Time, Inc. v. Hill

Decided January 9, 1967. William Joseph Brennan Jr. delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 22 · 385 U.S. 374 (1967) · Cited 933 times

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How the Justices voted

Decided 5–4.

“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.

• New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · 376 U.S. 254 (1964)
• Rosenblatt v. Baer · 383 U.S. 75 (1966)
• Mapp v. Ohio · 367 U.S. 643 (1961)
• Griswold v. Connecticut · 381 U.S. 479 (1965)
• Garrison v. Louisiana · 379 U.S. 64 (1964)
• Winters v. New York · 333 U.S. 507 (1948)
• National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Button · 371 U.S. 415 (1963)
• Speiser v. Randall · 357 U.S. 513 (1958)
• Wolf v. Colorado · 338 U.S. 25 (1949)
• Smith v. California · 361 U.S. 147 (1959)
• Breard v. Alexandria · 341 U.S. 622 (1951)
• Valentine v. Chrestensen · 316 U.S. 52 (1942)
• Gideon v. Wainwright · 372 U.S. 335 (1963)
• Boyd v. United States · 116 U.S. 616 (1886)
• Cantwell v. Connecticut · 310 U.S. 296 (1940)
• Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire · 315 U.S. 568 (1942)
• Thornhill v. Alabama · 310 U.S. 88 (1940)
• Olmstead v. United States · 277 U.S. 438 (1928)
• Dombrowski v. Pfister · 380 U.S. 479 (1965)
• Screws v. United States · 325 U.S. 91 (1945)
• Bram v. United States · 168 U.S. 532 (1897)
• Lovell v. City of Griffin · 303 U.S. 444 (1938)
• Poe v. Ullman · 367 U.S. 497 (1961)
• Baggett v. Bullitt · 377 U.S. 360 (1964)
• United States v. Raines · 362 U.S. 17 (1960)
• Betts v. Brady · 316 U.S. 455 (1942)
• Kovacs v. Cooper · 336 U.S. 77 (1949)
• Grosjean v. American Press Co. · 297 U.S. 233 (1936)
• Bridges v. California · 314 U.S. 252 (1941)
• Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson · 343 U.S. 495 (1952)

Cited by

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

• Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts · 388 U.S. 130 (1967)
• Rosenbloom v. Metromedia, Inc. · 403 U.S. 29 (1971)
• Cantrell v. Forest City Publishing Co. · 419 U.S. 245 (1974)
• Zacchini v. Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Co. · 433 U.S. 562 (1977)
• Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. Cohn · 420 U.S. 469 (1975)
• Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · 418 U.S. 323 (1974)
• Herbert v. Lando · 441 U.S. 153 (1979)
• Connick Ex Rel. Parish of Orleans v. Myers · 461 U.S. 138 (1983)
• Arnett v. Kennedy · 416 U.S. 134 (1974)
• Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission · 558 U.S. 310 (2010)
• Florida Star v. B. J. F. · 491 U.S. 524 (1989)
• Pickering v. Board of Ed. of Township High School Dist. 205, Will Cty. · 391 U.S. 563 (1968)
• First Nat. Bank of Boston v. Bellotti · 435 U.S. 765 (1978)
• Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. v. Greenmoss Builders, Inc. · 472 U.S. 749 (1985)
• Greenbelt Cooperative Publishing Assn., Inc. v. Bresler · 398 U.S. 6 (1970)
• United States v. Alvarez · 567 U.S. 709 (2012)
• Bartnicki v. Vopper · 532 U.S. 514 (2001)
• United States v. Booker · 543 U.S. 220 (2005)
• Katz v. United States · 389 U.S. 347 (1967)
• Spinelli v. United States · 393 U.S. 410 (1969)
• Pell v. Procunier · 417 U.S. 817 (1974)
• Branzburg v. Hayes · 408 U.S. 665 (1972)
• Babbitt v. United Farm Workers National Union · 442 U.S. 289 (1979)
• Erznoznik v. City of Jacksonville · 422 U.S. 205 (1975)
• Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell · 485 U.S. 46 (1988)
• Bolger v. Youngs Drug Products Corp. · 463 U.S. 60 (1983)
• Snyder v. Phelps · 562 U.S. 443 (2011)
• Brockett v. Spokane Arcades, Inc. · 472 U.S. 491 (1985)
• Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. v. Democratic National Committee · 412 U.S. 94 (1973)
• Houchins v. KQED, Inc. · 438 U.S. 1 (1978)

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