Vanston Bondholders Protective Committee v. Green et al.

Decided December 9, 1946. Hugo Lafayette Black delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 42 · 329 U.S. 156 (1946) · Cited 728 times

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Decided 8–0.

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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.

• Sexton v. Dreyfus · 219 U.S. 339 (1911)
• Holmberg v. Armbrecht · 327 U.S. 392 (1946)
• Board of Comm'rs of Jackson Cty. v. United States · 308 U.S. 343 (1939)
• Security Mortgage Co. v. Powers · 278 U.S. 149 (1928)
• Ticonic National Bank v. Sprague · 303 U.S. 406 (1938)
• Erie Railroad v. Tompkins · 304 U.S. 64 (1938)
• Pepper v. Litton · 308 U.S. 295 (1939)
• Heiser v. Woodruff · 327 U.S. 726 (1946)
• Consolidated Rock Products Co. v. Du Bois · 312 U.S. 510 (1941)
• Scudder v. Union National Bank · 91 U.S. 406 (1875)
• Group of Institutional Investors v. Chicago, M., St. P. & P.R. Co., and 9 Other Cases · 318 U.S. 523 (1943)
• Coder v. Arts · 213 U.S. 223 (1909)
• Royal Indemnity Co. v. United States · 313 U.S. 289 (1941)
• Young v. Higbee Co. · 324 U.S. 204 (1945)
• Benedict v. Ratner · 268 U.S. 353 (1925)
• Kuehner v. Irving Trust Co. · 299 U.S. 445 (1937)
• American Iron & Steel Manufacturing Co. v. Seaboard Air Line Railway · 233 U.S. 261 (1914)
• Marshall v. New York · 254 U.S. 380 (1920)
• White v. Knox · 111 U.S. 784 (1884)
• John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance v. Yates · 299 U.S. 178 (1936)

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• Raleigh v. Illinois Department of Revenue · 530 U.S. 15 (2000)
• United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · 489 U.S. 235 (1989)
• United Sav. Assn. of Tex. v. Timbers of Inwood Forest Associates, Ltd. · 484 U.S. 365 (1988)
• Richards v. United States · 369 U.S. 1 (1962)
• Regional Rail Reorganization Act Cases · 419 U.S. 102 (1974)
• Central Virginia Community College v. Katz · 546 U.S. 356 (2006)
• Nicholas v. United States · 384 U.S. 678 (1966)
• Grogan v. Garner · 498 U.S. 279 (1991)
• BFP v. Resolution Trust Corporation · 511 U.S. 531 (1994)
• International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America v. Hoosier Cardinal Corp. · 383 U.S. 696 (1966)
• Travelers Casualty & Surety Co. of America v. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. · 549 U.S. 443 (2007)
• Gardner v. New Jersey · 329 U.S. 565 (1947)
• Bruning v. United States · 376 U.S. 358 (1964)
• Texas v. New Jersey · 379 U.S. 674 (1965)
• Railway Labor Executives' Assn. v. Gibbons · 455 U.S. 457 (1982)

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