United States v. Kahriger
Decided March 9, 1953. Stanley Forman Reed delivered the opinion of the Court.
Docket 167 · 345 U.S. 22 (1953) · Cited 287 times
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How the Justices voted
Decided 6–3.
Majority · 5
- Stanley Forman Reed · delivered the opinion of the Court
- Frederick Moore Vinson
- Harold Hitz Burton
- Sherman Minton
- Tom C. Clark
Concurring · 1
- Robert Houghwout Jackson · filed a concurring opinion
Dissenting · 3
- Felix Frankfurter · filed a dissenting opinion
- Hugo Lafayette Black · filed a dissenting opinion
- William Orville Douglas
“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.
- Child Labor Tax Case · 259 U.S. 20 (1922)
- Veazie Bank v. Fenno · 75 U.S. 533 (1869)
- License Tax Cases · 72 U.S. 462 (1867)
- United States v. Constantine · 296 U.S. 287 (1935)
- United States v. Darby · 312 U.S. 100 (1941)
- Shapiro v. United States · 335 U.S. 1 (1948)
- United States v. Sullivan · 274 U.S. 259 (1927)
- Hammer v. Dagenhart · 247 U.S. 251 (1918)
- Sonzinsky v. United States · 300 U.S. 506 (1937)
- Hill v. Wallace · 259 U.S. 44 (1922)
- Feldman v. United States · 322 U.S. 487 (1944)
- United States v. Doremus · 249 U.S. 86 (1919)
- Linder v. United States · 268 U.S. 5 (1925)
- Wickard v. Filburn · 317 U.S. 111 (1942)
- Brown v. Walker · 161 U.S. 591 (1896)
- United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. · 299 U.S. 304 (1936)
- United States v. Butler · 297 U.S. 1 (1936)
- Steward MacHine Co. v. Davis · 301 U.S. 548 (1937)
- Davis v. United States · 328 U.S. 582 (1946)
- United States v. Jin Fuey Moy · 241 U.S. 394 (1916)
- Board of Trade of Chicago v. Olsen · 262 U.S. 1 (1923)
- Mulford v. Smith · 307 U.S. 38 (1939)
- United States v. Sanchez · 340 U.S. 42 (1950)
- New York v. United States · 326 U.S. 572 (1946)
- Hipolite Egg Co. v. United States · 220 U.S. 45 (1911)
- United States v. Beacon Brass Co. · 344 U.S. 43 (1952)
Cited by
Later Supreme Court opinions in our collection that cite this case.
- Marchetti v. United States · 390 U.S. 39 (1968)
- Lewis v. United States · 348 U.S. 419 (1955)
- Grosso v. United States · 390 U.S. 62 (1968)
- MacKey v. United States · 401 U.S. 667 (1971)
- United States v. United States Coin & Currency · 401 U.S. 715 (1971)
- United States v. Knox · 396 U.S. 77 (1969)
- Communist Party of United States v. Subversive Activities Control Bd. · 367 U.S. 1 (1961)
- United States v. Apfelbaum · 445 U.S. 115 (1980)
- Irvine v. California · 347 U.S. 128 (1954)
- United States v. Calamaro · 354 U.S. 351 (1957)
- National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius · 567 U.S. 519 (2012)
- Lambert v. California · 355 U.S. 225 (1957)
- California v. Byers · 402 U.S. 424 (1971)
- Ingram v. United States · 360 U.S. 672 (1959)
- Bates v. City of Little Rock · 361 U.S. 516 (1960)
- Garner v. United States · 424 U.S. 648 (1976)
- Minor v. United States · 396 U.S. 87 (1969)
- California v. Texas · 593 U.S. 659 (2021)
- Knapp v. Schweitzer · 357 U.S. 371 (1958)
- United States v. Five Gambling Devices · 346 U.S. 441 (1953)
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