Williamson County Regional Planning Commission et al. v. Hamilton Bank of Johnson City

Decided June 28, 1985. Harry Andrew Blackmun delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 84-4 · 473 U.S. 172 (1985) · Cited 2,607 times

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How the Justices voted

Decided 7–1.

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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.

• Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon · 260 U.S. 393 (1922)
• Ruckelshaus v. Monsanto Co. · 467 U.S. 986 (1984)
• San Diego Gas & Electric Co. v. City of San Diego · 450 U.S. 621 (1981)
• Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · 438 U.S. 104 (1978)
• Agins v. City of Tiburon · 447 U.S. 255 (1980)
• Hodel v. Virginia Surface Mining & Reclamation Assn., Inc. · 452 U.S. 264 (1981)
• Patsy v. Board of Regents of Fla. · 457 U.S. 496 (1982)
• Parratt v. Taylor · 451 U.S. 527 (1981)
• Andrus v. Allard · 444 U.S. 51 (1979)
• PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins · 447 U.S. 74 (1980)
• Kaiser Aetna v. United States · 444 U.S. 164 (1979)
• United States v. General Motors Corp. · 323 U.S. 373 (1945)
• Hudson v. Palmer · 468 U.S. 517 (1984)
• Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · 470 U.S. 532 (1985)
• Carey v. Piphus · 435 U.S. 247 (1978)
• Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co. · 455 U.S. 422 (1982)
• Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division v. Craft · 436 U.S. 1 (1978)
• Regional Rail Reorganization Act Cases · 419 U.S. 102 (1974)
• Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Chicago · 166 U.S. 226 (1897)
• Goldblatt v. Town of Hempstead · 369 U.S. 590 (1962)
• Federal Trade Commission v. Standard Oil Co. · 449 U.S. 232 (1980)
• Kimball Laundry Co. v. United States · 338 U.S. 1 (1949)
• Yearsley v. W. A. Ross Construction Co. · 309 U.S. 18 (1940)
• Industrial Union Dept., AFL-CIO v. American Petroleum Institute · 448 U.S. 607 (1980)
• Raymond Motor Transportation, Inc. v. Rice · 434 U.S. 429 (1978)
• Cherokee Nation v. Southern Kansas Railway Co. · 135 U.S. 641 (1890)
• United States v. Central Eureka Mining Co. · 357 U.S. 155 (1958)
• United States v. 50 Acres of Land · 469 U.S. 24 (1984)
• Hurley v. Kincaid · 285 U.S. 95 (1932)

Cited by

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• San Remo Hotel, L. P. v. City & County of San Francisco · 545 U.S. 323 (2005)
• Knick v. Township of Scott · 588 U.S. 180 (2019)
• MacDonald, Sommer & Frates v. Yolo County · 477 U.S. 340 (1986)
• Suitum v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency · 520 U.S. 725 (1997)
• First English Evangelical Lutheran Church v. County of Los Angeles · 482 U.S. 304 (1987)
• Horne v. Department of Agriculture · 569 U.S. 513 (2013)
• City of Monterey v. Del Monte Dunes at Monterey, Ltd. · 526 U.S. 687 (1999)
• Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council · 505 U.S. 1003 (1992)
• Palazzolo v. Rhode Island · 533 U.S. 606 (2001)
• Horne v. Department of Agriculture · 576 U.S. 351 (2015)
• United States v. Riverside Bayview Homes, Inc. · 474 U.S. 121 (1985)
• Pakdel v. City and County of San Francisco · 594 U.S. 474 (2021)
• Lingle v. Chevron U. S. A. Inc. · 544 U.S. 528 (2005)
• Yee v. City of Escondido · 503 U.S. 519 (1992)
• Preseault v. Interstate Commerce Commission · 494 U.S. 1 (1990)
• Darby v. Cisneros · 509 U.S. 137 (1993)
• Phillips v. Washington Legal Foundation · 524 U.S. 156 (1998)
• Brown v. Legal Foundation of Washington · 538 U.S. 216 (2003)

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