
• Ziffrin, Inc. v. United States · 318 U.S. 73 (1943)
• Carpenter v. Wabash Railway Co. · 309 U.S. 23 (1940)
• Township of Pine Grove v. Talcott · 86 U.S. 666 (1874)

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• Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. v. Bonjorno · 494 U.S. 827 (1990)
• Landgraf v. USI Film Products · 511 U.S. 244 (1994)
• Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · 401 U.S. 402 (1971)
• Kisor v. Wilkie · 588 U.S. 558 (2019)
• Bradley v. School Bd. of Richmond · 416 U.S. 696 (1974)
• Henderson v. United States · 568 U.S. 266 (2013)
• Alexander v. Sandoval · 532 U.S. 275 (2001)
• Memorial Hospital v. Maricopa County · 415 U.S. 250 (1974)
• California Bankers Assn. v. Shultz · 416 U.S. 21 (1974)
• United States v. Mead Corp. · 533 U.S. 218 (2001)
• Nixon v. Administrator of General Services · 433 U.S. 425 (1977)
• National Treasury Employees Union v. Von Raab · 489 U.S. 656 (1989)
• Mourning v. Family Publications Service, Inc. · 411 U.S. 356 (1973)
• MacKey v. United States · 401 U.S. 667 (1971)
• Saint Francis College v. Al-Khazraji · 481 U.S. 604 (1987)
• Goodman v. Lukens Steel Co. · 482 U.S. 656 (1987)
• Hall v. Beals · 396 U.S. 45 (1969)
• Gulf Offshore Co. v. Mobil Oil Corp. · 453 U.S. 473 (1981)
• Guardians Assn. v. Civil Serv. Comm'n of New York City · 463 U.S. 582 (1983)
• Industrial Union Dept., AFL-CIO v. American Petroleum Institute · 448 U.S. 607 (1980)
• Ehlert v. United States · 402 U.S. 99 (1971)
• American Trucking Assns., Inc. v. Smith · 496 U.S. 167 (1990)
• Lau v. Nichols · 414 U.S. 563 (1974)
• Blum v. Bacon · 457 U.S. 132 (1982)
• Diffenderfer v. Central Baptist Church of Miami, Florida, Inc. · 404 U.S. 412 (1972)
• California Medical Ass'n v. Federal Election Commission · 453 U.S. 182 (1981)
• Anderson Bros. Ford v. Valencia · 452 U.S. 205 (1981)

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