Winters v. New York

Decided March 29, 1948. Stanley Forman Reed delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 3 · 333 U.S. 507 (1948) · Cited 1,240 times

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How the Justices voted

Decided 6–3.

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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.

• Nash v. United States · 229 U.S. 373 (1913)
• Lanzetta v. New Jersey · 306 U.S. 451 (1939)
• Herndon v. Lowry · 301 U.S. 242 (1937)
• Cantwell v. Connecticut · 310 U.S. 296 (1940)
• Connally v. General Construction Co. · 269 U.S. 385 (1926)
• Stromberg v. California · 283 U.S. 359 (1931)
• Fox v. Washington · 236 U.S. 273 (1915)
• Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire · 315 U.S. 568 (1942)
• United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · 310 U.S. 150 (1940)
• Screws v. United States · 325 U.S. 91 (1945)
• Near v. Minnesota Ex Rel. Olson · 283 U.S. 697 (1931)
• Lovell v. City of Griffin · 303 U.S. 444 (1938)
• Lochner v. New York · 198 U.S. 45 (1905)
• Gitlow v. New York · 268 U.S. 652 (1925)
• West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish · 300 U.S. 379 (1937)
• United States v. Petrillo · 332 U.S. 1 (1947)
• United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Assn. · 322 U.S. 533 (1944)
• Associated Press v. United States · 326 U.S. 1 (1945)
• Interstate Circuit, Inc. v. United States · 306 U.S. 208 (1939)
• Abrams v. United States · 250 U.S. 616 (1919)
• Ex Parte Jackson · 96 U.S. 727 (1878)
• Pennekamp v. Florida · 328 U.S. 331 (1946)
• Champlin Rfg. Co. v. Corporation Commission of Oklahoma · 286 U.S. 210 (1932)
• United States v. Trenton Potteries Co. · 273 U.S. 392 (1927)
• Edwards v. California · 314 U.S. 160 (1941)
• Hebert v. Louisiana · 272 U.S. 312 (1926)
• Smith v. Cahoon · 283 U.S. 553 (1931)
• United States v. Wurzbach · 280 U.S. 396 (1930)
• Skiriotes v. Florida · 313 U.S. 69 (1941)
• Woods v. Cloyd W. Miller Co. · 333 U.S. 138 (1948)

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• Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Assn. · 564 U.S. 786 (2011)
• Johnson v. United States · 576 U.S. 591 (2015)
• Jordan v. De George · 341 U.S. 223 (1951)
• Beauharnais v. Illinois · 343 U.S. 250 (1952)
• National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Button · 371 U.S. 415 (1963)
• United States v. Harriss · 347 U.S. 612 (1954)
• Kovacs v. Cooper · 336 U.S. 77 (1949)
• Time, Inc. v. Hill · 385 U.S. 374 (1967)
• Cramp v. Board of Public Instruction of Orange Cty. · 368 U.S. 278 (1961)
• Dyson v. Stein · 401 U.S. 200 (1971)
• Roth v. United States · 354 U.S. 476 (1957)
• Branzburg v. Hayes · 408 U.S. 665 (1972)
• Stanley v. Georgia · 394 U.S. 557 (1969)
• Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton · 413 U.S. 49 (1973)
• Dennis v. United States · 341 U.S. 494 (1951)
• Ginsberg v. New York · 390 U.S. 629 (1968)
• Abood v. Detroit Board of Education · 431 U.S. 209 (1977)
• American Communications Assn. v. Douds · 339 U.S. 382 (1950)
• Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson · 343 U.S. 495 (1952)
• Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc. · 501 U.S. 560 (1991)
• Pope v. Illinois · 481 U.S. 497 (1987)
• Barenblatt v. United States · 360 U.S. 109 (1959)
• Garner v. Louisiana · 368 U.S. 157 (1961)
• Interstate Circuit, Inc. v. City of Dallas · 390 U.S. 676 (1968)
• Wright v. Georgia · 373 U.S. 284 (1963)
• Younger v. Harris · 401 U.S. 37 (1971)
• Buckley v. Valeo · 424 U.S. 1 (1976)
• Grayned v. City of Rockford · 408 U.S. 104 (1972)
• Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · 455 U.S. 489 (1982)
• Mullaney v. Wilbur · 421 U.S. 684 (1975)

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