List of United States Supreme Court cases
This is a chronological
list of notable cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States.
1790-1819
1820-1839
1840-1859
1860-1879
\n* Ex Parte Merryman 1861: power to suspend writ of habeas corpus, wartime civil liberties, ignored by Lincoln\n* Ex Parte Milligan 1866: habeas corpus, military tribunals\n* Ex Parte Garland 1866: retroactive civil disability for former Confederate officers \n* Regina v. Hicklin 1868: attorney-client privilege, "work product"\n* Ex Parte McCardle 1869: congressional power to limit Supreme Court's appellate jurisdiction\n* United States v. Klein 1871\n* Slaughterhouse Cases 1872: freedom of employment\n* Bradwell v. Illinois 1873: equal protection, excluding women from employment\n* United States v. Cruikshank 1875: The First and Second Amendment do not apply to the States, despite the Fourteenth Amendment\n* Munn v. Illinois 1876
1880-1899
\n* Civil Rights Cases 1883 \n* Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad 1886 \n* Wabash v. Illinois 1886: individual states can not regulate interstate commerce\n* Dent v. West Virginia 1889: state licensing of doctors\n* Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad v. Minnesota 1890: states and railway fees\n* Nix v. Hedden 1893: status of tomato as fruit or vegetable\n* In re Debs 1894: strikes and interstate commerce\n* Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co 1895: income tax and tariffs\n* United States v. E. C. Knight Co 1895: antitrust action; "Sugar Trust Case"\n* Plessy v. Ferguson 1896: segregation, "separate but equal"\n* United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Association 1897: railroads and rate fixing\n* Hawker v. New York 1898: character and doctor's licenses\n* Holden v. Hardy 1898\n* United States v. Wong Kim Ark 1898: citizenship and race\n* Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education 1899: segregation in public schools
1900-1919
\n* Insular Cases 1901: constitutional status of Puerto Rico and the Philippines\n* Gonzales v. Williams 1904: Puerto Ricans and illegal aliens\n* Lochner v. New York 1905: freedom of contract, substantive due process\n* Northwestern National Life Insurance Co. v. Riggs 1906\n* Hale v. Henkel 1906: witness testimony in antitrust cases\n* Berea College v. Kentucky 211 US 45 1908: state laws and segregation of educational facilities\n* Muller v. Oregon 1908: protective labor laws, protection of women \n* Adair v. United States 1908: "yellow-dog" contracts\n* Bobbs-Merrill Co v. Straus 1908 Extension of copyright holder rights with license terms\n* United States v. Grimaud 1911: Control of forest reserves\n* Bauer & Cie. v. O'Donnell 1913 No extending patent with license, no exclusive right by holder on "use" of copyrighted works. Licesened and sold are the same thing if purchased as finished product.\n* Guinn v. United States 1915\n* Buchanan v. Warley 1917: racial covenants\n* Hammer v. Dagenhart 1918: Congressional power to regulate child labor under the Commerce Clause\n* Schenck v. United States 1919: freedom of speech, "clear and present danger"
1920-1939
\n* Adkins v. Children's Hospital 1923: freedom of contract, minimum wage laws\n* Gitlow v. New York 1925\n* Pierce v. Society of Sisters 1925: privacy\n* Myers v. United States 1926\n* Buck v. Bell 1927: compulsory sterilization, eugenics\n* Whitney v. California 1927\n* Near v. Minnesota 1931: freedom of speech\n* Powell v. Alabama 1932\n* Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States 1935: interstate commerce, New Deal\n* West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish 1937: freedom of contract, minimum wage laws, "the switch in time that saved nine"\n* Connecticut General Life Insurance Company v. Johnson 1938 \n* United States v. Miller 1939
1940-1959
\n* Chambers v. Florida 1940 \n* Betts v. Brady 1942 \n* Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire 1942: fighting words\n* Skinner v. Oklahoma 1942: compulsory sterilization, eugenics\n* Smith v. Allwright 1944\n* Korematsu v. United States 1944: Japanese internment\n* Shelley v. Kraemer 1948: equal protection, racial covenants \n* Wheeling Steel Corp. v. Glander 1949\n* Sweatt v. Painter 1950 \n* McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents 1950 \n* Dennis v. United States 1951\n* Rochin v. California 1952: restriction of police power\n* Bolling v. Sharpe 1954, segregation\n* Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka 1954: segregation , "separate inherently inequal"\n* Roth v. United States 1957: obscenity\n* NAACP v. Alabama 1958
1960-1979
\n* Boynton v. Virginia, 364 U.S. 454 1960: racial segregation \n* Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643 1961: search and seizure, exclusionary rule \n* Torcaso v. Watkins, 367 U.S. 488 1961: oaths, religious test, 1st Amendment\n* Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 1962: school prayer \n* Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186 1962: reapportionment issues\n* Abington School District v. Schempp, 374 U.S. 203 1963: mandatory bible reading in public school\n* Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 1963: right to counsel \n* New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 1964: freedom of speech, libel\n* Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States, 379 U.S. 241 1964: interstate commerce, civil rights, public accommodations\n* Wesberry v. Sanders, 376 U.S. 1 1964: size of districts\n*Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 562 1964: population size of districts for state senates. \n* Jacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184 1964: I know [obscenity] when I see it[.] - Justice Potter Stewart\n* Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 1965: privacy, birth control\n* Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections, 383 U.S. 663 1966\n* Cleland v. Massachusetts (Actually Memoirs v. Massachusetts), 383 U.S. 413 1966: ruling on obscenity\n* Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 1966: self-incrimination, "you have the right to remain silent" \n* In Re Gault, 387 U.S. 1 1967: due process, juveniles\n* Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 1967: interracial marriage\n* Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 1968: search and seizure, right of police to stop and frisk suspicious persons \n* Street v. New York, 394 U.S. 576 1969\n* Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC, 395 U.S. 367 1969: Fairness Doctrine, broadcaster responsibilities, freedom of speech \n* Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503 1969: freedom of speech balanced against discipline in public schools \n* Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444 1969: freedom of speech, incitement to riot\n* Cohen v. California, 403 U.S. 15 1971: freedom of speech, fighting words/obscenity, "fuck the draft"\n* Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, 400 U.S. 803 1971: busing authorized to establish school desegregation\n* Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602 1971: establishment of religion, schools, "the Lemon test"\n* Griggs v. Duke Power Co, 401 U.S. 424 1971: employment discrimination; disparate impact of employer practices \n* New York Times Co. v. United States 1971: freedom of the press, national security, Pentagon Papers\n* Edwards v. Agillard 1971\n* Wisconsin v. Yoder 1971: freedom of religion, high school education\n* Furman v. Georgia 1972: death penalty, cruel and unusual punishment \n* Roe v. Wade 1973: abortion, due process, privacy \n* Miller v. California 1973: freedom of speech, Miller test for obscenity\n* United States v. Nixon 1974: judicial review, executive privilege, separation of powers \n* Milliken v. Bradley 1974: segregation, busing\n* Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo 1974: freedom of speech\n* Gregg v. Georgia 1976: death penalty\n* Collins v. Smith 1976\n* FCC v. Pacifica Foundation 1978 obscenity, FCC policing of obscenity \n* Regents of the University of California v. Bakke 1978: racial discrimination, affirmative action
1980-1999
\n* Consolidated Edison Co. v. Public Serv. Comm'n 447 U.S. 530 1980: freedom of speech (companies including information inserts with bills)\n* Plyler v. Doe 457 U.S. 202 1982: children of illegal immigrants may not be refused education\n* Bernal v. Fainter, 467 U.S. 216 1984: notary public need not be citizen\n* Lynch v. Donnelly, 465 U.S. 668 1984: public religious display on private property\n* Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios, 464 U.S. 417 1984: copyright, VCR "time-shifting", fair use\n* Wallace v. Jaffree, 472 U.S. 38 1985: school sponsorship of voluntary religious observances \n* Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority, 469 U.S. 528 1985\n* Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, 477 U.S. 57 1986\n* Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186 1986: homosexuality (later reversed); see also Texas v. Lawrence (2003)\n* Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 1986: peremptory challenge, racial discrimination\n* Nix v. Whiteside 1986: attorney-client privilege\n* South Dakota v. Dole, 483 U.S. 203 1987: Withholding of Federal highway funds to force state to raise drinking age to 21 is permissible \n* Edwards v. Aguillard 1987 \n* Morrison v. Olson 1988 independent counsel's office\n* Hustler Magazine v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46 1988: 1st Amendment; parody, emotional distress\n* Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier 1988\n* Community For Creative Non-Violence v. Reid 490 U.S. 730 (1989): Copyright, Work for hire \n* Martin v. Wilks 1989\n* Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 1989: freedom of speech (flag burning)\n* United States v. Eichman 1990: freedom of speech (flag burning)\n* Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service Co, 499 U.S. 340 1991: creativity required for copyright protection\n* Planned Parenthood v. Casey 1992: abortion\n* R. A. V. v. City of St. Paul 1992: fighting words, hate speech\n* Lee v. Weisman 1992\n* Alexander v. United States 1993\n* Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah 1993: animal cruelty, freedom of religion\n* Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music 1994: copyright, commercial fair use is possible, parody\n* United States v. Shabani 1994\n* Adarand Constructors v. Peņa 1995\n* United States v. Alfonso Lopez, Jr 1995: interstate commerce, gun-free school zones\n* Romer v. Evans 1996: equal protection, homosexuality\n* Hopwood v. Texas 1996\n* 44 Liquormart, Inc. v. State of Rhode Island 1996: restrictions of promotion of alcohol\n* Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union 1997: free speech, obscenity, CDA\n* Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services 1998: sexual harassment by same sex unlawful\n* Hunt v. Cromartie 1999: gerrymandering\n* Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board v. College Savings Bank 1999: sovereign immunity of the states
2000-present
- United States v. Morrison 2000\n* Boy Scouts of America v. Dale 2000: right of free association, homosexuality\n* Bush v. Gore 2000: Vote recounts in presidential election\n* Easley v. Cromartie 2001: racial discrimination, gerrymandering\n* Republican Party of Minnesota v. White 2002: election of state judges, freedom of speech\n* Eldred v. Ashcroft 2003: copyright duration\n* Grutter v. Bollinger 2003: racial discrimination, affirmative action, equal protection\n* Gratz v. Bollinger 2003: racial discrimination, affirmative action, equal protection\n* Lawrence v. Texas 2003: liberty, due process, homosexuality\n* McConnell v. FEC 2003: Some political speech is not protected by the First Amendment\n* Doe v. Chao 2004: governmental violation of privacy rights\n* Intel Corp. v. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc 2004: foreign tribunals\n* Central Laborers' Pension Fund v. Heinz 2004: an ambiguity in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act\n* United States v. Benitez 2004: the responsibility of a defendant in the case of a violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11\n* Department of Transportation v. Public Citizen 2004: Presidential foreign affairs and foreign trade Actions\n* Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow 2004: Validity of "under God" in Pledge of Allegiance; standing to bring suit on another's behalf. \n* Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court of Nevada 2004: State law permitted to require citizens to identify themselves to police.\n* Hamdi v. Rumsfeld 2004: detention of American citizens\n* Rumsfeld v. Padilla 2004: detention of American citizens\n* Rasul v. Bush 2004: jurisdiction over foreign nationals detained in Guantanamo Bay\n* Blakely v. Washington 2004: right to jury trial, judge-enhanced criminal sentences
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