Table of contents

1 1790-1819 2 1820-1839 3 1840-1859 4 1860-1879 5 1880-1899 6 1900-1919 7 1920-1939 8 1940-1959 9 1960-1979 10 1980-1999 11 2000-present 12 References

1790-1819

• Chisholm v. Georgia February 19, 1793: first "major" case
• Marbury v. Madison February 24, 1803: judicial review
• Fletcher v. Peck March 16, 1810: property rights
• Martin v. Hunter's Lessee March 20, 1816: Loyalist property forfeiture
• McCulloch v. Maryland March 6, 1819: doctrine of implied powers
• Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward February 25, 1819: impairment of contracts

• Cohens v. Virginia 1821:
• Gibbons v. Ogden 1824: Congressional power
• Cherokee Nation v. Georgia 1831: Indian nations as foreign states
• Worcester v. Georgia 1832: Indian removal
• Barron v. Baltimore 1833: reach of the Bill of Rights

• Prigg v. Pennsylvania 1842: runaway slaves
• Souther v. Virginia 1850
• Dred Scott v. Sandford 1857: slavery, citizenship

• Ex Parte Merriman 1861
• Ex Parte Milligan 1866: habeas corpus, military tribunals
• Ex Parte Garland 1866
• Regina v. Hicklin 1868: attorney-client privilege, "work product"
• Ex Parte McCardle 1869
• United States v. Klein 1871
• Slaughterhouse Cases 1872: freedom of employment
• Bradwell v. Illinois 1873: equal protection, excluding women from employment
• United States v. Cruikshank 1875: The First and Second Amendment do not apply to the States, despite the Fourteenth Amendment
• Munn v. Illinois 1876

• Civil Rights Cases 1883
• Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad 1886
• Dent v. West Virginia 1889: state licensing of doctors
• Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad v. Minnesota 1890: states and railway fees
• In re Debs 1894: strikes and interstate commerce
• Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co 1895: income tax and tariffs
• United States v. E. C. Knight Co 1895: antitrust action; "Sugar Trust Case"
• Plessy v. Ferguson 1896: segregation, "separate but equal"
• United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Association 1897: railroads and rate fixing
• Hawker v. New York 1898: character and doctor's licenses
• United States v. Wong Kim Ark 1898: citizenship and race
• Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education 1899: segregation in public schools

• Insular Cases 1901: constitutional status of Puerto Rico and Philippines
• Gonzales v. Williams 1904: Puerto Ricans and illegal aliens
• Lochner v. New York 1905: freedom of contract, substantive due process
• Northwestern National Life Insurance Co. v. Riggs 1906
• Hale v. Henkel 1906: witness testimony in antitrust cases
• Berea College v. Kentucky 211 US 45 1908: state laws and segregation of educational facilities
• Muller v. Oregon 1908: protective labor laws, protection of women
• Adair v. United States 1908: "yellow-dog" contracts
• Bobbs-Merrill Co v. Straus 1908 Extension of copyright holder rights with license terms
• United States v. Grimaud 1911: Control of forest reserves
• 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.
• Guinn v. United States 1915
• Buchanan v. Warley 1917: racial covenants
• Hammer v. Dagenhart 1918
• Schenck v. United States 1919: freedom of speech, "clear and present danger"

• Adkins v. Children's Hospital 1923: freedom of contract, minimum wage laws
• Gitlow v. New York 1925
• Myers v. United States 1926
• Whitney v. California 1927
• Near v. Minnesota 1931: freedom of speech
• Powell v. Alabama 1932
• Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States 1935: interstate commerce, New Deal
• West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish\ 1937: freedom of contract, minimum wage laws, "the switch in time that saved nine"
• Connecticut General Life Insurance Company v. Johnson 1938
• United States v. Miller 1939

• Chambers v. Florida 1940
• Betts v. Brady 1942
• Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire 1942: fighting words
• Smith v. Allwright 1944
• Korematsu v. United States 1944: Japanese internment
• Shelley v. Kraemer 1948: equal protection, racial covenants
• Wheeling Steel Corp. v. Glander 1949
• Sweatt v. Painter 1950
• McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents 1950
• Dennis v. United States 1951
• Bolling v. Sharpe 1954, segregation
• Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka 1954: segregation , "separate inherently inequal"
• Roth v. United States 1957: obscenity
• NAACP v. Alabama 1958

• Boynton v. Virginia 1960
• Mapp v. Ohio 1961: search and seizure, exclusionary rule
• Torcaso v. Watkins, 367 U.S. 488 1961: oaths, religious test, 1st Amendment
• Engel v. Vitale 1962: school prayer
• Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186 1962: reapportionment issues
• Abington School District v. Schempp 1963: mandatory bible reading in public school
• Gideon v. Wainwright 1963: right to counsel
• New York Times Co. v. Sullivan 1964: freedom of speech, libel
• Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States 1964: interstate commerce, civil rights, public accommodations
• Wesberry v. Sanders 1964: size of districts
• Griswold v. Connecticut 1965: privacy, birth control
• Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections 1966
• Cleland v. Massachusetts 1966: ruling on obscenity
• Miranda v. Arizona 1966: self-incrimination, "you have the right to remain silent"
• In Re Gault 1967: due process, juveniles
• Loving v. Virginia 1967: interracial marriage
• Street v. New York 1969
• Tinker v. Des Moines Schools 1969: freedom of speech
• Brandenburg v. Ohio 1969: freedom of speech, KKK
• Cohen v. California 1971: freedom of speech, fighting words, "fuck the draft"
• Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education 1971
• Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602 1971: establishment of religion, schools, "the Lemon test"
• Griggs v. Duke Power Co 1971
• New York Times Co. v. United States 1971: freedom of the press, national security, Pentagon Papers
• Edwards v. Agillard 1971
• Furman v. Georgia 1972: death penalty, cruel and unusual punishment
• Roe v. Wade 1973: abortion, due process, privacy
• Miller v. California 1973: freedom of speech, Miller test for obscenity
• United States v. Nixon 1974: judicial review, executive privilege, separation of powers
• Milliken v. Bradley 1974: segregation, busing
• Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo 1974: freedom of speech
• Gregg v. Georgia 1976: death penalty
• Collins v. Smith 1976
• FCC v. Pacifica Foundation 1978 obscenity, FCC policing of obscenity
• Regents of the University of California v. Bakke 1978: racial discrimination, affirmative action

• Plyler v. Doe 1982
• Bernal v. Fainter, 467 U.S. 216 1984: notary public need not be citizen
• Lynch v. Donnelly 1984
• Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios, 464 U.S. 417 1984: copyright, VCR "time-shifting", fair use
• Wallace v. Jaffree 1985
• Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority, 469 U.S. 528 1985
• Vinson v. Meritor Savings Bank 1986
• Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186 1986: homosexuality (see also Texas v. Lawrence (2003)
• 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
• Edwards v. Aguillard 1987
• Morrison v. Olson 1988
• Hustler Magazine v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46 1988: parody, emotional distress
• Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier 1988
• Community For Creative Non-Violence v. Reid 490 U.S. 730 (1989): Copyright, Work for hire
• Martin v. Wilks 1989
• Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 1989: freedom of speech (flag burning)
• United States v. Eichman 1990: freedom of speech (flag burning)
• Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service Co, 499 U.S. 340 1991: creativity required for copyright protection
• Planned Parenthood v. Casey 1992: abortion
• R. A. V. v. City of St. Paul 1992: fighting words, hate speech
• Lee v. Weisman 1992
• Alexander v. United States 1993
• Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music 1994: copyright, commercial fair use is possible, parody
• United States v. Shabani 1994
• Adarand Constructors v. Peña 1995
• United States v. Alfonso Lopez, Jr 1995: interstate commerce, gun-free school zones
• Romer v. Evans 1996: equal protection, homosexuality
• Hopwood v. Texas 1996
• Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union 1997: free speech, obscenity, CDA
• Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services 1998: sexual harassment by same sex unlawful
• Hunt v. Cromartie 1999: gerrymandering
• Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board v. College Savings Bank 1999: sovereign immunity of the states

• United States v. Morrison 2000
• Boy Scouts of America v. Dale 2000: right of free association, homosexuality
• Bush v. Gore 2000: elections
• Easley v. Cromartie 2001: racial discrimination, gerrymandering
• Newdow v. United States Congress 2002: the Pledge of Allegiance
• Eldred v. Ashcroft 2003: copyright duration
• Grutter v. Bollinger 2003: racial discrimination, affirmative action, equal protection
• Gratz v. Bollinger 2003: racial discrimination, affirmative action, equal protection
• Lawrence v. Texas 2003: liberty, due process, homosexuality
• McConnell v. FEC 2003: Some political speech is not protected by the First Amendment
• Doe v. Chao 2003: governmental violation of privacy rights