List of United States Supreme Court cases
This is a list of cases decided by the United States Supreme Court. This list does not contain every case decided by the Supreme Court. For all cases, see Lists of United States Supreme Court cases by volume.
Jay Court
| Case name | Citation | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Beginning of active duty of Chief Justice John Jay, October 19, 1789 | ||
| Van Staphorst v. Maryland | (1791) | first docketed case of the Supreme Court, settled before arguments |
| West v. Barnes | 2 U.S. 401 (1791) | first decision of the Supreme Court, strictly interpreting procedural filing requirements mandated by statute |
| Georgia v. Brailsford | 2 U.S. 402 (1792) | A State may sue in the Supreme Court to enjoin payment of a judgment on foreign debt until it can be ascertained to whom the money belongs |
| Hayburn's Case | 2 U.S. 409 (1792) | justiciability and separation of powers |
| Georgia v. Brailsford | 2 U.S. 415 (1793) | suits in which states may be a party; continuation of Georgia v. Brailsford (1792) |
| Chisholm v. Georgia | 2 U.S. 419 (1793) | first “major” case; federal jurisdiction over suits vs. states; state sovereign immunity; led to Eleventh Amendment |
| Georgia v. Brailsford | 3 U.S. 1 (1794) | Jury nullification |
Rutledge Court
| Case name | Citation | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Beginning of active duty of Chief Justice John Rutledge, August 12, 1795 | ||
| United States v. Peters | 3 U.S. 121 (1795) | Federal district court has no authority over a foreign privateer when the captured ship was not within its jurisdiction. |
| Talbot v. Janson | 3 U.S. 133 (1795) | admiralty and citizenship |
Ellsworth Court
| Case name | Citation | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Beginning of active duty of Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth, March 8, 1796 | ||
| Hylton v. United States | 3 U.S. 171 (1796) | tax on carriages |
| Hollingsworth v. Virginia | 3 U.S. 378 (1798) | ratification of Eleventh Amendment, presidential approval is unnecessary for Constitutional amendment |
| Calder v. Bull | 3 U.S. 386 (1798) | ex post facto clause applies to criminal, not civil cases |
| New York v. Connecticut | (1799) | first original jurisdiction suit between two States |
Marshall Court
| Case name | Citation | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Beginning of active duty of Chief Justice John Marshall, February 4, 1801 | ||
| Talbot v. Seeman | 5 U.S. 1 (1801) | Marine salvage rights in time of war |
| Marbury v. Madison | 5 U.S. 137 (1803) | judicial review of laws enacted by the United States Congress |
| Stuart v. Laird | 5 U.S. 299 (1803) | enforceability of rulings issued by judges who have since been removed from office |
| Little v. Barreme | 6 U.S. 170 (1804) | presidential and congressional power |
| Bailiff v. Tipping | 6 U.S. 406 (1805) | a citation (a court order for a person to appear) must accompany a writ of error in order for the Supreme Court to hear the case |
| Strawbridge v. Curtiss | 7 U.S. 267 (1806) | federal diversity jurisdiction |
| Ex parte Bollman | 8 U.S. 75 (1807) | habeas corpus, definition of treason, Supreme Court's power to issue writs to circuit courts |
| Fletcher v. Peck | 10 U.S. 87 (1810) | property rights |
| United States v. Hudson and Goodwin | 11 U.S. 32 (1812) | Federal court jurisdiction over common law crimes |
| The Schooner Exchange v. M'Faddon | 11 U.S. 116 (1812) | capture and possession of foreign ships |
| Fairfax's Devisee v. Hunter's Lessee | 11 U.S. 603 (1813) | Loyalist property forfeiture |
| Martin v. Hunter's Lessee | 14 U.S. 304 (1816) | Loyalist property forfeiture, Supreme Court review of state court judgments |
| Laidlaw v. Organ | 15 U.S. 178 (1817) | the rule of caveat emptor in a commodity delivery contract |
| Craig v. Radford | 16 U.S. 594 (1818) | Jay Treaty protection of alien enemy defeasible estate; surveying law |
| McCulloch v. Maryland | 17 U.S. 316 (1819) | doctrine of implied powers |
| Sturges v. Crowninshield | 17 U.S. 122 (1819) | constitutionality of state bankruptcy laws |
| Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward | 17 U.S. 518 (1819) | impairment of contracts |
| Cohens v. Virginia | 19 U.S. 264 (1821) | judicial review of state supreme court decisions |
| Johnson v. M'Intosh | 21 U.S. 8 (1823) | inability of Native Americans to own land |
| Gibbons v. Ogden | 22 U.S. 1 (1824) | Congressional power to regulate interstate commerce |
| Osborn v. Bank of the United States | 22 U.S. 738 (1824) | scope of Article III jurisdiction; interpretation of the 11th Amendment |
| The Antelope | 23 U.S. 66 (1825) | The Supreme Court's initial consideration of the legitimacy of the international slave trade. |
| Ogden v. Saunders | 25 U.S. 213 (1827) | state bankruptcy law |
| American Ins. Co. v. 356 Bales of Cotton | 26 U.S. 511 (1828) | The Territorial Clause and the ability of Congress to set up Article I tribunals |
| Willson v. Black-Bird Creek Marsh Co. | 27 U.S. 245 (1829) | Dormant Commerce Clause |
| Cherokee Nation v. Georgia | 30 U.S. 1 (1831) | Indian nations as foreign states |
| Worcester v. Georgia | 31 U.S. 515 (1832) | Indian removal |
| Barron v. Baltimore | 32 U.S. 243 (1833) | reach of the Bill of Rights |
| Ex Parte Madrazzo | 32 U.S. 627 (1833) | standing in an admiralty case |
| Wheaton v. Peters | 33 U.S. 591 (1834) | copyright perpetuity; common law copyright |
Taney Court
| Case name | Citation | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Beginning of active duty of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, March 28, 1836 (11 days after his 59th birthday) | ||
| United States v. Segui | 35 U.S. 306 (1836) | upholding the validity of a Spanish land grant in Florida |
| Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge | 36 U.S. 420 (1837) | Contract Clause of the Constitution |
| The Amistad | 40 U.S. 518 (1841) | slave trade and slave ownership |
| Swift v. Tyson | 41 U.S. 1 (1842) | Federal common law in diversity jurisdiction cases, later overturned |
| Prigg v. Pennsylvania | 41 U.S. 539 (1842) | runaway slaves |
| Luther v. Borden | 48 U.S. 1 (1849) | guarantee clause of Article Four of the United States Constitution |
| Passenger Cases | 48 U.S. 283 (1849) | taxation of immigrants, constitutionality of state laws regarding foreign commerce |
| Sheldon v. Sill | 49 U.S. 441 (1850) | Congressional control of the jurisdiction of the lower federal courts |
| Hotchkiss v. Greenwood | 52 U.S. 248 (1850) | Early standard for non-obviousness in United States patent law |
| Strader v. Graham | 51 U.S. 82 (1851) | slavery and the application of state laws thereof |
| Cooley v. Board of Wardens | 53 U.S. 299 (1852) | pilotage laws under the Commerce Clause |
| Dred Scott v. Sandford | 60 U.S. 393 (1857) | slavery, the definition of citizenship |
| Ableman v. Booth | 62 U.S. 506 (1859) | The contradiction of Federal law by States |
| Prize Cases | 67 U.S. 635 (1863) | presidential powers in wartime |
Chase Court
| Case name | Citation | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Beginning of active duty of Chief Justice Salmon Portland Chase, December 15, 1864 | ||
| Ex parte Milligan | 71 U.S. 2 (1866) | habeas corpus, military tribunals |
| Ex parte Garland | 71 U.S. 333 (1866) | retroactive civil disability for former Confederate officers |
| Mississippi v. Johnson | 71 U.S. 475 (1867) | power of the Supreme Court to constitutionally issue an injunction directed at the President |
| Pervear v. Massachusetts | 72 U.S. 475 (1866) | upholding harsh penalty for violation of state liquor laws, and declining to apply Eighth Amendment to the states |
| Crandall v. Nevada | 73 U.S. 35 (1868) | Right to travel bars taxation of parties leaving a state |
| Georgia v. Stanton | 73 U.S. 50 (1868) | power of the Court to rule on constitutionality of Reconstruction Acts; parameters of the Court's jurisdiction |
| United States v. Kirby | 74 U.S. 482 (1868) | construction of criminal statutes |
| Ex parte McCardle | 74 U.S. 506 (1868) | congressional power to limit Supreme Court’s appellate jurisdiction |
| Texas v. White | 74 U.S. 700 (1869) | constitutionality of state secession |
| Ex parte Yerger | 75 U.S. 85 (1869) | habeas corpus case that became moot when Yerger was released before the court ruling; therefore not actually heard by the Supreme Court |
| Paul v. Virginia | 75 U.S. 168 (1869) | Privileges & Immunities Clause does not apply to corporations, Commerce Clause does not apply to insurance policies |
| Hepburn v. Griswold | 75 U.S. 603 (1870) | constitutionality of legal tender laws |
| Baker v. Morton | 79 U.S. 150 (1870) | land claims in the Nebraska Territory |
| United States v. Klein | 80 U.S. 128 (1871) | separation of powers |
| Taylor v. Taintor | 83 U.S. 366 (1872) | rights and responsibilities of bail bondsmen |
| Slaughterhouse Cases | 83 U.S. 36 (1873) | freedom of employment |
| Bradwell v. State of Illinois | 83 U.S. 130 (1873) | equal protection, exclusion of women from employment |
Waite Court
Fuller Court
White Court
Taft Court
| Case name | Citation | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Beginning of active duty of Chief Justice William Howard Taft, July 11, 1921 | ||
| United States v. Phellis | 257 U.S. 156 (1921) | shares in a subsidiary corporation issued to stockholders in the parent corporation considered taxable income |
| Leser v. Garnett | 258 U.S. 130 (1922) | constitutionality of Nineteenth Amendment |
| Balzac v. Porto Rico | 258 U.S. 298 (1922) | sometimes considered one of the Insular Cases |
| United States v. Moreland | 258 U.S. 433 (1922) | Fifth Amendment, hard labor in prison |
| Child Labor Tax Case | 259 U.S. 20 (1922) | docket title Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co., found the Child Labor Tax Law of 1919 was not a valid use of Congress' power under the Taxing and Spending Clause |
| Hill v. Wallace | 259 U.S. 44 (1922) | use of congressional taxing power under the Taxing and Spending Clause; relationship to Commerce Clause |
| Federal Baseball Club v. National League | 259 U.S. 200 (1922) | baseball and antitrust regulation |
| Wyoming v. Colorado | 259 U.S. 419 (1922) | whether Colorado could divert water from the Laramie River, an interstate stream system |
| Takao Ozawa v. United States | 260 U.S. 178 (1922) | naturalization and race (Japanese-American) |
| Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon | 260 U.S. 393 (1922) | Substantive Due Process, Takings clause of the Fifth Amendment |
| Moore v. Dempsey | 261 U.S. 86 (1923) | mob-dominated trials, federal writ of habeas corpus, due process |
| United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind | 261 U.S. 204 (1923) | naturalization and race (Indian-American) |
| Adkins v. Children's Hospital | 261 U.S. 525 (1923) | freedom of contract, minimum wage laws |
| Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. v. United States | 261 U.S. 592 (1923) | creation of implied-in-fact contracts |
| Board of Trade of City of Chicago v. Olsen | 262 U.S. 1 (1923) | constitutionality of the Grain Futures Act under the Commerce Clause |
| Meyer v. Nebraska | 262 U.S. 390 (1923) | constitutionality of law prohibiting teaching of foreign languages; substantive due process |
| Frothingham v. Mellon | 262 U.S. 447 (1923) | rejection of taxpayer standing |
| Rindge Co. v. County of Los Angeles | 262 U.S. 700 (1923) | eminent domain and the building of a scenic road |
| Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co. | 263 U.S. 413 (1923) | review of state court decisions by U.S. District Courts |
| Chung Fook v. White | 264 U.S. 443 (1924) | Interpretation of Immigration Act of 1917; marked end of era of strict plain meaning interpretation of statutes |
| United States v. Ninety-Five Barrels (More or Less) Alleged Apple Cider Vinegar | 265 U.S. 438 (1924) | legality of misleading but factually accurate packaging statements under the Pure Food and Drug Act |
| Carroll v. United States | 267 U.S. 132 (1925) | whether police searches of automobiles without a warrant violate the Fourth Amendment |
| Samuels v. McCurdy | 267 U.S. 188 (1925) | Whether the ban on continued possession of previously legal contraband (alcohol in this case) constitutes an ex post facto law |
| George W. Bush & Sons Co. v. Maloy | 267 U.S. 317 (1925) | Dormant Commerce Clause; states are not permitted to regulate common carriers engaged in interstate commerce on state highways |
| Linder v. United States | 268 U.S. 5 (1925) | prosecution of physicians under the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act |
| Irwin v. Gavit | 268 U.S. 161 (1925) | taxation of income from a trust |
| Pierce v. Society of Sisters | 268 U.S. 510 (1925) | privacy |
| Gitlow v. New York | 268 U.S. 652 (1925) | prosecution of seditious speech |
| Bowers v. Kerbaugh-Empire Co. | 271 U.S. 170 (1926) | taxation of reduced loss on exchanged currency |
| Myers v. United States | 272 U.S. 52 (1926) | Presidential authority to remove executive branch officials |
| Village of Euclid, Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co. | 272 U.S. 365 (1926) | zoning, due process |
| United States v. General Electric Co. | 272 U.S. 476 (1926) | patentee who grants a single license to a competitor to manufacture the patented product may lawfully fix the price at which the licensee may sell the product |
| Farrington v. Tokushige | 273 U.S. 284 (1927) | constitutionality of anti-foreign language statute in the Territory of Hawaii under the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment |
| Nixon v. Herndon | 273 U.S. 536 (1927) | challenging the white primaries in Texas |
| Harmon v. Tyler | 273 U.S. 668 (1927) | residential segregation based on race is a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| Buck v. Bell | 274 U.S. 200 (1927) | compulsory sterilization, eugenics |
| Hess v. Pawloski | 274 U.S. 352 (1927) | consent to in personam jurisdiction |
| Whitney v. California | 274 U.S. 357 (1927) | prosecution of criminal syndicalism |
| Gong Lum v. Rice | 275 U.S. 78 (1927) | admission of Chinese girl to school for White children in Mississippi |
| New Mexico v. Texas | 275 U.S. 279 (1927) | determination of the border between New Mexico and Texas |
| Miller v. Schoene | 276 U.S. 272 (1928) | Substantive due process, takings clause |
| Black and White Taxicab Co. v. Brown and Yellow Taxicab Co. | 276 U.S. 518 (1928) | what law is to be applied when courts sit in diversity jurisdiction |
| Olmstead v. United States | 277 U.S. 438 (1928) | admissibility of illegally obtained phone wiretaps as evidence |
| Wisconsin v. Illinois | 278 U.S. 367 (1930) | federal power over state interests, Chicago Sanitary Canal |
| Taft v. Bowers | 278 U.S. 470 (1929) | taxation of a gift of shares of stock under the Sixteenth Amendment (Chief Justice Taft did not participate) |
| United States v. Schwimmer | 279 U.S. 644 (1929) | denial of naturalization to a pacifist, overruled by Girouard v. United States (1946) |
| Pocket Veto Case | 279 U.S. 655 (1929) | constitutionality of the pocket veto |
| Old Colony Trust Co. v. Commissioner | 279 U.S. 716 (1929) | third-party payment of income tax, effect of Revenue Act of 1926 |
Hughes Court
Stone Court
| Case name | Citation | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Elevation of Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, July 3, 1941 | ||
| Edwards v. California | 314 U.S. 160 (1941) | Commerce Clause, privileges and immunities clause of the 14th Amendment |
| Lisenba v. People of State of California | 314 U.S. 219 (1941) | death penalty |
| Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire | 315 U.S. 568 (1942) | fighting words |
| Valentine v. Chrestensen | 316 U.S. 52 (1942) | holding that commercial speech is unprotected by the 1st Amendment |
| United States v. Univis Lens Co. | 316 U.S. 241 (1942) | exhaustion doctrine under U.S. patent law and its relation to price fixing |
| Betts v. Brady | 316 U.S. 455 (1942) | due process, incorporation |
| Skinner v. Oklahoma | 316 U.S. 535 (1942) | compulsory sterilization, eugenics |
| Jones v. City of Opelika I | 316 U.S. 584 (1942) | holding a statute prohibiting the sale of books without a license was constitutional |
| Ex parte Quirin | 317 U.S. 1 (1942) | military tribunals for enemy spies |
| Wickard v. Filburn | 317 U.S. 111 (1942) | Commerce Clause |
| Williams et al. v. State of North Carolina | 317 U.S. 287 (1942) | Divorce and marriage recognition between states |
| Parker v. Brown | 317 U.S. 341 (1943) | Parker immunity doctrine in United States antitrust law |
| Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States | 318 U.S. 363 (1943) | Negotiable instruments, Federal common law |
| Largent v. State of Texas | 318 U.S. 418 (1943) | city ordinance requiring permits in order to solicit orders for books is unconstitutional as applied to the distribution of religious publications |
| Jones v. City of Opelika II | 319 U.S. 103 (1943) | Overruling Jones v. City of Opelika I on rehearing |
| Murdock v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania | 319 U.S. 105 (1943) | licensing fee for door-to-door solicitors was an unconstitutional tax on the Jehovah's Witnesses' right to freely exercise their religion—decided same day as Jones v. City of Opelika II |
| Martin v. Struthers | 319 U.S. 141 (1943) | law prohibiting the distribution of handbills door-to-door violated the First Amendment rights of a Jehovah's Witness—decided same day as Jones v. City of Opelika II |
| Douglas v. City of Jeannette | 319 U.S. 157 (1943) | restraint of criminal prosecution for violation of ordinance disputed in Murdock v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania—decided same day as Jones v. City of Opelika II |
| National Broadcasting Co. Inc. v. United States | 319 U.S. 190 (1943) | regulation of broadcasting networks |
| Burford v. Sun Oil Co. | 319 U.S. 315 (1943) | Abstention doctrine |
| Altvater v. Freeman | 319 U.S. 359 (1943) | justiciability and declaratory judgments |
| Galloway v. United States | 319 U.S. 372 (1943) | directed verdict, 7th Amendment |
| Oklahoma Tax Commission v. United States | 319 U.S. 598 (1943) | restricted Indian land is exempt from state estate taxes |
| West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette | 319 U.S. 624 (1943) | 1st Amendment, establishment of religion (Pledge of Allegiance) |
| Hirabayashi v. United States | 320 U.S. 81 (1943) | curfews against members of a minority group during a war with their country of origin |
| Yasui v. United States | 320 U.S. 115 (1943) | validity of curfews against U.S. citizens of a minority group during war |
| Prince v. Massachusetts | 321 U.S. 158 (1944) | religious liberty and child labor |
| Follett v. Town of McCormick | 321 U.S. 573 (1944) | licensing fees for distribution of religious materials violates freedom of religion |
| Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co. v. Muscoda Local No. 123 | 321 U.S. 590 (1944) | miners' travel time was "work" under the Fair Labor Standards Act |
| Smith v. Allwright | 321 U.S. 649 (1944) | voting rights, segregation |
| United States v. Ballard | 322 U.S. 78 (1944) | religious fraud |
| NLRB v. Hearst Publications | 322 U.S. 111 (1944) | determining whether newsboys are employees or independent contractors for the purposes of the National Labor Relations Act |
| United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Association | 322 U.S. 533 (1944) | applying Sherman Antitrust Act to insurance contracts |
| Skidmore v. Swift & Co. | 323 U.S. 134 (1944) | early standard for judicial review of interpretive rules made by government agencies |
| Korematsu v. United States | 323 U.S. 214 (1944) | Japanese Internment camps |
| Ex parte Endo | 323 U.S. 283 (1944) | Japanese-American internment and loyalty, decided same day as Korematsu |
| United States v. Willow River Power Co. | 324 U.S. 499 (1945) | nature of property rights which constitute a compensable taking |
| Cramer v. United States | 325 U.S. 1 (1945) | conviction for treason |
| Jewell Ridge Coal Corp. v. United Mine Workers of America | 325 U.S. 161 (1945) | underground travel time of coal miners was considered compensable work time under the Fair Labor Standards Act |
| Southern Pacific Company v. Arizona | 325 U.S. 761 (1945) | Dormant Commerce Clause |
| Guaranty Trust Co. v. York | 326 U.S. 99 (1945) | Interpretation of the Erie Doctrine |
| United States v. Detroit & Cleveland Nav. Co. | 326 U.S. 236 (1945) | regulation of common carrier capacity under the Interstate Commerce Act |
| International Shoe Co. v. Washington | 326 U.S. 310 (1945) | personal jurisdiction of states over corporations in other states |
| Commissioner v. Flowers | 326 U.S. 465 (1946) | tax deduction for travel expenses under the Internal Revenue Code |
| Marsh v. Alabama | 326 U.S. 501 (1946) | First and Fourteenth Amendments still applicable against a company town |
| Tucker v. Texas | 326 U.S. 517 (1946) | Local ordinance prohibiting distribution of religious literature violated Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment |
| Estep v. United States | 327 U.S. 114 (1946) | judicial review of draft board determinations |
| Duncan v. Kahanamoku | 327 U.S. 304 (1946) | constitutionality of military tribunals under the Hawaiian Organic Act |
| Commissioner v. Wilcox | 327 U.S. 404 (1946) | embezzled funds not considered taxable income, later overruled by James v. United States |
| Lavender v. Kurn | 327 U.S. 645 (1946) | sufficiency of evidence to send a case to a jury |
| North American Co. v. Securities and Exchange Commission | 327 U.S. 686 (1946) | utility divestiture under the Public Utility Holding Company Act |
| Girouard v. United States | 328 U.S. 61 (1946) | pacifism is not a reason to deny an immigrant citizenship. Overturned United States v. Schwimmer (1929). |
| United States v. Causby | 328 U.S. 256 (1946) | the ancient common law doctrine of ad coelum has no legal effect "in the modern world." |
| Securities and Exchange Commission v. W. J. Howey Co. | 328 U.S. 293 (1946) | definition of "investment contract" under the Securities Act of 1933 |
| Colegrove v. Green | 328 U.S. 549 (1946) | federal courts had no power to become involved in state legislative apportionment—later overruled by Baker v. Carr |
| Pinkerton v. United States | 328 U.S. 640 (1946) | the doctrine of conspiracy, Pinkerton Liability |
| Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co. | 328 U.S. 680 (1946) Girouard v. United States, 328 U.S. 61 (1946) | Preliminary work activities are covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act |
Vinson Court
| Case name | Citation | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Beginning of active duty of Chief Justice Frederick Moore Vinson, June 24, 1946 | ||
| United States v. Carmack | 329 U.S. 230 (1946) | land held by a local government is still subject to eminent domain by the federal government |
| Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber | 329 U.S. 459 (1947) | Attempting a second electrocution after the first fails does not violate the 8th or 5th Amendment. |
| Hickman v. Taylor | 329 U.S. 495 (1947) | work-product doctrine |
| Everson v. Board of Education | 330 U.S. 1 (1947) | First Amendment, establishment of religion |
| U.S. Public Workers v. Mitchell | 330 U.S. 75 (1947) | Hatch Act of 1940 |
| United States v. United Mine Workers | 330 U.S. 258 (1947) | injunction against a strike action |
| Crane v. Commissioner | 331 U.S. 1 (1947) | determination of basis of property secured by a nonrecourse mortgage |
| Adamson v. California | 332 U.S. 46 (1947) | Fifth Amendment, incorporation |
| International Salt Co. v. United States | 332 U.S. 392 (1947) | tying arrangements under the Sherman Act |
| Cox v. United States | 332 U.S. 442 (1947) | scope of review for Jehovah's Witness classified as conscientious objector |
| Sipuel v. Board of Regents of Univ. of Okla. | 332 U.S. 631 (1948) | Fourteenth Amendment, segregation |
| Oyama v. California | 332 U.S. 633 (1948) | California Alien Land Laws, equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment |
| Woods v. Cloyd W. Miller Co. | 333 U.S. 138 (1948) | War Powers Clause |
| McCollum v. Board of Education | 333 U.S. 203 (1948) | Separation of church and state, constitutionality of released time in public schools |
| Shelley v. Kraemer | 334 U.S. 1 (1948) | equal protection, racial covenants |
| United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. | 334 U.S. 131 (1948) | Hollywood studios monopoly |
| Takahashi v. Fish and Game Commission | 334 U.S. 410 (1948) | statute denying commercial fishing licenses to aliens ineligible for citizenship held to violate Equal Protection Clause |
| Saia v. People of the State of New York | 334 U.S. 558 (1948) | ordinance which prohibited the use of sound amplification devices except with permission of the Chief of Police violates First Amendment |
| United States v. National City Lines Inc. | 334 U.S. 573 (1948) | General Motors streetcar conspiracy |
| United States v. Congress of Industrial Organizations | 335 U.S. 106 (1948) | Labor union's publication of statement urging members to vote for a certain candidate for Congress did not violate Taft-Hartley Act |
| Goesaert v. Cleary | 335 U.S. 464 (1948) | Upholding employment restrictions against female bartenders |
| H.P. Hood & Sons v. Du Mond | 336 U.S. 525 (1949) | Dormant Commerce Clause |
| Terminiello v. Chicago | 337 U.S. 1 (1949) | free speech and public order |
| United States v. Interstate Commerce Commission | 337 U.S. 426 (1949) | justiciability |
| Wheeling Steel Corp. v. Glander | 337 U.S. 562 (1949) | Fourteenth Amendment due process, Commerce Clause |
| Wolf v. Colorado | 338 U.S. 25 (1949) | Fourteenth Amendment, state court, evidence from unreasonable search and seizure |
| Hirota v. MacArthur | 338 U.S. 197 (1948) | the United States federal courts lacked the authority to review judgments of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East |
| Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. | 339 U.S. 306 (1950) | proper legal notice in the settlement of a trust |
| Graver Tank & Manufacturing Co. v. Linde Air Products Co. | 339 U.S. 605 (1950) | patent law, doctrine of equivalents |
| Sweatt v. Painter | 339 U.S. 629 (1950) | segregation, separate but equal |
| McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents | 339 U.S. 637 (1950) | Fourteenth Amendment, segregation |
| Johnson v. Eisenträger | 339 U.S. 763 (1950) | jurisdiction of U.S. civilian courts over nonresident enemy aliens; habeas corpus |
| Henderson v. United States | 339 U.S. 816 (1950) | ending segregation in railroad dining cars |
| Feres v. United States | 340 U.S. 135 (1950) | Military exception to government liability under the Federal Tort Claims Act |
| Kiefer-Stewart Co. v. Seagram & Sons, Inc. | 340 U.S. 211 (1951) | agreement among competitors in interstate commerce to fix maximum resale prices of their products violates the Sherman Act |
| Kunz v. New York | 340 U.S. 290 (1951) | free speech restrictions must be "narrowly tailored" |
| Feiner v. New York | 340 U.S. 315 (1951) | Free speech v. public safety--decided same day as Kunz v. New York |
| Dean Milk Co. v. City of Madison, Wisconsin | 340 U.S. 349 (1951) | Dormant Commerce Clause |
| Universal Camera Corp. v. NLRB | 340 U.S. 474 (1951) | judicial review of agency decisions |
| Canton Railroad Company v. Rogan | 340 U.S. 511 (1951) | Maryland's franchise tax on imported and exported goods held not to violate the Import-Export Clause of the United States Constitution |
| Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath | 341 U.S. 123 (1951) | freedom of association |
| Dennis v. United States | 341 U.S. 494 (1951) | First Amendment and the Smith Act |
| Stack v. Boyle | 342 U.S. 1 (1951) | defines excessive bail |
| Rochin v. California | 342 U.S. 165 (1952) | restriction of police power |
| Morissette v. United States | 342 U.S. 246 (1952) | strict liability offenses |
| Dice v. Akron, Canton & Youngstown R. Co. | 342 U.S. 359 (1952) | reverse Erie doctrine, federal standard binding on state court |
| Perkins v. Benguet Mining Co. | 342 U.S. 437 (1952) | general personal jurisdiction over a business that was temporarily based in the court's jurisdiction |
| Frisbie v. Collins | 342 U.S. 519 (1952) | kidnapping of fugitives by state officials is constitutional |
| Ray v. Blair | 343 U.S. 214 (1952) | state rights in the electoral college |
| Beauharnais v. Illinois | 343 U.S. 250 (1952) | First Amendment and "group libel" |
| Zorach v. Clauson | 343 U.S. 306 (1952) | release time programs |
| Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia v. Pollak | 343 U.S. 451 (1952) | First and Fifth Amendment and street car playing music |
| Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson | 343 U.S. 495 (1952) | First Amendment and the censorship of films |
| Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer | 343 U.S. 579 (1952) | presidential power to seize steel mills during strike to ensure wartime production |
| Kawakita v. United States | 343 U.S. 717 (1952) | treason accusation against a person with dual citizenship. |
| Arrowsmith v. Commissioner | 344 U.S. 6 (1952) | Taxpayers classified a payment as an ordinary business loss, which would allow them to take a greater deduction for the loss than would be permitted for a capital loss |
| United States v. Reynolds | 345 U.S. 1 (1953) | State secrets privilege |
| Fowler v. Rhode Island | 345 U.S. 67 (1953) | ordinance construed to penalize a minister of Jehovah's Witnesses for preaching at a peaceful religious meeting in a public park unconstitutional |
| Poulos v. New Hampshire | 345 U.S. 395 (1953) | religious meetings and the Free Exercise Clause |
| Securities and Exchange Commission v. Ralston Purina Co. | 346 U.S. 119 (1953) | a corporation offering "key employees" stock shares is still subject to Section 4(1) of the Securities Act of 1933 |
Warren Court
| Case name | Citation | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Beginning of active duty of Chief Justice Earl Warren, October 5, 1953 | ||
| Toolson v. New York Yankees | 346 U.S. 356 (1953) | baseball antitrust exemption upheld |
| Wilko v. Swan | 346 U.S. 427 (1953) | Claims under Securities Act of 1933 not arbitrable |
| Miller Brothers Co. v. Maryland | 347 U.S. 340 (1954) | use tax imposed by one state against merchant in another state violated Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment |
| Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka | 347 U.S. 483 (1954) | segregation, "separate ... inherently unequal" |
| Hernandez v. Texas | 347 U.S. 475 (1954) | application of the Fourteenth Amendment to Mexican Americans |
| Bolling v. Sharpe | 347 U.S. 497 (1954) | segregation in the District of Columbia |
| United States v. Harriss | 347 U.S. 612 (1954) | constitutionality of The Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act of 1946 |
| Berman v. Parker | 348 U.S. 26 (1954) | eminent domain, takings |
| United States v. International Boxing Club of New York | 348 U.S. 236 (1955) | boxing not exempt from antitrust regulation |
| Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States | 348 U.S. 272 (1955) | Federal government did not owe Indian tribe compensation for timber taken from tribal-occupied lands in Alaska under the 5th Amendment |
| Commissioner v. Glenshaw Glass Co. | 348 U.S. 426 (1955) | definition of taxable income |
| Williamson v. Lee Optical Co. | 348 U.S. 483 (1955) | Due Process Clause, economic liberties |
| Corn Products Refining Co. v. Commissioner | 350 U.S. 46 (1955) | Hedging futures gains are ordinary if on raw materials |
| United Gas Pipe Line Co. v. Mobile Gas Service Corp. | 350 U.S. 332 (1956) | contracts under the Natural Gas Act of 1938 |
| Federal Power Commission v. Sierra Pacific Power Co. | 350 U.S. 348 (1956) | contracts under the Federal Power Act |
| Griffin v. Illinois | 351 U.S. 12 (1956) | access to court transcript for indigent appeals |
| Communist Party v. Subversive Activities Control Board | 351 U.S. 115 (1956) | First of Two Cases involving compulsory registration of Communist Party members. Court didn't answer questions raised concerning constitutionality of Act requiring compulsory registration. |
| Radovich v. National Football League | 352 U.S. 445 (1957) | professional football covered by antitrust laws |
| Reid v. Covert | 354 U.S. 1 (1957) | treaty power, right to jury trial |
| Watkins v. United States | 354 U.S. 178 (1957) | rights of a witness in refusing to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities Committee |
| Yates v. United States | 354 U.S. 298 (1957) | free speech, distinction between expression of opinion and advocacy of action |
| Roth v. United States | 354 U.S. 476 (1957) | obscenity |
| Conley v. Gibson | 355 U.S. 41 (1957) | liberal pleading standards under Rule 8 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure |
| McGee v. International Life Insurance Co. | 355 U.S. 220 (1957) | California did not violate the Due Process Clause when entering a binding judgment on a Texas corporation with "substantial connection[s]" to California |
| Lambert v. California | 355 U.S. 225 (1957) | mens rea and ignorance of the law |
| One, Inc. v. Olesen | 355 U.S. 371 (1958) | pro-homosexual writings and the Comstock laws |
| Perez v. Brownell | 356 U.S. 44 (1958) | revocation of citizenship for voting in a foreign election |
| Trop v. Dulles | 356 U.S. 86 (1958) | Eighth Amendment, loss of citizenship |
| Sherman v. United States | 356 U.S. 369 (1958) | Entrapment provisions apply to actions of government informers as well as agents |
| Byrd v. Blue Ridge Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 356 U.S. 525 (1958) | application of the Erie doctrine |
| Ellis v. United States | 356 U.S. 674 (1958) | Due Process, in forma pauperis |
| Kent v. Dulles | 357 U.S. 116 (1958) | right to travel, power of Secretary of State |
| Societe Internationale v. Rogers | 357 U.S. 197 (1958) | appropriateness of involuntary dismissal of a case in which petitioner failed to produce records of a Swiss bank account |
| NAACP v. Alabama | 357 U.S. 449 (1958) | freedom of association, privacy of membership lists |
| Speiser v. Randall | 357 U.S. 513 (1958) | loyalty oaths |
| Cooper v. Aaron | 358 U.S. 1 (1958) | enforcement of desegregation, "massive resistance" |
| United Gas Pipe Line Co. v. Memphis Light, Gas, and Water Division | 358 U.S. 103 (1958) | contracts under the Natural Gas Act of 1938 |
| Cammarano v. United States | 358 U.S. 498 (1959) | business expenses incurred for the "promotion or defeat of legislation" are not tax deductible |
| Bartkus v. Illinois | 359 U.S. 121 (1959) | "separate sovereigns" exception to double jeopardy; federal and state officials may cooperate in criminal investigations |
| Frank v. Maryland | 359 U.S. 360 (1959) | warrantless administrative searches are permissible under the Fourth Amendment |
| Beacon Theatres v. Westover | 359 U.S. 500 (1959) | right to civil jury trial under the Seventh Amendment, determination of legal & equitable issues |
| Louisiana Power & Light Co. v. City of Thibodaux | 360 U.S. 25 (1959) | Abstention doctrine |
| Barenblatt v. United States | 360 U.S. 109 (1959) | upholding conviction for refusing to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities Committee against First Amendment challenge |
| Smith v. California | 361 U.S. 147 (1959) | sale of obscene books |
| Bates v. City of Little Rock | 361 U.S. 516 (1960) | First Amendment, compelled disclosure of membership lists |
| United States v. Raines | 362 U.S. 17 (1960) | Fifteenth Amendment, Civil Rights Act |
| Federal Power Commission v. Tuscarora Indian Nation | 362 U.S. 99 (1960) | eminent domain over Indian lands |
| Flora v. United States | 362 U.S. 145 (1960) | Pay Income Tax Then Litigate, Internal Revenue Act |
| Dusky v. United States | 362 U.S. 402 (1960) | standard for adjudicative competence |
| Commissioner v. Duberstein | 363 U.S. 278 (1960) | definition of a 'gift' for taxation purposes |
| Flemming v. Nestor | 363 U.S. 603 (1960) | no property right in Social Security benefits |
| Boynton v. Virginia | 364 U.S. 454 (1960) | racial segregation |
| Times Film Corp. v. City of Chicago | 365 U.S. 43 (1961) | required submission of films to rating boards is not necessarily unconstitutional |
| Monroe v. Pape | 365 U.S. 167 (1961) | municipalities cannot be held liable under the Civil Rights Act of 1871 |
| Aro Mfg. Co. v. Convertible Top Replacement Co. | 365 U.S. 336 (1961) | doctrine of repair and reconstruction in United States patent law |
| Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority | 365 U.S. 715 (1961) | state action |
| Gomillion v. Lightfoot | 364 U.S. 339 (1960) | race-based electoral districting |
| James v. United States | 366 U.S. 213 (1961) | assessment of income tax on embezzled funds |
| McGowan v. Maryland | 366 U.S. 420 (1961) | constitutionality of laws with religious origins but secular purposes |
| Braunfeld v. Brown | 366 U.S. 599 (1961) | constitutionality of Sabbath laws requiring Sunday closure of stores |
| Gallagher v. Crown Kosher Super Market of Massachusetts, Inc. | 366 U.S. 617 (1961) | Massachusetts blue laws upheld against challenge by Kosher grocery store |
| Communist Party v. Subversive Activities Control Board | 367 U.S. 1 (1961) | Second of Two Cases involving compulsory registration of Communist Party members. Court upheld constitutionality of Act requiring compulsory registration. |
| Scales v. United States | 367 U.S. 203 (1961) | upheld the conviction of Junius Scales for violating of the Smith Act on the basis on his membership in the Communist Party |
| Jarecki v. G.D. Searle & Co. | 367 U.S. 303 (1961) | using noscitur a sociis to interpret the Excess Profits Tax Act of 1950 |
| Torcaso v. Watkins | 367 U.S. 488 (1961) | oaths, religious test, First Amendment |
| Poe v. Ullman | 367 U.S. 497 (1961) | ripeness to challenge statute banning contraceptives |
| Mapp v. Ohio | 367 U.S. 643 (1961) | search and seizure, exclusionary rule |
| Marcus v. Search Warrant | 367 U.S. 717 (1961) | Procedural burden on state in seizure of obscene material |
| Hamilton v. Alabama | 368 U.S. 52 (1961) | Absence of defendant's counsel at the time of his arraignment violated his rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| Hoyt v. Florida | 368 U.S. 57 (1961) | all-male jury in a woman's murder trial did not violate Fourteenth Amendment |
| Cramp v. Board of Public Instruction | 368 U.S. 278 (1961) | Florida statute required every employee of the State and its subdivisions to swear in writing that, he has never lent his "aid, support, advice, counsel or influence to the Communist Party." violated his rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| Oyler v. Boles | 368 U.S. 448 (1962) | habitual criminal sentencing and due process |
| United Gas Pipe Line Co. v. Ideal Cement Co. | 369 U.S. 134 (1962) | application of the Pullman abstention doctrine |
| Fong Foo v. United States | 369 U.S. 141 (1962) | double jeopardy against federal courts |
| Baker v. Carr | 369 U.S. 186 (1962) | malapportionment of electoral districts; equal protection clause; one person, one vote |
| Goldblatt v. Hempstead | 369 U.S. 590 (1962) | due process, takings clause, safety regulations |
| Engel v. Vitale | 370 U.S. 421 (1962) | school prayer |
| Manual Enterprises v. Day | 370 U.S. 478 (1962) | magazine containing nude photographs of men not considered obscene |
| Jones v. Cunningham | 371 U.S. 236 (1963) | state prison inmates have the right to petition for habeas corpus |
| Wong Sun v. United States | 371 U.S. 471 (1963) | fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine in a narcotics case |
| Schlude v. Commissioner | 372 U.S. 128 (1963) | what income must be included for income tax purposes when accrual method of accounting is used |
| Edwards v. South Carolina | 372 U.S. 229 (1963) | First Amendment, protest marches at state capital |
| Gideon v. Wainwright | 372 U.S. 335 (1963) | right to counsel |
| Douglas v. California | 372 U.S. 353 (1963) | Fourteenth Amendment; right of poor defendants to criminal court appeals |
| Gray v. Sanders | 372 U.S. 368 (1963) | state county districts must conform to "one person, one vote" |
| Gibson v. Florida Legislative Investigation Committee | 372 U.S. 539 (1963) | requiring person divulge information contained in an organization's membership lists violates freedom of association under First Amendment |
| Ferguson v. Skrupa | 372 U.S. 726 (1963) | substantive due process, economic liberties |
| Brady v. Maryland | 373 U.S. 83 (1963) | exculpatory evidence and due process |
| Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Paul | 373 U.S. 132 (1963) | Preemption, Dormant Commerce Clause |
| Silver v. New York Stock Exchange | 373 U.S. 341 (1963) | duty of self-regulation imposed upon the New York Stock Exchange by the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 did not exempt it from the antitrust laws |
| Ker v. California | 374 U.S. 23 (1963) | incorporation of the Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search & seizure against the states |
| Abington School District v. Schempp | 374 U.S. 203 (1963) | constitutionality of mandatory bible reading in public schools |
| Sherbert v. Verner | 374 U.S. 398 (1963) | strict scrutiny for religiously-based discrimination in unemployment compensation |
| England v. Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners | 375 U.S. 411 (1964) | refining procedures for Pullman abstention from deciding issues of state law |
| Wesberry v. Sanders | 376 U.S. 1 (1964) | U.S. Congressional districts must conform to "one person, one vote" |
| Compco Corp. v. Day-Brite Lighting, Inc. | 376 U.S. 234 (1964) | preemption of state unfair competition laws which restrict sale of unpatented items |
| Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Stiffel Co. | 376 U.S. 225 (1964) | preemption of state unfair competition laws which restrict sale of unpatented items, decided same day as Compco Corp. v. Day-Brite Lighting, Inc. |
| New York Times Co. v. Sullivan | 376 U.S. 254 (1964) | freedom of speech, libel |
| Banco Nacional de Cuba v. Sabbatino | 376 U.S. 398 (1964) | jurisdiction of federal courts over acts of foreign countries; act of state doctrine |
| Schneider v. Rusk | 377 U.S. 163 (1964) | Naturalized U.S. citizens have the right to return to and reside in their native countries, and retain their U.S. citizenship, even if they never return to the United States |
| Massiah v. United States | 377 U.S. 201 (1964) | Sixth Amendment prohibition on police speaking to suspect represented by counsel |
| Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County | 377 U.S. 218 (1964) | closing the local school and giving white students vouchers to attend schools outside of the county was unconstitutional under the equal protection clause |
| Wilbur-Ellis Co. v. Kuther | 377 U.S. 422 (1964) | extension of doctrine of repair and reconstruction to enhancement of device's function |
| Reynolds v. Sims | 377 U.S. 533 (1964) | state legislature districts must conform to "one person, one vote" |
| Malloy v. Hogan | 378 U.S. 1 (1964) | Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination was applicable within state courts as well as federal courts |
| Griffin v. Maryland | 378 U.S. 130 (1964) | segregation protests |
| Barr v. City of Columbia | 378 U.S. 146 (1964) | due process and ex post facto law |
| Robinson v. Florida | 378 U.S. 153 (1964) | segregation protests |
| Jacobellis v. Ohio | 378 U.S. 184 (1964) | "I know [obscenity] when I see it[.]" – Justice Potter Stewart |
| Quantity of Books v. Kansas | 378 U.S. 205 (1964) | Seizure of allegedly obscene materials requires prior adversary hearing |
| Bell v. Maryland | 378 U.S. 226 (1964) | segregation protests |
| Bouie v. City of Columbia | 378 U.S. 347 (1964) | due process and ex post facto law |
| United States v. Continental Can Co. | 378 U.S. 441 (1964) | antitrust |
| Escobedo v. Illinois | 378 U.S. 478 (1964) | right to remain silent |
| Cooper v. Pate | 378 U.S. 546 (1964) | The court ruled for the first time that state prison inmates have the standing to sue in federal court to address their grievances under the Civil Rights Act of 1871. |
| Beck v. Ohio | 379 U.S. 89 (1964) | probable cause and searches incident to a lawful arrest |
| McLaughlin v. Florida | 379 U.S. 184 (1964) | striking down an anti-miscegenation law aimed at prevent cohabitation of interracial couples |
| Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States | 379 U.S. 241 (1964) | interstate commerce, civil rights, public accommodations |
| Katzenbach v. McClung | 379 U.S. 294 (1964) | civil rights and interstate commerce, decided same day as Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States |
| Stanford v. Texas | 379 U.S. 476 (1965) | Fourth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, Unconstitutionality of State issued general warrants |
| Cox v. Louisiana | 379 U.S. 536 (1965) | First Amendment, "breach of the peace" statutes |
| Freedman v. Maryland | 380 U.S. 51 (1965) | First Amendment, motion picture censorship |
| United States v. Seeger | 380 U.S. 163 (1965) | definition of religion for a military draft exemption |
| Swain v. Alabama | 380 U.S. 202 (1965) | use of struck jury |
| Hanna v. Plumer | 380 U.S. 460 (1965) | interpretation of the Erie doctrine, Civil Procedure |
| Dombrowski v. Pfister | 380 U.S. 479 (1965) | federal injunction against state criminal trial for subversion |
| Harman v. Forssenius | 380 U.S. 528 (1965) | Virginia's partial repeal of the poll tax violated 24th Amendment |
| Griffin v. California | 380 U.S. 609 (1965) | prosecutor commenting on a defendant's refusal to testify violates the defendant's Fifth Amendment rights |
| One 1958 Plymouth Sedan v. Pennsylvania | 380 U.S. 693 (1965) | evidence that is obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment may not be relied on to sustain a civil forfeiture |
| Griswold v. Connecticut | 381 U.S. 479 (1965) | privacy, birth control |
| Estes v. Texas | 381 U.S. 532 (1965) | overturning Billy Sol Estes conviction on 14th Amendment due process grounds due to pretrial publicity |
| Lamont v. Postmaster General | 381 U.S. 301 (1965) | Declared unconstitutional a Federal statute requiring that addressees of "Communist political propaganda" affirmatively indicate their request to receive such mailings |
| Albertson v. Subversive Activities Control Board | 382 U.S. 70 (1965) | Communist Party of the United States of America members could not be required to register with the government under the Fifth Amendment |
| Graham v. John Deere Co. | 383 U.S. 1 (1966) | nonobviousness as a condition of patentability |
| Baxstrom v. Herold | 383 U.S. 107 (1966) | Prisoners committed to civil mental institutions have a right to a hearing to determine whether or not they are in fact mentally disordered. |
| Brown v. Louisiana | 383 U.S. 131 (1966) | first amendment, right to protest |
| South Carolina v. Katzenbach | 383 U.S. 301 (1966) | Voting Rights Act, Fifteenth Amendment |
| Memoirs v. Massachusetts | 383 U.S. 413 (1966) | obscenity |
| Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections | 383 U.S. 663 (1966) | poll taxes are unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause |
| United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs | 383 U.S. 715 (1966) | federal court jurisdiction over pendent claims |
| United States v. Price | 383 U.S. 787 (1966) | the Mississippi civil rights workers murders |
| Sheppard v. Maxwell | 384 U.S. 333 (1966) | the Sam Sheppard case, defendant's right to a fair trial vs. freedom of the press |
| Miranda v. Arizona | 384 U.S. 436 (1966) | self-incrimination ("right to remain silent") |
| Federal Trade Commission v. Dean Foods Co. | 384 U.S. 597 (1966) | federal agencies can use the All Writs Act to seek an injunction against a threatened action that will substantially interfere with the agency's performance of its statutory duty |
| Katzenbach v. Morgan | 384 U.S. 641 (1966) | voting rights, Section 5 power |
| Schmerber v. California | 384 U.S. 757 (1966) | Unless exigent circumstances exist, state may not take warrantless blood sample from a suspect; Evidence from a blood sample is not compelled testimony and therefore does not implicate the Fifth Amendment privilege against self incrimination |
| Garrity v. New Jersey | 385 U.S. 493 (1967) | rights of police officers against self-incrimination |
| Whitus v. Georgia | 385 U.S. 545 (1967) | racial discrimination in jury selection |
| Redrup v. New York | 386 U.S. 767 (1967) | striking down state power to censor written works of fiction |
| In Re Gault | 387 U.S. 1 (1967) | due process, juveniles |
| Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner | 387 U.S. 136 (1967) | reviewability of administrative decisions |
| Toilet Goods Association, Inc. v. Gardner | 387 U.S. 158 (1967) | ripeness in the context of judicial review of administrative decisions |
| Afroyim v. Rusk | 387 U.S. 253 (1967) | federal government cannot strip a person of his citizenship |
| Reitman v. Mulkey | 387 U.S. 369 (1967) | states may repeal laws providing protection against racial discrimination by Amending their state Constitution of referendum if their immediate objective is neutral and not to facilitate private racism |
| Loving v. Virginia | 388 U.S. 1 (1967) | state laws banning interracial marriage (anti-miscegenation laws) |
| Berger v. New York | 388 U.S. 41 (1967) | Telephone tapping in a bribery case, Fourth Amendment |
| Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts | 388 U.S. 130 (1967) | libel; effect of Sullivan on private figures |
| United States v. Wade | 388 U.S. 218 (1967) | no police lineup without counsel |
| Gilbert v. California | 388 U.S. 263 (1967) | handwriting |
| United States v. Robel | 389 U.S. 258 (1967) | First Amendment, right of association |
| Prima Paint Corp. v. Flood & Conklin Mfg. Co. | 388 U.S. 395 (1967) | Separability principle: challenges to enforceability of contracts with arbitration clauses must be decided by arbitrator unless clause itself is challenged |
| Katz v. United States | 389 U.S. 347 (1967) | wiretapping as search and seizure |
| Zschernig v. Miller | 389 U.S. 429 (1968) | foreign relations and state property law preventing inheritance by nonresident aliens |
| Mora v. McNamara | 389 U.S. 934 (1967) | denial of certiorari in a case questioning the legality of the Vietnam War |
| Haynes v. United States | 390 U.S. 85 (1968) | Compulsory firearm registration as self-incrimination |
| Provident Tradesmens Bank & Trust Co. v. Patterson | 390 U.S. 102 (1968) | indispensable parties under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure |
| Albrecht v. Herald Co. | 390 U.S. 145 (1968) | minimum price agreements between wholesalers and franchisees unlawful under the Sherman Act |
| Avery v. Midland County | 390 U.S. 474 (1968) | local government districts must conform to "one person, one vote" |
| Ginsberg v. New York | 390 U.S. 629 (1968) | States can prohibit sale of obscene material to minors |
| Levy v. Louisiana | 391 U.S. 68 (1968) | An illegitimate child may still sue on behalf of a deceased parent; to deny them this right violates the Fourteenth Amendment |
| Duncan v. Louisiana | 391 U.S. 145 (1968) | selective incorporation, trial by jury |
| United States v. O'Brien | 391 U.S. 367 (1968) | free speech, burning draft cards |
| Menominee Tribe v. United States | 391 U.S. 404 (1968) | Tribal hunting and fishing rights, treaty interpretation |
| Green v. County School Board of New Kent County | 391 U.S. 430 (1968) | "freedom-of-choice" desegregation plan held unconstitutional |
| Witherspoon v. Illinois | 391 U.S. 510 (1968) | constitutional status of a death-qualified jury |
| Pickering v. Board of Education | 391 U.S. 563 (1968) | public employees' free speech rights |
| Terry v. Ohio | 392 U.S. 1 (1968) | search and seizure, power of police to stop and frisk suspicious persons |
| Flast v. Cohen | 392 U.S. 83 (1968) | taxpayer standing |
| United States v. Southwestern Cable Co. | 392 U.S. 157 (1968) | Administrative law |
| King v. Smith | 392 U.S. 309 (1968) | Aid to Families with Dependent Children cannot be denied to families of qualifying children based on a substitute father |
| Mancusi v. DeForte | 392 U.S. 364 (1968) | Fourth Amendment allows reasonable expectation of privacy to exist at workplace |
| Jones v. Mayer | 392 U.S. 409 (1968) | housing discrimination |
| Epperson v. Arkansas | 393 U.S. 97 (1968) | religiously motivated state law prohibiting the teaching of evolution in publicly funded schools |
| Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District | 393 U.S. 503 (1969) | freedom of speech in public schools |
| Shuttlesworth v. Birmingham | 394 U.S. 147 (1969) | overbreadth of local ordinance used by city officials to ban civil rights march |
| Stanley v. Georgia | 394 U.S. 557 (1969) | private possession of obscene material protected under First Amendment |
| Street v. New York | 394 U.S. 576 (1969) | free speech and flag burning |
| Shapiro v. Thompson | 394 U.S. 618 (1969) | Right to travel |
| Leary v. United States | 395 U.S. 6 (1969) | Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 ruled unconstitutional under the Fifth Amendment |
| Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC | 395 U.S. 367 (1969) | Fairness Doctrine, broadcaster responsibilities, freedom of speech |
| Brandenburg v. Ohio | 395 U.S. 444 (1969) | freedom of speech, incitement to riot |
| Powell v. McCormack | 395 U.S. 486 (1969) | political question doctrine, justiciability |
| Kramer v. Union School District | 395 U.S. 621 (1969) | right to vote in a special election district |
| Lear, Inc. v. Adkins | 395 U.S. 653 (1969) | overturning the doctrine of licensee estoppel in U.S. patent law |
| Chimel v. California | 395 U.S. 752 (1969) | search and seizure incident to arrest |
| Benton v. Maryland | 395 U.S. 784 (1969) | double jeopardy |
Burger Court
| Case name | Citation | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Beginning of active duty of Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger, June 23, 1969 | ||
| Anderson's-Black Rock, Inc. v. Pavement Salvage Co. | 396 U.S. 57 (1969) | Standard of nonobviousness in U.S. patent law |
| Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education | 396 U.S. 1218 (1969) | Delays in school desegregation |
| Goldberg v. Kelly | 397 U.S. 254 (1970) | Procedural due process, hearing requirement |
| In re Winship | 397 U.S. 358 (1970) | When a juvenile is charged with an act which would be a crime if committed by an adult, every element of the offense must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt |
| Waller v. Florida | 397 U.S. 387 (1970) | Collateral estoppel as applied to the same factual situation in criminal trials, double jeopardy |
| Ashe v. Swenson | 397 U.S. 436 (1970) | Same as in Waller v. Florida, above |
| Walz v. Tax Commission of the City of New York | 397 U.S. 664 (1970) | Tax exemption for churches |
| Rowan v. U. S. Post Office Dept. | 397 U.S. 728 (1970) | Addressees have unreviewable discretion to refuse further mail from a given sender; senders do not have a constitutional right to send keep someone on a mailing list for unwanted mail |
| Williams v. Florida | 399 U.S. 78 (1970) | Twelve-man jury |
| North Carolina v. Alford | 400 U.S. 25 (1970) | Guilty plea in criminal case |
| Oregon v. Mitchell | 400 U.S. 112 (1970) | Age and voting rights in state elections |
| Massachusetts v. Laird | 400 U.S. 886 (1970) | Court declined to hear a case related to the constitutionality of the Vietnam War |
| Baird v. State Bar of Arizona | 401 U.S. 1 (1971) | states cannot ban people from legal practice due to Communist party membership |
| In re Stolar | 401 U.S. 23 (1971) | A state cannot require bar applicants to list every organization he or she belonged to since starting law school—decided same day as Baird v. State Bar of Arizona |
| Younger v. Harris | 401 U.S. 37 (1971) | Abstention doctrine |
| Citizens to Preserve Overton Park v. Volpe | 401 U.S. 402 (1971) | Judicial review of administrative agency actions |
| Griggs v. Duke Power Co. | 401 U.S. 424 (1971) | Employment discrimination; disparate effect of employer practices |
| Haywood v. National Basketball Association | 401 U.S. 1204 (1971) | Sherman Antitrust Act applied to the NBA |
| Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education | 402 U.S. 1 (1971) | Use of busing for school desegregation |
| Richardson v. Perales | 402 U.S. 389 (1971) | Physicians' written reports of medical examinations of a disability claimant could constitute "substantial evidence" supportive of finding non-disability under the Social Security Act |
| California v. Byers | 402 U.S. 424 (1971) | Statute requiring drivers to provide personal information at the scene of an accident does not infringe on one's Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination |
| United States v. Thirty-seven Photographs | 402 U.S. 363 (1971) | Constitutionality of ban on importation of obscene material |
| Coates v. Cincinnati | 402 U.S. 611 (1971) | Criminal offenses on sidewalk |
| Cohen v. California | 403 U.S. 15 (1971) | Freedom of speech, fighting words/obscenity, “fuck the draft” |
| Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents | 403 U.S. 388 (1971) | Implied right of action in the Fourth Amendment |
| Lemon v. Kurtzman | 403 U.S. 602 (1971) | Laws without a secular purpose violate the Establishment Clause |
| Clay v. United States | 403 U.S. 698 (1971) | Since the Appeal Board gave no reason for the denial of a conscientious objector exemption, petitioner's conviction must be reversed |
| New York Times Co. v. United States | 403 U.S. 713 (1971) | Freedom of the press, national security, Pentagon Papers |
| Reed v. Reed | 404 U.S. 71 (1971) | Extended Fourteenth Amendment rights to women[note 1] |
| Parisi v. Davidson | 405 U.S. 34 (1972) | Conscientious objector status |
| Papachristou v. Jacksonville | 405 U.S. 156 (1972) | Vagrancy ordinance held void for vagueness |
| Federal Trade Commission v. Sperry & Hutchinson Trading Stamp Co. | 405 U.S. 233 (1972) | FTC may act against a company’s “unfair” business practices even though the practice is not an antitrust violation |
| Hawaii v. Standard Oil Co. of California | 405 U.S. 251 (1972) | States cannot sue for general economic damage due to violation of antitrust laws |
| Cruz v. Beto | 405 U.S. 319 (1972) | Free exercise of religion while in prison custody |
| Commissioner v. First Security Bank of Utah, N.A. | 405 U.S. 394 (1972) | Tax reporting for banks prohibited from doing insurance business |
| Eisenstadt v. Baird | 405 U.S. 438 (1972) | Privacy, birth control |
| Sierra Club v. Morton | 405 U.S. 727 (1972) | Standing in cases in which plaintiffs assert interest in aesthetic or recreational interest in property (in this case, Mineral King area) |
| Wisconsin v. Yoder | 406 U.S. 205 (1972) | Freedom of religion, high school education |
| Apodaca v. Oregon | 406 U.S. 404 (1972) | State juries may convict a defendant by less than unanimity |
| Jackson v. Indiana | 406 U.S. 715 (1972) | Indefinite detention of a defendant incompetent to stand trial violates due process and equal protection |
| Aikens v. California | 406 U.S. 813 (1972) | Mootness in a death penalty case |
| The Bremen v. Zapata Off-Shore Company | 407 U.S. 1 (1972) | Enforceability of a forum selection clause |
| Fuentes v. Shevin | 407 U.S. 67 (1972) | Opportunity to be heard |
| Pennsylvania v. New York | 407 U.S. 223 (1972) | State of escheat for unclaimed money orders |
| Flood v. Kuhn | 407 U.S. 258 (1972) | Baseball and antitrust regulation |
| United States v. U.S. District Court | 407 U.S. 297 (1972) | Fourth Amendment, Search and seizure, search warrants, wiretapping |
| Barker v. Wingo | 407 U.S. 514 (1972) | Sixth Amendment and speedy trial |
| Lloyd Corp. v. Tanner | 407 U.S. 551 (1972) | First Amendment; private property; rights |
| Laird v. Tatum | 408 U.S. 1 (1972) | Freedom of speech rights cannot be chilled by the mere existence of government surveillance and data gathering |
| Kois v. Wisconsin | 408 U.S. 229 (1972) | Nude photographs accompanying and rationally related to a newspaper story are entitled to constitutional free press protection |
| Furman v. Georgia | 408 U.S. 238 (1972) | Death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment; overruled by Gregg v. Georgia |
| Board of Regents v. Roth | 408 U.S. 564 (1972) | Procedural due process in firing non-tenured professor |
| Perry v. Sindermann | 408 U.S. 593 (1972) | First Amendment; de facto professor tenure |
| Gravel v. United States | 408 U.S. 606 (1972) | Protection offered by the Speech or Debate Clause to non-legislative activity |
| Branzburg v. Hayes | 408 U.S. 665 (1972) | First Amendment; grand jury, journalists’ rights |
| Kleindienst v. Mandel | 408 U.S. 753 (1972) | U.S. Attorney General’s power to deny persons’ entry to the United States |
| Gottschalk v. Benson | 409 U.S. 63 (1972) | Computer algorithms not considered patentable subject matter |
| Bronston v. United States | 409 U.S. 352 (1973) | Literally truthful statements under oath cannot be prosecuted as perjury even if intent was to mislead questioner |
| United States v. Dionisio | 410 U.S. 1 (1973) | Compelled production of voice samples and the Fourth and Fifth Amendment. |
| United States v. Mara aka Marasovich | 410 U.S. 19 (1973) | Compelled production of handwriting samples |
| United States v. Glaxo Group Ltd. | 410 U.S. 52 (1973) | When a patent is directly involved in an antitrust violation, the government may challenge the patent’s validity |
| Roe v. Wade | 410 U.S. 113 (1973) | Abortion, due process, privacy |
| Doe v. Bolton | 410 U.S. 179 (1973) | Restrictions on abortion |
| United States v. Florida East Coast Railway Co. | 410 U.S. 224 (1973) | Due process right to a hearing when administrative rules are to be changed |
| San Antonio Independent School Dist. v. Rodriguez | 411 U.S. 1 (1973) | Equal protection, education |
| Mescalero Apache Tribe v. Jones | 411 U.S. 145 (1973) | Indian taxation by states |
| McClanahan v. Arizona State Tax Comm'n | 411 U.S. 164 (1973) | Indian taxation by states |
| United States v. Russell | 411 U.S. 423 (1973) | Active government agent involvement in criminal conspiracy does not constitute entrapment; Rehnquist inadvertently creates possible "outrageous government conduct" standard |
| Frontiero v. Richardson | 411 U.S. 677 (1973) | Equal protection, gender discrimination in military dependency regulation |
| Gagnon v. Scarpelli | 411 U.S. 778 (1973) | Probation hearings and due process |
| McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green | 411 U.S. 793 (1973) | Standard of proof in employment discrimination cases |
| Schneckloth v. Bustamonte | 412 U.S. 218 (1973) | Voluntary searches are permissible without the knowledge to refuse them |
| United States v. Students Challenging Regulatory Agency Procedures (SCRAP) | 412 U.S. 669 (1973) | Standing to sue |
| Miller v. California | 413 U.S. 15 (1973) | Freedom of speech, Miller test for obscenity |
| United States v. 12 200-ft. Reels of Film | 413 U.S. 123 (1973) | Ban on importing obscene material stands but material to be reevaluated under Miller test |
| Pittsburgh Press Co. v. Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations | 413 U.S. 376 (1973) | Freedom of the press, discriminatory commercial speech in classified advertising |
| Norwood v. Harrison | 413 U.S. 455 (1973) | Equal protection does not require equal state assistance to public and private schools and forbids assistance to private schools that discriminate on the basis of race |
| Broadrick v. Oklahoma | 413 U.S. 601 (1973) | Overbreadth of Oklahoma statute forbidding political activities by state employees |
| Espinoza v. Farah Mfg. Co. | 414 U.S. 86 (1973) | Employers can refuse to hire foreign citizens without violating their civil rights |
| North Dakota State Board of Pharmacy v. Snyder's Drug Stores, Inc. | 414 U.S. 156 (1973) | Court upholds North Dakota pharmacy ownership statute against substantive due process attack |
| Lau v. Nichols | 414 U.S. 563 (1974) | Foreign-language education and discrimination under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
| Cleveland Board of Education v. LaFleur | 414 U.S. 632 (1974) | Overly restrictive maternity leave regulations in public schools violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| Schlesinger v. Holtzman | 414 U.S. 1316 (1973) | Presidential war power |
| United States v. Matlock | 415 U.S. 164 (1974) | Fourth Amendment, search and seizure, "co-occupant consent rule" |
| Morton v. Ruiz | 415 U.S. 199 (1974) | Administrative law, Bureau of Indian Affairs improperly limited eligibility for general assistance benefits |
| Johnson v. Robison | 415 U.S. 361 (1974) | Different benefits for combat veterans and conscientious objectors does not violate equal protection or the free exercise clause |
| Edelman v. Jordan | 415 U.S. 651 (1974) | Eleventh Amendment and disability payments |
| Storer v. Brown | 415 U.S. 724 (1974) | Political campaign laws |
| Village of Belle Terre v. Boraas | 416 U.S. 1 (1974) | Upholding a zoning ordinance which prevented multiple unrelated people from living together |
| DeFunis v. Odegaard | 416 U.S. 312 (1974) | Mootness |
| Bob Jones University v. Simon | 416 U.S. 725 (1974) | A private university, notified by the IRS, about a new policy of denying tax-exempt status for private schools with racially discriminatory admissions policies. Petitioner sued for injunctive relief to prevent revocation |
| Geduldig v. Aiello | 417 U.S. 484 (1974) | Denial of benefits for work loss resulting from normal pregnancy does not violate the Equal Protection Clause |
| Morton v. Mancari | 417 U.S. 535 (1974) | Hiring preferences given by Congress to Native Americans at the Bureau of Indian Affairs are not violative of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment. |
| Commissioner v. Idaho Power Co. | 418 U.S. 1 (1974) | Income tax, capitalization of costs related to acquisition of capital assets |
| Jenkins v. Georgia | 418 U.S. 153 (1974) | Obscenity; motion picture Carnal Knowledge |
| Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo | 418 U.S. 241 (1974) | Freedom of speech |
| Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. | 418 U.S. 323 (1974) | First Amendment and defamation—narrowing New York Times v. Sullivan |
| United States v. Nixon | 418 U.S. 683 (1974) | Judicial review, executive privilege, separation of powers |
| Milliken v. Bradley | 418 U.S. 717 (1974) | Segregation, busing |
| Taylor v. Louisiana | 419 U.S. 522 (1975) | Women cannot be excluded from a jury pool, overturning Hoyt v. Florida |
| Goss v. Lopez | 419 U.S. 565 (1974) | Due process in suspending a student from school |
| NLRB v. J. Weingarten, Inc. | 420 U.S. 251 (1975) | The Weingarten rights—rights of union members facing disciplinary proceedings |
| Lefkowitz v. Newsome | 420 U.S. 283 (1975) | Guilty pleas in state court and federal habeas corpus proceeding |
| United States v. Feola | 420 U.S. 671 (1975) | Mens rea requirement for conspiracy is no greater than that for the substantive crime |
| Schlesinger v. Councilman | 420 U.S. 738 (1975) | Scope and jurisdiction of courts martial |
| Stanton v. Stanton | 421 U.S. 7 (1975) | Different ages of majority in the context of child support did not pass rational basis review regarding equal protection |
| Dunlop v. Bachowski | 421 U.S. 560 (1975) | Judicial power and judicial review |
| United States v. Park | 421 U.S. 658 (1975) | Criminal liability of chief executive officer of a corporation for the misdeeds of the company |
| Blue Chip Stamps v. Manor Drug Stores | 421 U.S. 723 (1975) | Private damages actions under Rule 10b-5 is confined to actual purchasers or sellers of securities |
| Bigelow v. Virginia | 421 U.S. 809 (1975) | First Amendment and commercial speech |
| Cort v. Ash | 422 U.S. 66 (1975) | Election law, implied cause of action |
| Erznoznik v. City of Jacksonville | 422 U.S. 205 (1975) | City ordinance prohibiting the showing of films containing nudity by a drive-in theater violated First Amendment |
| City of Richmond v. United States | 422 U.S. 358 (1975) | Limited Richmond, Virginia's right to annex land from surrounding counties |
| Warth v. Seldin | 422 U.S. 490 (1975) | Law of standing |
| United States v. Peltier | 422 U.S. 531 (1975) | Exclusionary Rule Not Applicable when officer relied on statute subsequently ruled unconstitutional |
| O'Connor v. Donaldson | 422 U.S. 563 (1975) | Institutionalization of a non-dangerous mentally ill person |
| Faretta v. California | 422 U.S. 806 (1975) | Criminal defendants have the constitutional right to refuse counsel |
| United States v. Brignoni-Ponce | 422 U.S. 873 (1975) | The Fourth Amendment requires reasonable suspicion for border patrol agents to stop vehicles near the border and ask about citizenship and immigration status; apparent Mexican ancestry does not qualify |
| Rose v. Locke | 423 U.S. 48 (1975) | Vagueness of a law against cunnilingus |
| Rizzo v. Goode | 423 U.S. 362 (1976) | Federalism and injunctions against city officials |
| Buckley v. Valeo | 424 U.S. 1 (1976) | First Amendment and campaign finance reform |
| Mathews v. Eldridge | 424 U.S. 319 (1976) | Procedural due process for termination of Social Security benefits |
| Imbler v. Pachtman | 424 U.S. 409 (1976) | Immunity of prosecutors when acting within their official capacity |
| Time, Inc. v. Firestone | 424 U.S. 448 (1976) | Rights of the media and public figures in defamation suits |
| Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States | 424 U.S. 800 (1976) | Abstention doctrine |
| Dann v. Johnston | 425 U.S. 219 (1976) | Early case on the patentability of the business method patent |
| Hills v. Gautreaux | 425 U.S. 284 (1976) | Fifth Amendment and Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
| United States v. Miller (1976) | 425 U.S. 435 (1976) | Fourth Amendment regarding financial information |
| Hampton v. United States | 425 U.S. 484 (1976) | Entrapment and drug distribution |
| Estelle v. Williams | 425 U.S. 501 (1976) | Trying a criminal defendant while he is clad in prison garb violates due process |
| Virginia State Pharmacy Board v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council | 425 U.S. 748 (1976) | Commercial speech—advertising prescription drug prices |
| Washington v. Davis | 426 U.S. 229 (1976) | Equal protection |
| Bryan v. Itasca County | 426 U.S. 373 (1976) | State taxation of Indians |
| TSC Industries, Inc. v. Northway, Inc. | 426 U.S. 438 (1976) | Materiality of false or misleading statements in proxy statements under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 |
| Kleppe v. New Mexico | 426 U.S. 529 (1976) | Protection of animals on land held by the Bureau of Land Management |
| Doyle v. Ohio | 426 U.S. 610 (1976) | Impeaching a defendant with his silence in response to the warnings required by Miranda v. Arizona violates the Fifth Amendment |
| Serbian Orthodox Diocese v. Milivojevich | 426 U.S. 696 (1976) | Judicial determination of internal disputes of church governance violates the Establishment Clause |
| Hughes v. Alexandria Scrap Corp. | 426 U.S. 794 (1976) | "Market participant exception" to the Dormant Commerce Clause |
| National League of Cities v. Usery | 426 U.S. 833 (1976) | Tenth Amendment sufficient to invalidate federal Fair Labor Standards Act; overruled by Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority |
| Young v. American Mini Theatres | 427 U.S. 50 (1976) | Upholding Detroit's ordinance regulating location of adult-oriented businesses |
| Runyon v. McCrary | 427 U.S. 160 (1976) | Race discrimination in private school admissions under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 |
| New Orleans v. Dukes | 427 U.S. 297 (1976) | Equal protection does not limit a state's regulatory power regarding grandfather clauses |
| Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer | 427 U.S. 445 (1976) | Limitations imposed by the Eleventh Amendment on damages paid by states under Title VII |
| Nebraska Press Association v. Stuart | 427 U.S. 529 (1976) | Standards for regulating publicity in advance of a criminal trial |
| Planned Parenthood of Central Missouri v. Danforth | 428 U.S. 52 (1976) | Constitutionality of various abortion regulations; the first such challenge after Roe v. Wade |
| Gregg v. Georgia | 428 U.S. 153 (1976) | Capital punishment does not per se violate the Eighth Amendment |
| Woodson v. North Carolina | 428 U.S. 280 (1976) | Mandatory death penalties and capital punishment |
| South Dakota v. Opperman | 428 U.S. 364 (1976) | Searching an impounded vehicle is permissible under the Fourth Amendment |
| United States v. Janis | 428 U.S. 433 (1976) | Exclusionary rule does not apply in civil forfeiture proceedings |
| Stone v. Powell | 428 U.S. 465 (1976) | Violations of the exclusionary rule may not be asserted in federal habeas corpus proceedings |
| United States v. Martinez-Fuerte | 428 U.S. 543 (1976) | Routine stops of vehicles entering the United States made by the Border Patrol do not violate the Fourth Amendment |
| Estelle v. Gamble | 429 U.S. 97 (1976) | Deliberate indifference to prisoner medical needs is required to make out a violation of the Eighth Amendment |
| Craig v. Boren | 429 U.S. 190 (1976) | Sex discrimination in drinking ages |
| Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Corp. | 429 U.S. 252 (1977) | Discriminatory intent required to make out a violation of the Equal Protection Clause |
| Mt. Healthy City School District Board Of Education v. Doyle | 429 U.S. 274 (1977) | School districts are not arms of the state and cannot claim sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment; First Amendment rights of public employees subject to adverse employment action possibly related to protected expression. |
| Whalen v. Roe | 429 U.S. 589 (1977) | The New York State Controlled Substance Act's requirement that doctors send a copy of prescriptions to the state department of health did not violate privacy rights |
| Califano v. Goldfarb | 430 U.S. 199 (1977) | Differing Social Security benefits for widows and widowers violates equal protection |
| Complete Auto Transit, Inc. v. Brady | 430 U.S. 274 (1977) | Constitutional requirements for imposing state business privilege taxes on out-of-state corporations |
| Brewer v. Williams | 430 U.S. 387 (1977) | Sixth Amendment requires criminal defendants to have counsel during police interrogation conducted after indictment |
| Ingraham v. Wright | 430 U.S. 651 (1977) | Corporal punishment of public school students |
| Wooley v. Maynard | 430 U.S. 705 (1977) | State cannot compel citizens to display the state motto upon their vehicle license plates |
| Bounds v. Smith | 430 U.S. 817 (1977) | Right of prisoners to access the courts requires prisons to furnish legal assistance |
| Linmark Associates, Inc., v. Township of Willingboro | 431 U.S. 85 (1977) | Municipality's ban on real estate signs unconstitutionally inhibited commercial speech |
| Abood v. Detroit Board of Education | 431 U.S. 209 (1977) | Compelling non-union members to support union political activities violates the First Amendment |
| Moore v. City of East Cleveland | 431 U.S. 494 (1977) | Zoning ordinances forbidding extended families to live in the same house violate due process |
| Carey v. Population Services International | 431 U.S. 678 (1977) | Availability of contraceptives to girls under the age of 16 |
| National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie | 432 U.S. 43 (1977) | Procedure to be afforded those denied the right to march |
| Hunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising Commission | 432 U.S. 333 (1977) | Dormant Commerce Clause |
| Beal v. Doe | 432 U.S. 438 (1977) | Right of a state to restrict use of federal funds for abortion |
| United States v. Chadwick | 433 U.S. 1 (1977) | Warrantless search of double-locked luggage just placed in the trunk of a parked vehicle is not justified under the automobile exception to the Fourth Amendment |
| Shaffer v. Heitner | 433 U.S. 186 (1977) | Quasi in rem jurisdiction and minimum contacts |
| Bates v. State Bar of Arizona | 433 U.S. 350 (1977) | First Amendment constraints on advertising by lawyers |
| Nixon v. Administrator of General Services | 433 U.S. 425 (1977) | Papers of President Nixon |
| Zacchini v. Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Co. | 433 U.S. 562 (1977) | First Amendment limitations on suits for invasion of privacy |
| Coker v. Georgia | 433 U.S. 584 (1977) | death penalty for rape unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment |
| Commissioner v. Kowalski | 433 U.S. 77 (1977) | Taxation of meals furnished by an employer. [1]In this case, the Court interpreted Internal Revenue Code §119(a)-(b)(4) and (d) and Treas. Reg. §1.119-1 |
| Pennsylvania v. Mimms | 434 U.S. 106 (1977) | Applying Terry v. Ohio to car passengers |
| Moore v. Illinois | 434 U.S. 220 (1977) | Sixth Amendment requires a criminal defendant to counsel at a lineup conducted after being indicted |
| Browder v. Director, Department of Corrections | 434 U.S. 257 (1978) | Federal courts of appeals lack jurisdiction to hear untimely filed appeals |
| Pfizer, Inc. v. Government of India | 434 U.S. 308 (1978) | Foreign nations, who may sue in federal court, may also obtain triple damages for violations of the Clayton Act |
| Bordenkircher v. Hayes | 434 U.S. 357 (1978) | Prosecutors may threaten defendants with more serious charges in order to induce a guilty plea |
| Zablocki v. Redhail | 434 U.S. 374 (1978) | Marriage as a fundamental right |
| Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe | 435 U.S. 191 (1978) | Indian tribal courts do not have inherent criminal jurisdiction to try and to punish non-Indians |
| Ballew v. Georgia | 435 U.S. 223 (1978) | Juries in criminal trials may not have fewer than six members |
| Lakeside v. Oregon | 435 U.S. 333 (1978) | Jury instructions regarding the right against self-incrimination and refusal to testify |
| Stump v. Sparkman | 435 U.S. 349 (1978) | Judicial immunity |
| Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. | 435 U.S. 519 (1978) | Judicial deference to government agencies |
| Frank Lyon Co. v. United States | 435 U.S. 561 (1978) | Ownership of realty in sale-leaseback for tax deduction for depreciation purposes. |
| McDaniel v. Paty | 435 U.S. 618 (1978) | Qualification of ministers to hold political office |
| Elkins v. Moreno | 435 U.S. 647 (1978) | In-state tuition at state universities for non-citizen students |
| First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti | 435 U.S. 765 (1978) | First Amendment and corporate political contributions |
| Landmark Communications, Inc. v. Virginia | 435 U.S. 829 (1978) | Press freedom in judicial discipline proceedings |
| Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez | 436 U.S. 49 (1978) | Sovereign immunity of Indian tribes |
| Flagg Bros., Inc. v. Brooks | 436 U.S. 149 (1978) | Upholding section of New York Uniform Commercial Code permitting repossession of goods by warehouse |
| Baldwin v. Fish and Game Commission of Montana | 436 U.S. 371 (1978) | Affirmed the right of the state of Montana to charge higher fees for out-of-state elk hunters |
| Taylor v. Kentucky | 436 U.S. 378 (1978) | Instructing the jury in a criminal trial on the presumption of innocence and the meaning of proof beyond a reasonable doubt |
| Ohralik v. Ohio State Bar Association | 436 U.S. 447 (1978) | State regulation of in-person solicitation of clients by lawyers |
| Zurcher v. Stanford Daily | 436 U.S. 547 (1978) | Standards for issuing search warrants to third parties; special First Amendment protections for the press in keeping evidence of possible crimes |
| Monell v. Department of Social Services | 436 U.S. 658 (1978) | Liability of municipal officials for violations of constitutional rights; they are not liable for merely employing the person who violated the person's rights, and do not enjoy absolute immunity for their actions |
| Exxon Corp. v. Governor of Maryland | 437 U.S. 117 (1978) | Dormant Commerce Clause and state petroleum regulation |
| Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill | 437 U.S. 153 (1978) | Interpretation of the Endangered Species Act |
| Owen Equipment & Erection Co. v. Kroger | 437 U.S. 365 (1978) | Joinder and diversity jurisdiction |
| Mincey v. Arizona | 437 U.S. 385 (1978) | Fourth Amendment does not provide a "murder scene exception" to the warrant-and-probable-cause requirement |
| Parker v. Flook | 437 U.S. 584 (1978) | Algorithms and patent law |
| City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey | 437 U.S. 617 (1978) | Dormant Commerce Clause prohibits banning importation of trash into a state |
| United States v. John (1978) | 437 U.S. 634 (1978) | Federal government has exclusive jurisdiction under Major Crimes Act for serious offenses committed on an Indian reservation |
| Duke Power Co. v. Carolina Environmental Study Group | 438 U.S. 59 (1978) | Constitutionality of Price-Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act |
| Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City | 438 U.S. 104 (1978) | Substantive due process, taking clause, landmarks preservation |
| Franks v. Delaware | 438 U.S. 154 (1978) | Challenging false statements made in support of issuing a search warrant |
| Regents of the University of California v. Bakke | 438 U.S. 265 (1978) | Racial discrimination, affirmative action |
| Lockett v. Ohio | 438 U.S. 586 (1978) | Mitigating evidence required by the Eighth Amendment in capital sentencing proceedings |
| FCC v. Pacifica Foundation | 438 U.S. 726 (1978) | FCC policing of obscenity |
| Rakas v. Illinois | 439 U.S. 128 (1978) | Asserting the Fourth Amendment rights of third persons |
| Marquette Nat. Bank of Minneapolis v. First of Omaha Service Corp. | 439 U.S. 299 (1978) | State anti-usury laws cannot be enforced against nationally chartered banks located out of state |
| Parklane Hosiery Co, Inc. v. Shore | 439 U.S. 322 (1979) | Preclusion doctrine |
| Colautti v. Franklin | 439 U.S. 379 (1979) | Pennsylvania's Abortion Control Act held void for vagueness |
| Givhan v. Western Line Consolidated School District | 439 U.S. 410 (1979) | First Amendment protects private conversations between public employees and superiors about matters of public concern |
| Washington v. Confederated Bands and Tribes of the Yakima Indian Nation | 439 U.S. 463 (1979) | Public Law 280 allows a state to assume partial jurisdiction over Indian tribes |
| Thor Power Tool Company v. Commissioner | 439 U.S. 522 (1979) | Income tax in the United States; depreciation of a publisher's inventory |
| Hisquierdo v. Hisquierdo | 439 U.S. 572 (1979) | Dividing federal railroad retirement benefits under state community property laws |
| Scott v. Illinois | 440 U.S. 367 (1979) | Sixth Amendment right to counsel applies only to crimes for which the actual penalty is imprisonment |
| Nevada v. Hill | 440 U.S. 410 (1979) | States are not immune from suit in the courts of other states |
| National Labor Relations Board v. Catholic Bishop of Chicago | 440 U.S. 490 (1979) | National Labor Relations Act does not extend to teachers employed by church-operated schools |
| New York City Transit Authority v. Beazer | 440 U.S. 568 (1979) | Civil Rights Act of 1964 and legality of discrimination against methadone users |
| Delaware v. Prouse | 440 U.S. 648 (1979) | Fourth Amendment forbids stopping a motorist to check for a driver's license in the absence of reasonable suspicion to believe the driver has violated a traffic law |
| United States v. Caceres | 440 U.S. 741 (1979) | Fourth Amendment does not require exclusion of evidence seized in violation of governmental regulation |
| Burch v. Louisiana | 441 U.S. 130 (1979) | At a criminal trial, a six-member trial must be unanimous |
| Caban v. Mohammed | 441 U.S. 380 (1979) | New York law allowing an unwed mother, but not an unwed father, a veto over adoption of their child violates the Equal Protection Clause |
| Addington v. Texas | 441 U.S. 418 (1979) | Involuntarily committing a person to a mental hospital requires a clear and convincing standard of proof |
| United States v. 564.54 Acres of Land | 441 U.S. 506 (1979) | Takings Clause only requires payment of fair market value to landowner |
| Bell v. Wolfish | 441 U.S. 520 (1979) | Rights of accused persons being held in prison pending trial |
| Cannon v. University of Chicago | 441 U.S. 677 (1979) | Gender discrimination, implied cause of action |
| Greenholtz v. Inmates of the Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex | 442 U.S. 1 (1979) | Due process liberty interest in parole |
| Personnel Administrator of Massachusetts v. Feeney | 442 U.S. 256 (1979) | Government employment preferences for veterans do not constitute sex discrimination |
| Torres v. Puerto Rico | 442 U.S. 465 (1979) | Fourth Amendment applies to Puerto Rico |
| Sandstrom v. Montana | 442 U.S. 510 (1979) | Instructing the jury on the burden of proof in criminal trials |
| Wilson v. Omaha Tribe | 442 U.S. 653 (1979) | Federal law governs an Indian tribe's right of possession to land |
| Califano v. Yamasaki | 442 U.S. 682 (1979) | Procedural due process and the Social Security Act |
| Fare v. Michael C. | 442 U.S. 707 (1979) | Invocation of the Miranda rights by asking for a probation officer |
| Smith v. Maryland | 442 U.S. 735 (1979) | Leaves call detail records outside the protection of the Fourth Amendment |
| Arkansas v. Sanders | 442 U.S. 753 (1979) | Absent exigency, the warrantless search of personal luggage merely because it was located in an automobile lawfully stopped by the police is not justified under the automobile exception to the Fourth Amendment |
| United Steel Workers of America v. Weber | 443 U.S. 193 (1979) | Regarding affirmative action, reverse discrimination |
| Gannett Co. v. DePasquale | 443 U.S. 368 (1979) | Standing of the press to assert violations of the right to a public trial |
| Bellotti v. Baird | 443 U.S. 622 (1979) | Parental notification requirements for abortion are constitutional with a judicial bypass provision |
| Ybarra v. Illinois | 444 U.S. 85 (1979) | A person's mere presence at a place for which the police have a warrant to search does not allow the police to search that person |
| Goldwater v. Carter | 444 U.S. 996 (1979) | Justiciability, political question doctrine |
| Vance v. Terrazas | 444 U.S. 252 (1980) | A U.S. citizen cannot have her citizenship taken away without proof, by a preponderance of evidence, that he or she acted with an intention to relinquish that citizenship |
| World-Wide Volkswagen Corp v. Woodson | 444 U.S. 286 (1980) | Personal jurisdiction, strict liability |
| Village of Schaumburg v. Citizens for a Better Environment | 444 U.S. 620 (1980) | First Amendment protection for door-to-door soliciting |
| Trammel v. United States | 445 U.S. 40 (1980) | Marital privilege under the Federal Rules of Evidence |
| Rummel v. Estelle | 445 U.S. 263 (1980) | Life in prison with possibility of parole is not cruel and unusual punishment for a habitual offender convicted of passing bad checks |
| Vitek v. Jones | 445 U.S. 380 (1980) | Due process liberty interest in forcible commitment to a mental hospital |
| Payton v. New York | 445 U.S. 573 (1980) | Fourth Amendment prohibits warrantless entry into a home to effect a routine felony arrest |
| Owen v. City of Independence | 445 U.S. 622 (1980) | Municipal liability under the Civil Rights Act |
| Mobile v. Bolden | 446 U.S. 55 (1980) | At-Large voting system and the Fifteenth Amendment |
| Rhode Island v. Innis | 446 U.S. 291 (1980) | Meaning of "interrogation" under Miranda v. Arizona |
| Cuyler v. Sullivan | 446 U.S. 335 (1980) | Criminal defendant's right to counsel not saddled by a conflict of interest |
| Godfrey v. Georgia | 446 U.S. 420 (1980) | Eighth Amendment overbreadth of an aggravating circumstance required for imposing the death penalty |
| United States V. Mendenhall | 446 U.S. 544 (1980) | Police may obtain consent to detain a person and search them under the Fourth Amendment |
| Walker v. Armco Steel Corp. | 446 U.S. 740 (1980) | Erie Doctrine, state statute of limitations vs. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure |
| Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins | 447 U.S. 74 (1980) | Federalism, freedom of speech |
| Jenkins v. Anderson | 447 U.S. 231 (1980) | Criminal defendant's silence prior to arrest may be held against him in court |
| Agins v. City of Tiburon | 447 U.S. 255 (1980) | Zoning and regulatory takings |
| Diamond v. Chakrabarty | 447 U.S. 303 (1980) | Patentability of genetically modified organisms |
| Consolidated Edison Co. v. Public Service Commission | 447 U.S. 530 (1980) | Freedom of speech (companies including information inserts with bills) |
| Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. v. Public Service Commission | 447 U.S. 557 (1980) | Commercial speech, energy company advertising |
| Beck v. Alabama | 447 U.S. 625 (1980) | Lesser-included instructions in capital murder cases |
| United States v. Raddatz | 447 U.S. 667 (1980) | Federal district court review of determinations by federal magistrate judges |
| United States v. Payner | 447 U.S. 727 (1980) | Court's supervisory power does not allow application of exclusionary rule even where third party's Fourth Amendment rights were clearly violated |
| Maine v. Thiboutot | 448 U.S. 1 (1980) | 42 U.S.C. § 1983 allows suits for violations of federal statutory law |
| Adams v. Texas | 448 U.S. 38 (1980) | Juror oaths regarding factual deliberations in capital cases |
| Ohio v. Roberts | 448 U.S. 56 (1980) | Hearsay is admissible under the Sixth Amendment if it bears particular guarantees of trustworthiness; overruled by Crawford v. Washington |
| White Mountain Apache Tribe v. Bracker | 448 U.S. 136 (1980) | State is not allowed to tax a non-Indian contractor who works exclusively on a reservation |
| Harris v. McRae | 448 U.S. 297 (1980) | States not required to fund abortions |
| United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians | 448 U.S. 371 (1980) | Seizure of Native American lands |
| Fullilove v. Klutznick | 448 U.S. 448 (1980) | Equal protection, government contract set-aside for minority-owned businesses |
| Industrial Union Department v. American Petroleum Institute | 448 U.S. 607 (1980) | Administrative law, determining OSHA's powers to regulate toxic chemicals in the workplace |
| Stone v. Graham | 449 U.S. 39 (1980) | Requiring privately funded posting of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms violates the Establishment Clause |
| Upjohn Co. v. United States | 449 U.S. 383 (1981) | Attorney–client privilege |
| Minnesota v. Clover Leaf Creamery Co. | 449 U.S. 456 (1981) | Ban on nonreturnable milk containers under the rational basis test of equal protection |
| Fedorenko v. United States | 449 U.S. 490 (1981) | Revoking the citizenship of a naturalized former concentration camp guard |
| Diamond, Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks v. Diehr et al. | 450 U.S. 175 (1981) | Patentability of machines controlled by computer software |
| H. L. v. Matheson | 450 U.S. 398 (1981) | Upholding parental notification law for minors' abortions |
| Michael M. v. Superior Court of Sonoma County | 450 U.S. 464 (1981) | Sex discrimination in statutory rape laws |
| Kassel v. Consolidated Freightways Corp. | 450 U.S. 662 (1981) | Iowa state restriction on tractor trailer length violated Dormant Commerce Clause |
| Thomas v. Review Board of the Indiana Employment Security Division | 450 U.S. 707 (1981) | religious pacifism and unemployment benefits under the Free Exercise Clause |
| Estelle v. Smith | 451 U.S. 454 (1981) | Statements taken in violation of the Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights to counsel may not be admitted at a capital sentencing proceeding |
| Edwards v. Arizona | 451 U.S. 477 (1981) | Police may not initiate questioning once a suspect has invoked his rights under Miranda v. Arizona |
| Parratt v. Taylor | 451 U.S. 527 (1981) | Mere negligence does not state a claim for a due process violation under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 |
| Lassiter v. Department of Social Services | 452 U.S. 18 (1981) | Right to counsel in parental termination proceedings |
| Connecticut Board of Pardons v. Dumschat | 452 U.S. 458 (1981) | Due process right to commutation of life sentences |
| Rostker v. Goldberg | 453 U.S. 57 (1981) | Equal Protection Clause, women exempt from Selective Service registration |
| City of Newport v. Fact Concerts, Inc. | 453 U.S. 247 (1981) | Punitive damages against municipalities in suits under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 |
| Haig v. Agee | 453 U.S. 280 (1981) | Power of Executive Branch to revoke passports |
| California v. Prysock | 453 U.S. 355 (1981) | Phrasing of the warnings required by Miranda v. Arizona |
| New York v. Belton | 453 U.S. 454 (1981) | scope of a lawful search incident to the arrest of a passenger in an automobile includes things inside the passenger compartment |
| Metromedia, Inc. v. City of San Diego | 453 U.S. 490 (1981) | Municipal regulation of billboards under the First Amendment |
| Dames & Moore v. Regan | 453 U.S. 654 (1981) | Executive authority over foreign affairs, International Emergency Economic Powers Act |
| Piper Aircraft Co. v. Reyno | 454 U.S. 235 (1981) | Forum non conveniens doctrine |
| Widmar v. Vincent | 454 U.S. 263 (1981) | Use of state university classroom space by religious student groups |
| Polk County v. Dodson | 454 U.S. 312 (1981) | Liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violations of constitutional rights allegedly committed by public defenders |
| Cabell v. Chavez-Salido | 454 U.S. 432 (1982) | Citizenship requirements for probation officers |
| Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State | 454 U.S. 464 (1982) | Standing to sue for alleged violations of the Establishment Clause |
| Community Communications Co. v. City of Boulder | 455 U.S. 40 (1982) | Municipalities may not allow monopolies under home rule and instead must rely on policies enacted at the state level. |
| Eddings v. Oklahoma | 455 U.S. 104 (1982) | Scope of mitigation evidence presented at a sentencing hearing in a capital case required by the Eighth Amendment |
| Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe | 455 U.S. 130 (1982) | Tribal sovereignty, an Indian tribe is authorized to impose a severance tax on non-Indian oil companies drilling on reservation land |
| United States v. Lee | 455 U.S. 252 (1982) | Religious opposition to participation in Social Security |
| Hoffman Estates v. The Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. | 455 U.S. 498 (1982) | Overbreadth doctrine does not apply to commercial speech |
| Rose v. Lundy | 455 U.S. 509 (1982) | Exhaustion requirement in federal habeas proceedings |
| Santosky v. Kramer | 455 U.S. 745 (1982) | Standard of proof in parental termination proceedings must be at least clear and convincing evidence |
| American Society Of Mechanical Engineers v. Hydrolevel Corp. | 456 U.S. 556 (1982) | Non-profit associations are liable for treble damages under the Sherman Antitrust Act due to antitrust violations |
| Oregon v. Kennedy | 456 U.S. 667 (1982) | Double jeopardy protections for retrial after a mistrial is granted |
| United States v. Ross | 456 U.S. 798 (1982) | Acceptable scope of a warrantless search of an automobile that has been legitimately stopped and that the police have probable cause to believe contains contraband |
| Plyler v. Doe | 457 U.S. 202 (1982) | Illegal immigrants and public education |
| Youngberg v. Romeo | 457 U.S. 307 (1982) | Rights of the involuntarily committed and mentally retarded |
| Nixon v. Fitzgerald | 457 U.S. 731 (1982) | Qualified immunity of executive branch officials |
| Harlow v. Fitzgerald | 457 U.S. 800 (1982) | Absolute immunity for executive branch officials |
| Board of Education, Island Trees School District v. Pico | 457 U.S. 853 (1982) | Right to remove "objectionable" books from school libraries |
| Northern Pipeline Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. | 458 U.S. 50 (1982) | Article III of the U.S. Constitution and the Bankruptcy Code |
| Loretto v. Teleprompter Manhattan CATV Corp. | 458 U.S. 419 (1982) | Per se rule of takings clause |
| Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan | 458 U.S. 718 (1982) | Single-sex nursing schools and the Equal Protection Clause |
| New York v. Ferber | 458 U.S. 747 (1982) | States may ban sexual images of minors even where material does not meet existing tests of obscenity |
| Enmund v. Florida | 458 U.S. 782 (1982) | Felony murder and the death penalty |
| United States v. Valenzuela-Bernal | 458 U.S. 858 (1982) | Constitutionality of deporting aliens who might give testimony in criminal alien smuggling prosecutions |
| NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co. | 458 U.S. 886 (1982) | First Amendment protection for boycotts |
| Sporhase v. Nebraska ex rel. Douglas | 458 U.S. 941 (1982) | Nebraska statute forbidding commercial exportation of water violated the Dormant Commerce Clause |
| Larkin v. Grendel's Den, Inc. | 459 U.S. 116 (1982) | Allowing churches to veto nearby liquor licenses violates the Establishment Clause |
| Hewitt v. Helms | 459 U.S. 460 (1983) | Procedural due process protections for prisoners transferred to administrative segregation |
| South Dakota v. Neville | 459 U.S. 553 (1983) | Admitting evidence of refusal to submit to field sobriety tests does not violate the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination |
| Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Constr. Corp. | 460 U.S. 1 (1983) | Colorado River abstention and enforcement of arbitration clauses in diversity |
| Briscoe v. LaHue | 460 U.S. 325 (1983) | Title 42 U.S.C. § 1983 did not authorize a convicted state defendant to assert a claim for damages against a police officer for giving perjured testimony at the defendant's criminal trial |
| District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman | 460 U.S. 462 (1983) | Review of state court decisions by U.S. District Courts |
| Florida v. Royer | 460 U.S. 491 (1983) | Search and seizure of an airline passenger walking through an airport |
| Metropolitan Edison Co. v. People Against Nuclear Energy | 460 U.S. 766 (1983) | Environmental law; psychological effects do not need to be evaluated as part of an Environmental Impact Report |
| Minneapolis Star Tribune Company v. Commissioner | 460 U.S. 575 (1983) | Special taxes on ink and paper violate the First Amendment |
| Anderson v. Celebrezze | 460 U.S. 780 (1983) | Filing deadlines for independent candidates may not be extraordinarily early |
| City of Los Angeles v. Lyons | 461 U.S. 95 (1982) | Standing, requirement of plausible threat of future injury for an injunction to issue |
| Connick v. Myers | 461 U.S. 138 (1983) | Free speech rights of public employees for public speech at work |
| Pacific Gas & Electric v. State Energy Resources Conservation of Development Commission | 461 U.S. 190 (1983) | Preemption, nuclear power |
| Commissioner v. Tufts | 461 U.S. 300 (1983) | Unanimous decision on when a taxpayer sells or disposes of property encumbered by a nonrecourse obligation exceeding the fair market value of the property sold, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue may require him to include in the “amount realized” the outstanding amount of the obligation; the fair market value of the property is irrelevant to this calculation. |
| Kolender v. Lawson | 461 U.S. 352 (1983) | Requiring loiterers or wanderers on the streets to present identification and to account for their presence when requested by a police officer is unconstitutional |
| Heckler v. Campbell | 461 U.S. 458 (1983) | HHS Secretary's power to promulgate guidelines defining disability |
| Regan v. Taxation with Representation of Washington | 461 U.S. 540 (1983) | Restricting 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations from engaging in political activity does not violate the First Amendment |
| Bob Jones University v. United States | 461 U.S. 574 (1983) | Freedom of religion and tax exemptions |
| Illinois v. Gates | 462 U.S. 213 (1983) | Validity of searches conducted pursuant to warrants predicated on an informant's tip |
| City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health | 462 U.S. 416 (1983) | Requiring abortions to be performed in a hospital, restricting abortion to girls over 16, and requiring a doctor to impart certain information before performing an abortion are all unconstitutional |
| United States v. Place | 462 U.S. 696 (1983) | Dog sniff is not a search under the Fourth Amendment |
| INS v. Chadha | 462 U.S. 919 (1983) | Unconstitutionality of the legislative veto |
| Oregon v. Bradshaw | 462 U.S. 1039 (1983) | Protections of Miranda v. Arizona when the suspect reinitiates conversation with the police |
| Bolger v. Youngs Drug Products Corp. | 463 U.S. 60 (1983) | First Amendment, definition of commercial speech |
| Solem v. Helm | 463 U.S. 277 (1983) | Life without parole for passing bad checks is cruel and unusual punishment |
| Jones v. United States | 463 U.S. 354 (1983) | Verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity is sufficiently probative of mental illness and dangerousness to justify involuntary commitment |
| United States v. Sells Engineering, Inc. | 463 U.S. 418 (1983) | Civil Division attorneys can obtain disclosure only by showing particularized need |
| Dirks v. Securities & Exchange Commission | 463 U.S. 646 (1983) | Insider trading, interpretation of Rule 10b-5 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 |
| Marsh v. Chambers | 463 U.S. 783 (1983) | Establishment Clause does not forbid state legislatures from employing chaplains |
| Barefoot v. Estelle | 463 U.S. 880 (1983) | Admissibility of psychiatrist's testimony about a criminal's future dangerousness |
| Michigan v. Long | 463 U.S. 1032 (1983) | “Adequate and independent state ground” |
| Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios (Betamax case) | 464 U.S. 417 (1984) | Copyright, VCR "time-shifting", fair use |
| Southland Corp. v. Keating | 465 U.S. 1 (1984) | Federal Arbitration Act applies to actions in state courts |
| McKaskle v. Wiggins | 465 U.S. 168 (1984) | Standby counsel does not violate criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to present his own case in a criminal trial |
| Grove City College v. Bell | 465 U.S. 555 (1984) | Acquiescence to federal anti-discrimination regulations through acceptance of federal funds |
| Lynch v. Donnelly | 465 U.S. 668 (1984) | Public religious display on private property |
| Calder v. Jones | 465 U.S. 783 (1984) | Minimum contacts for personal jurisdiction based on a libelous publication |
| United Building & Construction Trades Council v. Mayor and Council of Camden | 465 U.S. 208 (1984) | Privileges and Immunities clause |
| Oliver v. United States | 466 U.S. 170 (1984) | Reaffirmed open fields doctrine in a case where the defendant grew marijuana in his field |
| Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Delgado | 466 U.S. 210 (1984) | Fourth Amendment requirements for administrative searches |
| Helicopteros Nacionales de Colombia, S. A. v. Hall | 466 U.S. 408 (1984) | Purchases in the United States by a non-resident corporation are insufficient under the minimum contacts test to establish in personam jurisdiction |
| Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. | 466 U.S. 485 (1984) | Appellate courts may make finding of "actual malice" required for libel claims against public figures by the First Amendment |
| Strickland v. Washington | 466 U.S. 668 (1984) | Standard for ineffective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment |
| Members of the City Council of the City of Los Angeles v. Taxpayers for Vincent | 466 U.S. 789 (1984) | First Amendment regulation of posting of campaign signs |
| Waller v. Georgia | 467 U.S. 39 (1984) | Sixth Amendment right to a public trial |
| South-Central Timber Development, Inc. v. Wunnicke | 467 U.S. 82 (1984) | Market participant exception to the Dormant Commerce Clause |
| United States v. Gouveia | 467 U.S. 180 (1984) | Right to counsel for prisoners under administrative segregation |
| Bernal v. Fainter | 467 U.S. 216 (1984) | Citizenship of notaries public |
| Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff | 467 U.S. 229 (1984) | Land use law, takings to redistribute private property |
| Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Stevic | 467 U.S. 407 (1984) | Aliens must establish a clear probability of persecution to avoid deportation |
| California v. Trombetta | 467 U.S. 479 (1984) | Preservation of breath samples in DUI cases not required under the Due Process Clause |
| New York v. Quarles | 467 U.S. 649 (1984) | Miranda rights |
| Chevron U.S.A. v. Natural Resources Defense Council | 467 U.S. 837 (1984) | Judicial review of the interpretation of statutes by government agencies |
| Clark v. C.C.N.V. | 468 U.S. 288 (1984) | Right to sleep in public parks |
| FCC v. League of Women Voters of California | 468 U.S. 364 (1984) | Revert regulation on "editorializing" by government funded broadcasters |
| Brown v. Hotel and Restaurant Employees | 468 U.S. 491 (1984) | New Jersey Casino Control Act was not preempted by the National Labor Relations Act |
| Roberts v. United States Jaycees | 468 U.S. 609 (1984) | First Amendment freedom of association and excluding women as members of a private club |
| Regan v. Time, Inc. | 468 U.S. 641 (1984) | Artistic depictions of United States currency |
| Allen v. Wright | 468 U.S. 737 (1984) | Standing to sue for executive action alleged to promote racial discrimination by third parties |
| United States v. Leon | 468 U.S. 897 (1984) | Search and seizure, "good faith" exception to exclusionary rule |
| Mills Music, Inc v. Snyder | 469 U.S. 153 (1985) | Assignment of royalties under the Copyright Act |
| New Jersey v. T. L. O. | 469 U.S. 325 (1985) | Search and seizure at a public high school |
| Evitts v. Lucey | 469 U.S. 387 (1985) | Effective assistance of counsel in appeals in criminal cases |
| Wainwright v. Witt | 469 U.S. 412 (1985) | Selection of jurors in death penalty cases |
| United States v. Maine | 469 U.S. 504 (1985) | Long Island is an extension of the mainland and the bordering sounds are therefore under state regulatory control |
| Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority | 469 U.S. 528 (1985) | Application of minimum wage laws to state governments |
| Ake v. Oklahoma | 470 U.S. 68 (1985) | Right of the accused asserting insanity to a state-appointed psychiatrist |
| Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. v. Byrd | 470 U.S. 213 (1985) | Arbitration clauses must be enforced even if bifurcated and inefficient proceedings result |
| Supreme Court of New Hampshire v. Piper | 470 U.S. 274 (1985) | Residency requirements for membership in the state bar |
| Oregon v. Elstad | 470 U.S. 298 (1985) | Applying the exclusionary rule to violations of the Miranda rights |
| Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill | 470 U.S. 532 (1985) | Due process right of public employees to be heard before termination |
| Winston v. Lee | 470 U.S. 753 (1985) | Compelled surgical intrusion into an individual's body for evidence violates suspect's Fourth Amendment rights |
| Heckler v. Chaney | 470 U.S. 821 (1985) | Forcing the Food and Drug Administration to determine whether it is legal to use certain drugs for lethal injection |
| Tennessee v. Garner | 471 U.S. 1 (1985) | Restriction on the use of deadly force as part of the Fleeing felon rule. |
| Board of Trustees of Scarsdale v. McCreary | 471 U.S. 83 (1985) | Establishment of religion issue by displaying a nativity scene on public land |
| Burger King v. Rudzewicz | 471 U.S. 462 (1985) | Personal jurisdiction, "purposeful availment" |
| Harper & Row v. Nation Enterprises | 471 U.S. 539 (1985) | Fair use of copyrighted material |
| Landreth Timber Co. v. Landreth | 471 U.S. 681 (1985) | Securities Act of 1933 and the "sale of business" doctrine |
| Wallace v. Jaffree | 472 U.S. 38 (1985) | School sponsorship of voluntary religious observances |
| Superintendent, Mass. Correctional Institute at Walpole v. Hill | 472 U.S. 445 (1985) | Prison disciplinary decisions to revoke good-time credits must be supported by "some evidence" |
| McDonald v. Smith | 472 U.S. 479 (1985) | Petition Clause of First Amendment does not provide absolute immunity to charges of defamation |
| Brockett v. Spokane Arcades, Inc. | 472 U.S. 491 (1985) | Regulation of adult bookstores |
| Mitchell v. Forsyth | 472 U.S. 511 (1985) | Civil liability for conducting warrantless wiretaps |
| Aspen Skiing Co. v. Aspen Highlands Skiing Corp. | 472 U.S. 585 (1985) | Antitrust and alteration of marketing cooperation agreement |
| Thornton v. Caldor | 472 U.S. 703 (1985) | Constitutionality of Sabbath laws |
| Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. v. Greenmoss Builders, Inc. | 472 U.S. 749 (1985) | First Amendment, libel in credit reporting |
| Dowling v. United States | 473 U.S. 207 (1985) | Copyright infringement as theft |
| Aguilar v. Felton | 473 U.S. 402 (1985) | Using federal funds to pay teachers in parochial schools under the Establishment Clause |
| City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center, Inc. | 473 U.S. 432 (1985) | Equal protection for the mentally disabled |
| United States v. Montoya de Hernandez | 473 U.S. 531 (1985) | Constitutionality of body cavity searches at the border under the Fourth Amendment |
| Thomas v. Union Carbide Agricultural Products Co. | 473 U.S. 568 (1985) | Article III and the arbitration provisions of FIFRA |
| Mitsubishi Motors Corp. v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc. | 473 U.S. 614 (1985) | Private antitrust claims under Sherman Act are arbitrable, even before foreign panel |
| United States v. Bagley | 473 U.S. 667 (1985) | Prosecutors must disclose information useful for impeaching government witnesses under Brady v. Maryland |
| Heath v. Alabama | 474 U.S. 82 (1985) | Double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment does not prevent one state from trying and punishing someone for an act for which he has already been convicted and sentenced by another state |
| Witters v. Washington Department of Services For the Blind | 474 U.S. 481 (1985) | Constitutionality of public aid paid directly to students of Christian colleges |
| Vasquez v. Hillery | 474 U.S. 254 (1986) | Race discrimination in selecting grand juries |
| Cabana v. Bullock | 474 U.S. 376 (1986) | Appellate courts may make the finding required by Enmund v. Florida in the first instance |
| Nix v. Whiteside | 475 U.S. 157 (1986) | Presentation of perjured testimony at a criminal trial; Sixth Amendment right to counsel |
| Fisher v. City of Berkeley | 475 U.S. 260 (1986) | Rent control ordinances and the Sherman Antitrust Act |
| Goldman v. Weinberger | 475 U.S. 503 (1986) | Religious headwear for military personnel under the Establishment Clause |
| Michigan v. Jackson | 475 U.S. 625 (1986) | Suspect confessions and the Sixth Amendment right to counsel |
| Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. v. Hepps | 475 U.S. 767 (1986) | First Amendment constraints on libel actions; private-figure plaintiffs must show falsity of statements |
| Batson v. Kentucky | 476 U.S. 79 (1986) | Peremptory challenge, racial discrimination |
| Poland v. Arizona | 476 U.S. 147 (1986) | Reimposing the death penalty after the underlying murder conviction has been vacated |
| California v. Ciraolo | 476 U.S. 206 (1986) | Naked-eye aerial observation of defendant's backyard by police does not violate the Fourth Amendment |
| Dow Chemical Co. v. United States | 476 U.S. 227 (1986) | Aerial photography of industrial facilities by the EPA does not violate Fourth Amendment--decided same day as Ciraolo |
| Brown-Forman Distillers Corp. v. New York State Liquor Authority | 476 U.S. 573 (1986) | Price controls on alcoholic beverages and the Commerce Clause |
| Bowen v. Roy | 476 U.S. 693 (1986) | Freedom of religion and Social Security numbers |
| Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists | 476 U.S. 747 (1986) | Requiring "informed consent" before an abortion |
| Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson | 477 U.S. 57 (1986) | "Hostile work environment" as sexual harassment |
| McMillan v. Pennsylvania | 477 U.S. 79 (1986) | Mandatory minimum sentences are not elements of crimes subject to proof beyond a reasonable doubt |
| Maine v. Taylor | 477 U.S. 131 (1986) | Exception to Dormant Commerce Clause |
| Anderson v. Liberty Lobby | 477 U.S. 242 (1986) | Standard for summary judgment |
| Celotex Corp. v. Catrett | 477 U.S. 317 (1986) | Standard for summary judgment |
| Ford v. Wainwright | 477 U.S. 399 (1986) | Competence to be executed |
| Press-Enterprise Co. v. Superior Court | 478 U.S. 1 (1986) | First Amendment free press guarantee and the right to a transcript of a preliminary hearing |
| Bowers v. Hardwick | 478 U.S. 186 (1986) | Sodomy and substantive due process; overruled by Lawrence v. Texas (2003) |
| Posadas de Puerto Rico Associates v. Tourism Company of Puerto Rico | 478 U.S. 328 (1986) | Central Hudson test and First Amendment commercial speech |
| Allen v. Illinois | 478 U.S. 364 (1986) | Statements made in civil commitment proceedings for sex offenders are not subject to the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination |
| Bethel School District v. Fraser | 478 U.S. 675 (1986) | Censorship of obscene speech at a school assembly |
| Bowsher v. Synar | 478 U.S. 714 (1986) | Gramm–Rudman–Hollings Balanced Budget Act, office of Comptroller General, separation of powers |
| Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Thompson | 478 U.S. 804 (1986) | Federal courts cannot claim original jurisdiction for violation of a statute which does not provide a private cause of action |
| Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Schor | 478 U.S. 833 (1986) | Jurisdiction of Article I and Article III tribunals, waiver of Article III jurisdiction |
Rehnquist Court
| Case name | Citation | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Beginning of active duty of Chief Justice William Rehnquist, September 26, 1986 | ||
| Colorado v. Connelly | 479 U.S. 157 (1986) | the involuntary statement of a criminal suspect uttered during a schizophrenic episode but not coerced by the Government is not precluded from admission in court by the due process clause |
| Griffith v. Kentucky | 479 U.S. 314 (1987) | criminal defendants receive the benefit of new constitutional rules announced before their cases are final on direct review |
| Commissioner v. Groetzinger | 479 U.S. 23 (1987) | addressed the issue of what qualifies as being either a trade or business under Section 162(a) of the Internal Revenue Code |
| Maryland v. Garrison | 480 U.S. 79 (1987) | reasonable belief by police in the validity of a search warrant |
| Asahi Metal Industry Co. v. Superior Court of California | 480 U.S. 102 (1987) | due process, personal jurisdiction, Minimum contacts |
| Arizona v. Hicks | 480 U.S. 321 (1987) | probable cause relating to the plain view doctrine under the Fourth Amendment |
| United States v. Dunn | 480 U.S. 294 (1987) | open fields doctrine |
| Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca | 480 U.S. 421 (1987) | Asylum applicants must show "well-founded fear" of persecution to establish their eligibility |
| Keystone Bituminous Coal Ass'n v. Debenedictus | 480 U.S. 470 (1987) | substantive due process, the takings clause of the 5th Amendment |
| O'Connor v. Ortega | 480 U.S. 709 (1987) | Fourth Amendment rights of public employees |
| Tison v. Arizona | 481 U.S. 137 (1987) | Felony murder and the death penalty: death penalty is constitutional for major participants in felonies who exhibit extreme indifference to human life, even if someone else personally kills the victim |
| McCleskey v. Kemp | 481 U.S. 279 (1987) | race discrimination and the death penalty |
| Pennsylvania v. Finley | 481 U.S. 551 (1987) | right to counsel in post-conviction proceedings |
| Saint Francis College v. al-Khazraji | 481 U.S. 604 (1987) | persons of Arabian ancestry may make claims for race discrimination under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 |
| Hodel v. Irving | 481 U.S. 704 (1987) | Fifth Amendment taking of fractional interests in Native American lands |
| United States v. Salerno | 481 U.S. 739 (1987) | upholding Bail Reform Act of 1984 as not violating Due Process or Excessive Bail clauses |
| Turner v. Safley | 482 U.S. 78 (1987) | free speech and marriage rights of prison inmates |
| Shearson/American Express Inc. v. McMahon | 482 U.S. 220 (1987) | Private actions under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 are arbitrable |
| First English Evangelical Lutheran Church v. Los Angeles County | 482 U.S. 304 (1987) | substantive due process, temporary taking |
| O'Lone v. Estate of Shabazz | 482 U.S. 342 (1987) | not a violation of the Free Exercise Clause to deprive an inmate of attending a religious service for "legitimate penological interests." |
| Board of Airport Commissioners of Los Angeles v. Jews for Jesus, Inc. | 482 U.S. 569 (1987) | constitutionality of broad free speech prohibitions |
| Edwards v. Aguillard | 482 U.S. 578 (1987) | constitutionality of mandating teaching of creation science in conjunction with evolution |
| South Dakota v. Dole | 483 U.S. 203 (1987) | use of federal funding to encourage changes in state laws—here, raising the drinking age in all states from 18 to 21 |
| Puerto Rico v. Branstad | 483 U.S. 219 (1987) | Federal court enforcement of extradition of fugitives |
| Rankin v. McPherson | 483 U.S. 378 (1987) | free speech rights of federal employees |
| United States v. Stanley | 483 U.S. 669 (1987) | soldier's tort claim related to Project MKULTRA barred |
| Nollan v. California Coastal Commission | 483 U.S. 825 (1987) | Fifth Amendment takings clause |
| Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier | 484 U.S. 260 (1988) | freedom of speech in secondary school newspapers |
| Hustler Magazine v. Falwell | 485 U.S. 46 (1988) | First Amendment; parody, emotional distress |
| Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Abudu | 485 U.S. 94 (1988) | Federal courts of appeals must review denials of motions to reopen immigration proceedings for abuse of discretion |
| Basic Inc. v. Levinson | 485 U.S. 224 (1988) | interpretation of SEC Rule 10b-5, market price manipulation |
| Lying v. Northwest Indian CPA | 485 U.S. 439 (1988) | religious rights of Native American vs. public interest |
| South Carolina v. Baker | 485 U.S. 505 (1988) | Federal requirement that state and local bonds be issued in registered form did not violate the Tenth Amendment |
| Huddleston v. United States | 485 U.S. 681 (1988) | admissibility of prior "bad acts" under the Federal Rules of Evidence |
| California v. Greenwood | 486 U.S. 35 (1988) | 4th Amendment; even absent a warrant, the search and seizure of garbage left for collection outside the curtilage of a home |
| Maynard v. Cartwright | 486 U.S. 356 (1988) | cruel and unusual punishment, death penalty |
| Webster v. Doe | 486 U.S. 592 (1988) | ability for CIA firings and hirings to be judicially reviewed |
| Schweiker v. Chilicky | 487 U.S. 412 (1988) | no implied cause of action in the Social Security Act |
| Frisby v. Schultz | 487 U.S. 474 (1988) | First Amendment, privacy, restrictions on abortion protests |
| Morrison v. Olson | 487 U.S. 654 (1988) | independent counsel's office |
| Thompson v. Oklahoma | 487 U.S. 815 (1988) | 8th Amendment; cruel and unusual punishment; capital punishment for juveniles under 16 |
| Arizona v. Youngblood | 488 U.S. 51 (1988) | state's failure to preserve evidence in a criminal case, absent bad faith, is not a due process violation |
| Beech Aircraft Corp. v. Rainey | 488 U.S. 153 (1988) | Portions of investigatory reports otherwise admissible under Federal Rule of Evidence 803(8)(C) are not inadmissible merely because they state a conclusion or opinion |
| Mistretta v. United States | 488 U.S. 361 (1989) | United States Sentencing Commission, separation of powers |
| Florida v. Riley | 488 U.S. 445 (1989) | aerial surveillance and the Fourth Amendment |
| City of Richmond v. J.A. Croson Co. | 488 U.S. 469 (1989) | Affirmative action, constitutionality of minority business set-aside programs for municipal contracts |
| Bonito Boats, Inc. v. Thunder Craft Boats, Inc. | 489 U.S. 141 (1989) | state anti-plug molding law struck down under preemption doctrine for interfering with federal patent law |
| DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services | 489 U.S. 189 (1989) | child welfare department's failure to protect a child from known child abuse does not violate due process |
| Teague v. Lane | 489 U.S. 288 (1989) | new constitutional rules do not generally apply retroactively to cases on collateral review |
| Blanton v. North Las Vegas | 489 U.S. 538 (1989) | Jury trial is unnecessary for petty offenses |
| Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives Association | 489 U.S. 602 (1989) | requiring drug tests for railroad employees is not an unreasonable search under the Fourth Amendment |
| National Treasury Employees Union v. Von Raab | 489 U.S. 656 (1989) | requiring drug tests for customs inspectors is not an unreasonable search under the Fourth Amendment |
| Board of Estimate of City of New York v. Morris | 489 U.S. 688 (1989) | New York City Board of Estimate representation scheme was held to violate Equal Protection Clause; local government districts must conform to "one person, one vote" |
| Schmuck v. United States | 489 U.S. 705 (1989) | Scope of mail fraud statute; proper test for lesser included offense |
| United States Department of Justice v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press | 489 U.S. 749 (1989) | FBI rap sheets may not be disclosed to third parties under the Freedom of Information Act |
| Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians v. Holyfield | 490 U.S. 30 (1989) | held that the Indian Child Welfare Act governed the adoption of Indian children, and clarified the jurisdiction of the tribal court |
| Graham v. Connor | 490 U.S. 386 (1989) | standard for claims for violations of the Fourth Amendment |
| Rodriguez de Quijas v. Shearson/American Express Inc. | 490 U.S. 477 (1989) | Private securities fraud claims under Securities Act of 1933 arbitrable; Wilko v. Swan overruled |
| Lauro Lines s.r.l. v. Chasser et al. | 490 U.S. 495 (1989) | interlocutory appeals; forum selection |
| Finley v. United States | 490 U.S. 545 (1989) | pendent party jurisdiction, later overturned by statute |
| Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio | 490 U.S. 642 (1989) | standard of evidence for disparate impact employment discrimination cases |
| Hernandez v. Commissioner | 490 U.S. 680 (1989) | Scientology courses do not qualify as charitable deductions under the Internal Revenue Code |
| Community For Creative Non-Violence v. Reid | 490 U.S. 730 (1989) | copyright, work for hire |
| Martin v. Wilks | 490 U.S. 755 (1989) | civil procedure in employment affirmative action |
| Will v. Michigan Dept. of State Police | 491 U.S. 58 (1989) | States and their officials acting in their official capacity are not persons under Section 1983 |
| Texas v. Johnson | 491 U.S. 397 (1989) | freedom of speech (flag burning) |
| Ward v. Rock Against Racism | 491 U.S. 781 (1989) | freedom of speech, excessive noise |
| Granfinanciera v. Nordberg | 492 U.S. 33 (1989) | Seventh Amendment right to jury trials in bankruptcy proceedings |
| Penry v. Lynaugh | 492 U.S. 302 (1989) | Eighth Amendment permits executing the mentally retarded; overruled by Atkins v. Virginia |
| Stanford v. Kentucky | 492 U.S. 361 (1989) | Eighth Amendment permits executing offenders who were 16 or 17 years old at the time of the offense; overruled by Roper v. Simmons |
| Webster v. Reproductive Health Services | 492 U.S. 490 (1989) | state funding for abortion rights |
| County of Allegheny v. ACLU | 492 U.S. 573 (1989) | holiday displays and state endorsement of religion |
| University of Pennsylvania v. EEOC | 493 U.S. 182 (1990) | peer review privilege not required by Federal Rules of Evidence or First Amendment |
| Commissioner v. Indianapolis Power & Light Co. | 493 U.S. 203 (1990) | customer deposits constituting taxable income to a utility company |
| FW/PBS v. City of Dallas | 493 U.S. 215 (1990) | regulation of "sexually oriented businesses" |
| Tafflin v. Levitt | 493 U.S. 455 (1990) | state court jurisdiction over civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) claims |
| Sullivan v. Zebley | 493 U.S. 521 (1990) | determination of SSI benefits for children |
| Washington v. Harper | 494 U.S. 210 (1990) | permissibility of involuntary treatment of psychotic inmates |
| United States v. Verdugo-Urquidez | 494 U.S. 259 (1990) | search and seizure of nonresident alien in foreign country |
| Chauffeurs, Teamsters, and Helpers Local No. 391 v. Terry | 494 U.S. 558 (1990) | scope of 7th Amendment right to jury trial in civil cases |
| Employment Division v. Smith | 494 U.S. 872 (1990) | religious freedom with respect to drug use |
| Missouri v. Jenkins | 495 U.S. 33 (1990) | power of federal courts to order taxation by state or local governments |
| Osborne v. Ohio | 495 U.S. 103 (1990) | states have the power to ban possession of child pornography without violating the First Amendment |
| Stewart v. Abend | 495 U.S. 207 (1990) | rights of the successor of a copyright interest |
| Grady v. Corbin | 495 U.S. 508 (1990) | double jeopardy and subsequent prosecutions |
| Taylor v. United States | 495 U.S. 575 (1990) | definition of "burglary" under certain sentence enhancement provisions of the federal criminal code |
| Burnham v. Superior Court of California | 495 U.S. 604 (1990) | physical presence as a requirement for personal jurisdiction |
| Duro v. Reina | 495 U.S. 676 (1990) | Indian tribes have no jurisdiction over nonmember Indians |
| Westside School District v. Mergens | 496 U.S. 226 (1990) | Bible study clubs in schools |
| United States v. Eichman | 496 U.S. 310 (1990) | freedom of speech (flag burning) |
| Perpich v. Department of Defense | 496 U.S. 334 (1990) | Congressional powers over U.S. National Guard |
| Eli Lilly & Co. v. Medtronic, Inc. | 496 U.S. 661 (1990) | premarketing activity conducted to gain approval of a device under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act is exempt from a finding of patent infringement |
| Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co. | 497 U.S. 1 (1990) | First Amendment and defamation—no "opinion privilege" |
| Illinois v. Rodriguez | 497 U.S. 177 (1990) | Fourth Amendment, "co-occupant consent rule" |
| Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health | 497 U.S. 261 (1990) | incompetent persons may not refuse medical treatment under the 14th Amendment |
| Hodgson v. Minnesota | 497 U.S. 417 (1990) | requiring parental notification for abortion is constitutional with a judicial bypass provision |
| Walton v. Arizona | 497 U.S. 639 (1990) | Capital punishment and sentencing procedure, partially overruled by Ring v. Arizona |
| Maryland v. Craig | 497 U.S. 836 (1990) | the right of criminal defendants to confront witnesses |
| Perry v. Louisiana | 498 U.S. 38 (1990) | forcibly medicating a death row inmate with a mental disorder in order to make sure he is competent to be executed is impermissible |
| Cheek v. United States | 498 U.S. 192 (1991) | mistake of law is a valid defense to criminal tax evasion because of mens rea |
| Board of Ed. of Oklahoma City Public Schools v. Dowell | 498 U.S. 237 (1991) | case "hasten[ing] the end of federal court desegregation orders. |
| Oklahoma Tax Comm'n v. Citizen Band of Potawatomi Tribe of Okla. | 498 U.S. 505 (1991) | an Indian tribe was not subject to state sales tax for sales to tribal members |
| Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service Co. | 499 U.S. 340 (1991) | minimal quantum of creativity is required for copyright protection |
| Cottage Savings Ass'n v. Commissioner | 499 U.S. 554 (1991) | income tax consequences of mortgage interest exchange, examination of the consequences of the Savings and Loan crisis |
| Carnival Cruise Lines, Inc. v. Shute | 499 U.S. 585 (1991) | enforcement of forum selection clauses |
| County of Riverside v. McLaughlin | 500 U.S. 44 (1991) | suspects arrested without a warrant must be brought into court for a probable cause determination within 48 hours |
| Rust v. Sullivan | 500 U.S. 173 (1991) | government is not required to fund abortion |
| Hernandez v. New York | 500 U.S. 352 (1991) | prosecutor may use peremptory challenge against bilingual Latino jurors based on his doubts about the ability of such jurors to defer to the official translation of Spanish-language testimony |
| Lehnert v. Ferris Faculty Association | 500 U.S. 507 (1991) | unions may compel contributions from nonmembers only for the costs of performing its duties as exclusive bargaining agent |
| California v. Acevedo | 500 U.S. 565 (1991) | police may search a container in a car without a warrant if they have probable cause to believe it contains contraband |
| Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Company | 500 U.S. 614 (1991) | Batson's prohibition on race-based use of peremptory challenges applies in civil trials |
| Connecticut v. Doehr | 501 U.S. 1 (1991) | Connecticut state statute that authorizes prejudgment attachment of real estate without prior notice or hearing violated the 14th Amendment right to due process |
| Toibb v. Radloff | 501 U.S. 157 (1991) | holding that individual debtors may file for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code |
| McNeil v. Wisconsin | 501 U.S. 171 (1991) | differences between the rights secured by the Fifth Amendment and the Sixth Amendment |
| Florida v. Bostick | 501 U.S. 429 (1991) | random bus searches routinely conducted pursuant to passenger's consent |
| Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc. | 501 U.S. 560 (1991) | First Amendment and the restriction of nude dancing |
| Cohen v. Cowles Media Co. | 501 U.S. 663 (1991) | First Amendment, freedom of the press |
| Payne v. Tennessee | 501 U.S. 808 (1991) | admissibility of victim impact statements, stare decisis could be disregarded where fairness to victim's rights
had priority over the demands of consistency in the common law. |
| Peretz v. United States | 501 U.S. 923 (1991) | role of magistrate judges in jury selection in a felony trial |
| Harmelin v. Michigan | 501 U.S. 957 (1991) | life imprisonment for cocaine possession |
| Simon & Schuster v. Crime Victims Board | 502 U.S. 105 (1991) | holding that New York's Son of Sam law violated the First Amendment |
| Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Doherty | 502 U.S. 314 (1992) | U.S. Attorney General has broad discretion to reopen deportation proceedings |
| INS v. Elias-Zacarias | 502 U.S. 478 (1992) | asylum on account of political opinion must be based on the refugee's political opinion |
| Lechmere, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board | 502 U.S. 527 (1992) | employer can exclude nonemployee union organizers from private company property |
| Hudson v. McMillian | 503 U.S. 1 (1992) | excessive force against prison inmates, 8th Amendment |
| INDOPCO, Inc. v. Commissioner | 503 U.S. 79 (1992) | Expenditures incurred by a target corporation in the course of a friendly takeover are nondeductible capital expenditures under the Internal Revenue Code |
| United States v. Felix | 503 U.S. 378 (1992) | conviction of a defendant for a crime and for a conspiracy to commit the same offense does not create double jeopardy |
| United States Department of Commerce v. Montana | 503 U.S. 442 (1992) | formula used for reapportionment |
| Jacobson v. United States | 503 U.S. 540 (1992) | entrapment occurs when government creates predisposition to commit offense where it did not exist |
| Foucha v. Louisiana | 504 U.S. 71 (1992) | criteria for the continued involuntary commitment of an individual who had been found not guilty by reason of insanity |
| Riggins v. Nevada | 504 U.S. 127 (1992) | Forced psychiatric medication during trial violated defendant's rights under Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| Quill Corp. v. North Dakota | 504 U.S. 298 (1992) | Requiring out-of-state mail order vendor to collect use tax unconstitutionally burdened interstate commerce |
| United States v. Thompson-Center Arms Company | 504 U.S. 505 (1992) | taxation of firearms |
| Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife | 504 U.S. 555 (1992) | Standing in a suit to enforce the Endangered Species Act |
| United States v. Alvarez-Machain | 504 U.S. 655 (1992) | application of the Ker-Frisbie doctrine |
| Morgan v. Illinois | 504 U.S. 719 (1992) | A defendant facing the death penalty may challenge for cause a prospective juror who would automatically vote to impose the death penalty in every case |
| Georgia v. McCollum | 505 U.S. 42 (1992) | standard on peremptory challenges from Batson v. Kentucky applied to criminal defendant |
| Gade v. National Solid Wastes Management Association | 505 U.S. 88 (1992) | federal preemption of state labor safety laws |
| Forsyth County, Georgia v. The Nationalist Movement | 505 U.S. 123 (1992) | 1st Amendment protection and police protection |
| New York v. United States | 505 U.S. 144 (1992) | the take title provision of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Amendments Act of 1985 violated the 10th Amendment |
| Wisconsin Department of Revenue v. William Wrigley, Jr., Co. | 505 U.S. 214 (1992) | permissible scope of taxation of out-of-state corporations doing business within a particular state. |
| R. A. V. v. City of St. Paul | 505 U.S. 377 (1992) | fighting words, hate speech |
| Lee v. Weisman | 505 U.S. 577 (1992) | First Amendment, establishment of religion (prayer at high school graduations) |
| Planned Parenthood v. Casey | 505 U.S. 833 (1992) | abortion; reaffirming the "core holding" of Roe v. Wade |
| United States v. Fordice | 505 U.S. 717 (1992) | segregation of colleges and universities |
| Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council | 505 U.S. 1003 (1992) | per se rule of takings clause |
| Soldal v. Cook County | 506 U.S. 56 (1992) | Fourth Amendment protects property as well as privacy interests, even absent a search or an arrest (e.g. eviction) |
| Commissioner v. Soliman | 506 U.S. 168 (1993) | "principal place of business" under the Internal Revenue Code |
| Nixon v. United States | 506 U.S. 224 (1993) | judicial impeachment, political question doctrine |
| Bray v. Alexandria Women's Health Clinic | 506 U.S. 263 (1993) | Civil Rights Act of 1871 could not be used to halt blockades of abortion clinics |
| Herrera v. Collins | 506 U.S. 390 (1993) | claim of actual innocence is not grounds for federal habeas corpus relief |
| Spectrum Sports, Inc. v. McQuillan | 506 U.S. 447 (1993) | quantum of proof required for a claim of attempted monopolization under § 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act |
| Shaw v. Reno | 506 U.S. 630 (1993) | appropriateness of considering race in redistricting |
| Reno v. Flores | 507 U.S. 292 (1993) | procedures for detaining juvenile aliens awaiting deportation |
| Saudi Arabia v. Nelson | 507 U.S. 349 (1993) | jurisdiction in an action based upon a "commercial activity" under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act |
| Cincinnati v. Discovery Network, Inc. | 507 U.S. 410 (1993) | First Amendment protections against restrictions on distributing handbills |
| United States Department of Justice v. Landano | 508 U.S. 165 (1993) | Freedom of Information Act and confidentiality |
| Mertens v. Hewitt Associates | 508 U.S. 248 (1993) | Preemption, non-fiduciary liability under ERISA |
| Wisconsin v. Mitchell | 508 U.S. 476 (1993) | enhanced sentencing for hate crimes and the First Amendment |
| Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah | 508 U.S. 520 (1993) | animal cruelty, freedom of religion |
| Minnesota v. Dickerson | 508 U.S. 366 (1993) | seizure of contraband during stop & frisk |
| Lamb's Chapel v. Center Moriches Union Free School District | 508 U.S. 384 (1993) | access by religious groups to public school facilities |
| South Dakota v. Bourland | 508 U.S. 679 (1993) | an Indian tribes hunting and fishing rights were terminated on land the Federal government acquired for a reservoir |
| Sale v. Haitian Centers Council | 509 U.S. 155 (1993) | illegal immigration |
| Godinez v. Moran | 509 U.S. 389 (1993) | competency standard for pleading guilty or waiving the right to counsel
is the same as the competency standard for standing trial |
| Alexander v. United States | 509 U.S. 544 (1993) | RICO's forfeiture provision does not violate the First Amendment |
| Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals | 509 U.S. 579 (1993) | federal judges as gatekeepers for allowing expert witnesses to testify in trials; see also Daubert Standard |
| Hartford Fire Insurance Co. v. California | 509 U.S. 764 (1993) | application of Sherman Antitrust Act to foreign companies |
| Fogerty v. Fantasy | 510 U.S. 517 (1994) | attorney's fees in copyright litigation |
| Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. | 510 U.S. 569 (1994) | copyright, commercial fair use is possible, parody |
| Oregon Waste Systems, Inc. v. Department of Environmental Quality of Ore. | 511 U.S. 93 (1994) | Commerce Clause |
| J.E.B. v. Alabama ex rel. T.B. | 511 U.S. 127 (1994) | peremptory jury challenges based on sex violate equal protection clause |
| Central Bank of Denver v. First Interstate Bank of Denver | 511 U.S. 164 (1994) | private plaintiffs may not maintain an aiding and abetting lawsuit under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 |
| Landgraf v. USI Film Products | 511 U.S. 244 (1994) | retroactive application of statutory amendments effective while cases are pending in court |
| C&A Carbone, Inc v. Town of Clarkstown | 511 U.S. 383 (1994) | Dormant Commerce Clause |
| Waters v. Churchill | 511 U.S. 661 (1994) | Due process rights of public employees in workplace when alleging violations of First Amendment rights |
| PUD No. 1 of Jefferson County v. Washington Department of Ecology | 511 U.S. 700 (1994) | interpretation of §401 of the Clean Water Act |
| Farmer v. Brennan | 511 U.S. 825 (1994) | civil liability under the Eighth Amendment for rape of a transgender prison inmate |
| Dolan v. City of Tigard | 512 U.S. 374 (1994) | Fifth Amendment takings clause |
| Turner Broadcasting v. Federal Communications Commission | 512 U.S. 622 (1994) | upholding must-carry rules against cable television provider's First Amendment challenge |
| Board of Education of Kiryas Joel Village School District v. Grumet | 512 U.S. 687 (1994) | school district coinciding with religious community |
| Madsen v. Women's Health Center, Inc. | 512 U.S. 753 (1994) | first amendment, restrictions on abortion protests |
| United Mine Workers of America v. Bagwell | 512 U.S. 821 (1994) | constitutional limitations on the contempt powers of courts |
| United States v. Shabani | 513 U.S. 10 (1994) | elements of criminal conspiracy (i.e., requirement for an overt act) |
| United States v. X-Citement Video, Inc. | 513 U.S. 64 (1994) | conviction under federal child pornography laws requires proof that the defendant knew the subjects were minors |
| Schlup v. Delo | 513 U.S. 298 (1995) | Standard of proof required for a habeas corpus petition to reopen a case in light of new evidence of innocence |
| Arizona v. Evans | 514 U.S. 1 (1995) | Exclusionary rule does not require suppressing evidence obtained through good-faith reliance on a search warrant that contains a clerical error |
| Qualitex Co. v. Jacobson Products Co., Inc. | 514 U.S. 159 (1995) | color trademarks are appropriate subject matter under the Lanham Act |
| Plaut v. Spendthrift Farm, Inc. | 514 U.S. 211 (1995) | separation of powers and finality of judgments |
| McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission | 514 U.S. 334 (1995) | anonymous campaign literature under the First Amendment |
| United States v. Lopez | 514 U.S. 549 (1995) | interstate commerce, gun-free school zones |
| U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton | 514 U.S. 779 (1995) | preventing states from enacting term limits to the US House and Senate |
| First Options v. Kaplan | 514 U.S. 938 (1995) | independent judicial review of arbitration clause |
| Adarand Constructors v. Peña | 515 U.S. 200 (1995) | constitutionality of race-based set-asides (strict scrutiny test) |
| Witte v. United States | 515 U.S. 389 (1995) | using "relevant conduct", as defined by the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, at sentencing does not violate double jeopardy principles |
| Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Group of Boston | 515 U.S. 557 (1995) | First Amendment freedom of association as applied to a private parade organizer seeking to exclude a group inconsistent with its stated message |
| Florida Bar v. Went For It, Inc. | 515 U.S. 618 (1995) | under the commercial speech doctrine of the First Amendment, states may forbid lawyers from directly soliciting personal injury cases for short periods of time after an accident or a disaster |
| Vernonia School District 47J v. Acton | 515 U.S. 646 (1995) | constitutionality of public school drug testing; Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board v. Pinnette | 515 U.S. 753 (1995) | display of religious symbols on government property |
| Rosenberger v. University of Virginia | 515 U.S. 819 (1995) | discrimination by state universities against student religious organizations |
| Miller v. Johnson | 515 U.S. 900 (1995) | racial gerrymandering |
| Bailey v. United States | 516 U.S. 137 (1995) | meaning of "use" in federal statute imposing a five-year prison sentence on anyone who "uses" a firearm during or in relation to a drug crime or a crime of violence |
| Lotus Dev. Corp. v. Borland Int'l, Inc. | 516 U.S. 233 (1995) | scope of software copyrights |
| Behrens v. Pelletier | 516 U.S. 299 (1996) | appeal over ruling on qualified immunity |
| Hercules, Inc. v. United States | 516 U.S. 417 (1996) | liability for producing Agent Orange |
| Bennis v. Michigan | 516 U.S. 442 (1996) | held that innocent owner defense is not constitutionally mandated by Fourteenth Amendment Due Process in cases of civil forfeiture |
| Seminole Tribe v. Florida | 517 U.S. 44 (1996) | Article I and the 11th Amendment |
| Markman v. Westview Instruments, Inc. | 517 U.S. 370 (1996) | claim construction of patents |
| 44 Liquormart, Inc. v. State of Rhode Island | 517 U.S. 484 (1996) | restrictions on commercial speech |
| BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore | 517 U.S. 559 (1996) | whether punitive damages are limited by substantive due process; 14th Amendment |
| Smiley v. Citibank | 517 U.S. 735 (1996) | Credit card late fees can be considered interest and thus not subject to regulation by states other than those of bank's location when charged by national banks. |
| Romer v. Evans | 517 U.S. 620 (1996) | equal protection limitation on forbidding elimination of discrimination on the basis of homosexuality |
| Jaffee v. Redmond | 518 U.S. 1 (1996) | federal evidentiary privilege for medical confidentiality |
| Gasperini v. Center For Humanities, Inc. | 518 U.S. 415 (1996) | 7th Amendment, modern interpretation of the Erie doctrine |
| United States v. Virginia | 518 U.S. 515 (1996) | separate but equal gender discrimination |
| Ohio v. Robinette | 519 U.S. 33 (1996) | informing motorists that a traffic stop has ended and the motorist is "free to go" is not required under the Fourth Amendment |
| Caterpillar, Inc. v. Lewis | 519 U.S. 61 (1996) | diversity of citizenship must exist at the time of entry of judgment |
| M.L.B. v. S.L.J. | 519 U.S. 102 (1996) | states must provide transcripts to poor litigants wishing to appeal adverse parental termination decisions |
| Old Chief v. United States | 519 U.S. 172 (1996) | admitting evidence of prior convictions and the danger of "unfair prejudice" under Rule 403 of the Federal Rules of Evidence |
| Schenck v. Pro-Choice Network of Western New York | 519 U.S. 357 (1997) | protesters at abortion clinics |
| Auer v. Robbins | 519 U.S. 452 (1997) | FLSA and overtime pay of police officers |
| Warner-Jenkinson Company, Inc. v. Hilton Davis Chemical Co. | 520 U.S. 17 (1997) | patent law, doctrine of equivalents |
| Clinton v. Jones | 520 U.S. 681 (1997) | Executive privilege and immunity |
| Agostini v. Felton | 521 U.S. 203 (1997) | reexamination of Establishment Clause jurisprudence as it applies schools |
| Kansas v. Hendricks | 521 U.S. 346 (1997) | procedures for involuntary indefinite civil commitment of dangerous persons |
| City of Boerne v. Flores | 521 U.S. 507 (1997) | scope of Congressional enforcement power under § 5 of the 14th Amendment |
| Washington v. Glucksberg | 521 U.S. 702 (1997) | constitutionality of state law forbidding assisted suicide |
| Vacco v. Quill | 521 U.S. 793 (1997) | right to die and assisted suicide |
| Raines v. Byrd | 521 U.S. 811 (1997) | line item veto, legal standing; redirects to Clinton v. City of New York |
| Printz, Sheriff/Coroner, Ravalli County, Montana v. United States | 521 U.S. 898 (1997) | background checks before purchasing handguns |
| Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union | 521 U.S. 844 (1997) | free speech, obscenity, CDA |
| State Oil Co. v. Khan | 522 U.S. 3 (1997) | rule of reason applied to vertical maximum price fixing, overturned Albrecht v. Herald Co. |
| Alaska v. Native Village of Venetie Tribal Government | 522 U.S. 520 (1998) | native rights over tribal lands |
| NCUA v. First National Bank & Trust | 522 U.S. 479 (1998) | intent of Congress w.r.t. the Federal Credit Union Act of 1934 |
| Lexecon Inc. v. Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach | 523 U.S. 26 (1998) | pretrial procedures in multi-district litigation |
| Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services | 523 U.S. 75 (1998) | applicability of sexual harassment laws to same sex harassment |
| Quality King Distributors Inc., v. L'anza Research International Inc. | 523 U.S. 135 (1998) | application of first-sale doctrine of U.S. copyright law to reimported goods |
| Almendarez-Torres v. United States | 523 U.S. 224 (1998) | prior convictions used to enhance a sentence need not be proved to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt |
| Feltner v. Columbia Pictures Television, Inc. | 523 U.S. 340 (1998) | Seventh Amendment right to jury trial in a copyright infringement case |
| Breard v. Greene | 523 U.S. 371 (1998) | criminal defendant could not raise a defense under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations on federal habeas corpus review |
| Miller v. Albright | 523 U.S. 420 (1998) | citizenship of a child born outside the United States to a citizen father and an alien mother |
| Stewart v. Martinez-Villareal | 523 U.S. 637 (1998) | proper timing of a claim under Ford v. Wainwright, regarding competency to be executed, in federal habeas proceedings |
| Kiowa Tribe of Okla. v. Manufacturing Technologies, Inc. | 523 U.S. 751 (1998) | an Indian tribe is entitled to sovereign immunity to contract lawsuits, whether made on or off the reservation |
| County of Sacramento v. Lewis | 523 U.S. 833 (1998) | liability of police under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for causing death during high-speed chases |
| Federal Election Commission v. Akins | 524 U.S. 11 (1998) | standing conferred by statute |
| United States v. Bajakajian | 524 U.S. 321 (1998) | excessive fines |
| Swidler & Berlin v. United States | 524 U.S. 399 (1998) | death of an attorney's client does not terminate the attorney–client privilege |
| Clinton v. City of New York | 524 U.S. 417 (1998) | constitutionality of the Line Item Veto |
| Eastern Enterprises v. Apfel | 524 U.S. 498 (1998) | Substantive Due Process, Economic Liberties |
| National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley | 524 U.S. 569 (1998) | 1st amendment, government funding |
| Bragdon v. Abbott | 524 U.S. 624 (1998) | application of the Americans with Disabilities Act to an asymptomatic HIV patient |
| Marquez v. Screen Actors Guild Inc. | 525 U.S. 33 (1998) | union shop contracts |
| Pfaff v. Wells Electronics, Inc. | 525 U.S. 55 (1998) | on-sale bar of United States patent law |
| Knowles v. Iowa | 525 U.S. 113 (1998) | search subsequent to a traffic citation without consent |
| Department of Commerce et al. v. United States House of Representatives et al. | 525 U.S. 316 (1999) | Census figures adjusted for undercount based on sampling may not be used for Congressional apportionment |
| Holloway v. United States | 526 U.S. 1 (1999) | federal carjacking statute applies to carjacking crimes committed by defendants with the "conditional intent" of harming drivers who resist the highjacker. |
| Federal Republic of Germany v. United States | 526 U.S. 111 (1999) | application of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations to death penalty cases |
| Kumho Tire Co. v. Carmichael | 526 U.S. 137 (1999) | non-scientists as expert witnesses in federal trials |
| Minnesota v. Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians | 526 U.S. 172 (1999) | usufructuary rights of Native Americans on certain lands |
| Jones v. United States | 526 U.S. 227 (1999) | subsections of federal carjacking statute define separate crimes subject to Sixth Amendment jury trial requirement |
| Wyoming v. Houghton | 526 U.S. 295 (1999) | warrantless search of a passenger's container capable of holding the object of a search for which there is probable cause is not justified under the automobile exception to the Fourth Amendment |
| Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Aguirre-Aguirre | 526 U.S. 415 (1999) | application of Chevron deference standard to Board of Immigration Appeals actions |
| Saenz v. Roe | 526 U.S. 489 (1999) | welfare benefits to new state citizens and the right to travel |
| Hunt v. Cromartie | 526 U.S. 541 (1999) | gerrymandering |
| Chicago v. Morales | 527 U.S. 41 (1999) | loitering as gang activity |
| Olmstead v. L.C. | 527 U.S. 581 (1999) | undue institutionalization of mental patients violates Americans With Disabilities Act |
| Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board v. College Savings Bank | 527 U.S. 627 (1999) | sovereign immunity of the States |
| College Savings Bank v. Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board | 527 U.S. 666 (1999) | sovereign immunity of the States |
| Alden v. Maine | 527 U.S. 706 (1999) | sovereign immunity of the States |
| Kimel v. Florida Board of Regents | 528 U.S. 62 (2000) | Congress's enforcement powers under the Fourteenth Amendment do not extend to the abrogation of state sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment where the discrimination is rationally based on age |
| Illinois v. Wardlow | 528 U.S. 119 (2000) | reasonable suspicion for a Terry stop |
| Reno v. Condon | 528 U.S. 141 (2000) | upholding the Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994 against a Tenth Amendment challenge |
| Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services, Inc. | 528 U.S. 167 (2000) | standing, mootness, "voluntary cessation" |
| Nixon v. Shrink Missouri Government PAC | 528 U.S. 377 (2000) | campaign contributions to state political parties |
| Rice v. Cayetano | 528 U.S. 495 (2000) | race-based voting restrictions for state government offices |
| FDA v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. | 529 U.S. 120 (2000) | administrative agency power over an area heavily regulated by Congress |
| Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System v. Southworth | 529 U.S. 217 (2000) | compulsory student fees to support political campus groups; 1st Amendment |
| Christensen v. Harris County | 529 U.S. 576 (2000) | county's policy of requiring that employees schedule time off so that they do not accrue time off was not prohibited by the Fair Labor Standards Act |
| United States v. Morrison | 529 U.S. 598 (2000) | limits of Congress's power under the commerce clause |
| United States v. Playboy Entertainment Group | 529 U.S. 803 (2000) | scrambling of adult material on cable channels; 1st Amendment |
| United States v. Hubbell | 530 U.S. 27 (2000) | criminal charges based on subpeonaed documents |
| Troxel v. Granville | 530 U.S. 57 (2000) | fundamental rights of parents to raise their children, third-party visitation rights |
| Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe | 530 U.S. 290 (2000) | prayer in public schools |
| Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council | 530 U.S. 363 (2000) | federal preemption of state foreign trade regulation |
| Dickerson v. United States | 530 U.S. 428 (2000) | legislative abrogation of Miranda right |
| Apprendi v. New Jersey | 530 U.S. 466 (2000) | Juries must decide all elements of a crime beyond reasonable doubt |
| California Democratic Party v. Jones | 530 U.S. 567 (2000) | freedom of association and political primary elections |
| Boy Scouts of America v. Dale | 530 U.S. 640 (2000) | right of free association, homosexuality |
| Stenberg v. Carhart | 530 U.S. 914 (2000) | "late term" or "partial birth" abortions |
| City of Indianapolis v. Edmond | 531 U.S. 32 (2000) | use of dogs at random traffic stops |
| Eastern Associated Coal Corp. v. Mine Workers | 531 U.S. 57 (2000) | public policy considerations do not require courts to refuse to enforce an arbitration award ordering an employer to reinstate an employee truck driver who twice tested positive for marijuana |
| Bush v. Gore | 531 U.S. 98 (2000) | vote recounts in presidential election, the only court decision to determine the winner of a presidential election |
| Brentwood Academy v. Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Ass’n | 531 U.S. 288 (2001) | expansion of state action to include "public entwinement" |
| Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama v. Garrett | 531 U.S. 356 (2001) | Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity and Equal Protection in a disability case |
| Whitman v. American Trucking Associations, Inc. | 531 U.S. 457 (2001) | determining the scope of the EPA's power to set air quality standards |
| Semtek International Inc. v. Lockheed Martin Corp. | 531 U.S. 497 (2001) | res judicata effect of federal judgments in state court |
| TrafFix Devices, Inc. v. Marketing Displays, Inc. | 532 U.S. 23 (2001) | trademark protection for patented designs |
| Ferguson v. City of Charleston | 532 U.S. 67 (2001) | private hospitals that test pregnant women for drugs without their consent and then turn the results over to the police violate the Fourth Amendment |
| Egelhoff v. Egelhoff | 532 U.S. 141 (2001) | preemption of state law by ERISA |
| Texas v. Cobb | 532 U.S. 162 (2001) | Sixth Amendment right to counsel is "offense specific," it does not necessarily extend to offenses that are "factually related" to those that have actually been charged |
| Easley v. Cromartie | 532 U.S. 234 (2001) | racial discrimination, gerrymandering |
| Alexander v. Sandoval | 532 U.S. 275 (2001) | no private right of action for disparate impact under Title VI of Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
| Atwater v. City of Lago Vista | 532 U.S. 318 (2001) | - |
| C & L Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizen Band Potawatomi Tribe of Okla. | 532 U.S. 411 (2001) | Tribal sovereign immunity, waiver by contract to arbitration |
| Cooper Industries v. Leatherman Tool Group, Inc. | 532 U.S. 424 (2001) | The correct standard of review to use on appeals for excessive punitive damages |
| Rogers v. Tennessee | 532 U.S. 451 (2001) | due process, "year and a day rule" in murder cases |
| United States v. Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative | 532 U.S. 483 (2001) | necessity defense under the Controlled Substances Act for medical use of marijuana |
| Bartnicki v. Vopper | 532 U.S. 514 (2001) | First Amendment and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act |
| PGA Tour, Inc. v. Martin | 532 U.S. 661 (2001) | the Americans with Disabilities Act allows reasonable accommodations of handicaps in professional golf |
| Kyllo v. United States | 533 U.S. 27 (2001) | defining 'search' under the 4th Amendment with respect to heat sensors |
| Good News Club v. Milford Central School | 533 U.S. 98 (2001) | free speech, establishment clause |
| Saucier v. Katz | 533 U.S. 194 (2001) | qualified immunity of a police officer to a civil rights case brought through a Bivens action |
| United States v. Mead Corp. | 533 U.S. 218 (2001) | Court declines to extend Chevron doctrine to U.S. Customs Service decisions |
| Immigration and Naturalization Service v. St. Cyr | 533 U.S. 289 (2001) | The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, and their effect on habeas corpus petitions |
| New York Times Co. v. Tasini | 533 U.S. 483 (2001) | copyright in databases |
| Palazzolo v. Rhode Island | 533 U.S. 606 (2001) | Fifth Amendment takings clause |
| Correctional Services Corp. v. Malesko | 534 U.S. 61 (2001) | civil rights lawsuits against privately run prisons |
| Chickasaw Nation v. United States | 534 U.S. 84 (2001) | Indian tribes are liable for Federal taxes on gambling revenue |
| United States v. Knights | 534 U.S. 112 (2001) | warrantless searches of probationers |
| Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. v. Williams | 534 U.S. 184 (2002) | meaning of the phrase "substantially impairs" under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 |
| Kansas v. Crane | 534 U.S. 407 (2002) | as-applied challenge to Kansas' involuntary indefinite civil commitment of dangerous persons, different result from Kansas v. Hendricks |
| Owasso Independent School District v. Falvo | 534 U.S. 426 (2001) | peer grading does not violate the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act |
| Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition | 535 U.S. 234 (2002) | First Amendment protection for simulated child pornography |
| Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council, Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency | 535 U.S. 302 (2002) | substantive due process, takings clause |
| City of Los Angeles v. Alameda Books | 535 U.S. 425 (2002) | zoning of adult bookstores |
| Festo Corp. v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Co. | 535 U.S. 722 (2002) | prosecution history estoppel |
| McKune v. Lile | 536 U.S. 24 (2002) | mandatory treatment for imprisoned sex offenders does not violate the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination |
| Watchtower Society v. Village of Stratton | 536 U.S. 150 (2002) | door-to-door religious advocacy and the First Amendment |
| Gonzaga University v. Doe | 536 U.S. 273 (2002) | Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act does not create a right which is enforceable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 |
| Atkins v. Virginia | 536 U.S. 304 (2002) | imposing the death penalty on the mentally retarded; overruling Penry v. Lynaugh |
| Rush Prudential HMO, Inc. v. Moran | 536 U.S. 355 (2002) | no preemption of Illinois insurance statute under ERISA |
| Utah v. Evans | 536 U.S. 452 (2002) | use of statistical sampling in the decennial census |
| Harris v. United States | 536 U.S. 545 (2002) | Sixth Amendment does not require a jury determination of facts necessary to support the minimum punishment for using or carrying a firearm during or in relation to a drug crime or a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924 |
| Ring v. Arizona | 536 U.S. 584 (2002) | Sixth Amendment requires that aggravating factors necessary for eligibility for a death sentence must be found by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt; overruling Walton v. Arizona in part |
| Zelman v. Simmons-Harris | 536 U.S. 639 (2002) | constitutionality of school voucher program |
| Hope v. Pelzer | 536 U.S. 730 (2002) | use of the hitching post in prisons is prohibited by the Eighth Amendment |
| Republican Party of Minnesota v. White | 536 U.S. 765 (2002) | election of state judges, freedom of speech |
| Board of Education of Independent School District No. 92 of Pottawatomie County v. Earls | 536 U.S. 822 (2002) | constitutionality of drug testing of high school students who participate in competitive interscholastic activities |
| Sattazahn v. Pennsylvania | 537 U.S. 101 (2003) | the Double Jeopardy Clause does not forbid seeking the death penalty after an acquittal on first-degree murder charges |
| Barnhart v. Peabody Coal Co. | 537 U.S. 149 (2003) | Social Security benefit assignment for coal industry workers |
| Eldred v. Ashcroft | 537 U.S. 186 (2003) | extending the duration of the term of copyright under U.S. law |
| Scheidler v. National Organization for Women | 537 U.S. 393 (2003) | applying RICO to activities of abortion clinic protesters |
| Moseley v. V Secret Catalogue, Inc. | 537 U.S. 418 (2003) | claims of trademark dilution require proof of actual dilution |
| United States v. White Mountain Apache Tribe | 537 U.S. 465 (2003) | the Federal government has a duty to maintain land held in trust for an Indian tribe |
| United States v. Navajo Nation | 537 U.S. 488 (2003) | compensation for modification a lease of mining rights to land on an Indian reservation |
| Connecticut Dept. of Public Safety v. Doe | 538 U.S. 1 (2003) | holding that Connecticut's sex offender registration statute did not violate due process clause |
| Ewing v. California | 538 U.S. 11 (2003) | California's Three strikes law is not cruel and unusual punishment |
| Lockyer v. Andrade | 538 U.S. 63 (2003) | California's Three strikes law is not cruel and unusual punishment |
| Smith v. Doe | 538 U.S. 84 (2003) | retroactive application of sex offender registry program is not an ex post facto law |
| Virginia v. Black | 538 U.S. 343 (2003) | constitutionality of laws forbidding cross burning for purposes of intimidation |
| State Farm v. Campbell | 538 U.S. 408 (2003) | due process limits on punitive damages |
| Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs | 538 U.S. 721 (2003) | Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 validly abrogated state sovereign immunity |
| Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. | 539 U.S. 23 (2003) | "reverse passing off" and trademark cannot extend rights to previously copyrighted works now in the public domain |
| Entergy Louisiana, Inc. v. Louisiana Public Service Commission | 539 U.S. 39 (2003) | federal preemption of FERC-approved tariff over state agency order |
| Sell v. United States | 539 U.S. 166 (2003) | Forced psychiatric medication by lower federal courts is permissible under some circumstances |
| United States v. American Library Association | 539 U.S. 194 (2003) | Congressional requirement that libraries install web-filtering software held not to violate First Amendment |
| Gratz v. Bollinger | 539 U.S. 244 (2003) | racial discrimination, affirmative action, equal protection |
| Grutter v. Bollinger | 539 U.S. 306 (2003) | racial discrimination, affirmative action, equal protection |
| American Insurance Association v. Garamendi | 539 U.S. 396 (2003) | California state insurance statute struck down for interfering with Presidential foreign policy |
| Wiggins v. Smith | 539 U.S. 510 (2003) | ineffective assistance of counsel at sentencing |
| Lawrence v. Texas | 539 U.S. 558 (2003) | finding laws restricting sodomy between consenting adults unconstitutional; overruling Bowers v. Hardwick |
| McConnell v. FEC | 540 U.S. 93 (2003) | First Amendment; political speech |
| Verizon Communications v. Law Offices of Curtis V. Trinko, LLP | 540 U.S. 398 (2004) | the Sherman Antitrust Act and requirements of telecommunications companies under the Telecommunications Act of 1996 |
| Illinois v. Lidster | 540 U.S. 419 (2004) | accident investigation checkpoints do not violate the Fourth Amendment |
| Fellers v. United States | 540 U.S. 519 (2004) | once judicial proceedings have been initiated against a defendant, police officers cannot elicit information from the defendant without the defendant's counsel present |
| Doe v. Chao | 540 U.S. 614 (2004) | governmental violation of privacy rights |
| Locke v. Davey | 540 U.S. 712 (2004) | a religion clauses case upholding a Washington state scholarship program which excluded funding devotional studies. |
| Crawford v. Washington | 541 U.S. 36 (2004) | prior testimony exception to hearsay in criminal trials, Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses; abrogating Ohio v. Roberts |
| National Archives and Records Administration v. Favish | 541 U.S. 157 (2004) | availability of death-scene images under the Freedom of Information Act over the objection of family members; investigation into the suicide of Vince Foster |
| United States v. Flores-Montano | 541 U.S. 149 (2004) | reasonableness of removing a gas tank from a vehicle crossing the border under the Fourth Amendment |
| Vieth v. Jubelirer | 541 U.S. 267 (2004) | justiciability of suit to enjoin gerrymandering |
| Tennessee v. Lane | 541 U.S. 509 (2004) | Congress's power under the 14th amendment, section 5; Americans With Disabilities Act |
| Nelson v. Campbell | 541 U.S. 637 (2004) | challenging lethal injection protocols under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 |
| Republic of Austria v. Altmann | 541 U.S. 677 (2004) | retroactive application of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act |
| Central Laborers' Pension Fund v. Heinz | 541 U.S. 739 (2004) | an ambiguity in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act |
| Department of Transportation v. Public Citizen | 541 U.S. 752 (2004) | Presidential foreign affairs and foreign trade actions |
| Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow | 542 U.S. 1 (2004) | validity of “under God” in Pledge of Allegiance; standing to bring suit on another’s behalf |
| United States v. Dominguez Benitez | 542 U.S. 74 (2004) | appellate review standard for violations of Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure governing the taking of guilty pleas |
| Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court of Nevada | 542 U.S. 177 (2004) | constitutionality of state law requiring citizens to identify themselves to police |
| Aetna Health Inc. v. Davila | 542 U.S. 200 (2004) | ERISA's effect on federal jurisdiction of cases involving utilization review |
| Intel Corp. v. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | 542 U.S. 241 (2004) | foreign tribunals |
| Blakely v. Washington | 542 U.S. 296 (2004) | jury must find all elements of a criminal sentence beyond a reasonable doubt |
| Schriro v. Summerlin | 542 U.S. 348 (2004) | retroactively applying the rule set in Ring v. Arizona that a jury must find the aggravating factors in a capital murder case |
| Rumsfeld v. Padilla | 542 U.S. 426 (2004) | detention of American citizens |
| Rasul v. Bush | 542 U.S. 466 (2004) | jurisdiction over foreign nationals detained in Guantanamo Bay |
| Hamdi v. Rumsfeld | 542 U.S. 507 (2004) | detention of American citizens |
| Missouri v. Seibert | 542 U.S. 600 (2004) | Missouri's practice of interrogating suspects without reading them a Miranda warning, then reading them the warning and asking them to repeat their confession is unconstitutional |
| Leocal v. Ashcroft | 543 U.S. 1 (2004) | DUI is not a "crime of violence" requiring deportation of an alien |
| Koons Buick, Inc. v. Nigh | 543 U.S. 50 (2004) | Truth in Lending Act imposes a $1000 limit on statutory damages for violations of the Act involving personal-property loans. |
| KP Permanent Make-Up, Inc. v. Lasting Impression I, Inc. | 543 U.S. 111 (2004) | fair use defense to a trademark infringement action does not require proof that there is no likelihood of confusing the marks |
| United States v. Booker | 543 U.S. 220 (2005) | applying Blakely v. Washington to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines |
| Clark v. Martinez | 543 U.S. 371 (2005) | detention of aliens awaiting deportation |
| Illinois v. Caballes | 543 U.S. 405 (2005) | 4th Amendment search and seizure |
| Commissioner v. Banks | 543 U.S. 426 (2005) | Whether or not the portion of a money judgment or settlement paid to a taxpayer's attorney under a contingent-fee agreement is income to the taxpayer for federal income tax purposes. |
| Johnson v. California | 543 U.S. 499 (2005) | proper standard for reviewing constitutional race-discrimination claim in sorting prison inmates |
| Roper v. Simmons | 543 U.S. 551 (2005) | imposing the death penalty on juvenile murderers; overruling Stanford v. Kentucky |
| Cherokee Nation of Okla. v. Leavitt | 543 U.S. 631 (2005) | a Federal contract with an Indian tribe is binding, even if Congress did not appropriate funds |
| Tenet v. Doe | 544 U.S. 1 (2005) | enforceability of contracts between the government and spies (undercover CIA agents) |
| Shepard v. United States | 544 U.S. 13 (2005) | proving prior convictions obtained through guilty pleas under Taylor v. United States |
| City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation of N. Y. | 544 U.S. 197 (2005) | the repurchase of tribal land by an Indian tribe does not restore tribal sovereignty to the land |
| Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Saudi Basic Industries Corp. | 544 U.S. 280 (2005) | state court decisions and the application of the Rooker-Feldman doctrine |
| Dura Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Broudo | 544 U.S. 336 (2005) | standard for pleading loss causation in a securities fraud claim |
| Small v. United States | 544 U.S. 385 (2005) | resolution of split appeals court decisions on inclusion of foreign courts in the term "any court" |
| Granholm v. Heald | 544 U.S. 460 (2005) | interstate shipment of wine under the Dormant Commerce Clause |
| Deck v. Missouri | 544 U.S. 622 (2005) | shackling a defendant during the penalty phase of a capital murder trial |
| Arthur Andersen LLP v. United States | 544 U.S. 696 (2005) | legality of document destruction in the face of likely government investigation |
| Cutter v. Wilkinson | 544 U.S. 709 (2005) | religious freedom for prison inmates |
| Tory v. Cochran | 544 U.S. 734 (2005) | defamation, enjoinment of speech; continuity of injunction after death |
| Gonzales v. Raich | 545 U.S. 1 (2005) | legitimacy of using marijuana as a medicine, and power of the federal government to regulate intrastate activities |
| Spector v. Norwegian Cruise Line Ltd. | 545 U.S. 119 (2005) | applicability of the Americans with Disabilities Act to foreign-held companies |
| Merck KGaA v. Integra Lifesciences I, Ltd. | 545 U.S. 193 (2005) | applicability of patents in preclinical studies |
| Wilkinson v. Austin | 545 U.S. 209 (2005) | due process requirements for placing prisoners in Supermax prisons |
| Miller-El v. Dretke | 545 U.S. 231 (2005) | clarification of Batson v. Kentucky standard for peremptory challenges |
| Kelo v. City of New London | 545 U.S. 469 (2005) | eminent domain; takings of private property for private development |
| Van Orden v. Perry | 545 U.S. 677 (2005) | legality of a Ten Commandments display |
| Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales | 545 U.S. 748 (2005) | liability of police departments under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for failing to respond to domestic violence calls |
| McCreary County v. ACLU of Kentucky | 545 U.S. 844 (2005) | constitutionality of a Ten Commandments display; potential reformulation of the Lemon test |
| MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd. | 545 U.S. 913 (2005) | Copyright infringement in P2P file-sharing; re-examination of Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios |
| National Cable and Telecomm. Assn v. Brand X Internet Services | 545 U.S. 967 (2005) | allowing small internet service providers to lease bandwidth from privately owned coaxial cable lines |
Roberts Court 2005 term
| Case name | Citation | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Beginning of active duty of Chief Justice John Roberts, September 29, 2005 | ||
| Gonzales v. Oregon | 546 U.S. 243 (2006) | Attorney General did not permissibly construe Controlled Substances Act to prohibit the distribution of drugs for physician-assisted suicide |
| Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England | 546 U.S. 320 (2006) | Invalidating statute and lower courts rendering narrower declaratory and injunctive relief |
| Rice v. Collins | 546 U.S. 333 (2006) | Habeas corpus relief may not be granted on the basis of debatable inferences used to overturn the trial court's finding vis-á-vis peremptory challenges |
| Central Virginia Community College v. Katz | 546 U.S. 356 (2006) | state sovereign immunity under the 11th Amendment and the Bankruptcy Clause |
| Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal | 546 U.S. 418 (2006) | Federal government could not bar religious use of hallucinogenic tea |
| Buckeye Check Cashing, Inc. v. Cardegna | 546 U.S. 440 (2006) | Arbitrator must decide legality of contract unless arbitration clause is itself being challenged |
| Domino's Pizza, Inc. v. McDonald | 546 U.S. 470 (2006) | agent of a party to a contract cannot state a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 because he himself does not have rights to make or enforce under the contract |
| Dolan v. United States Postal Service | 546 U.S. 481 (2006) | scope of immunity of the United States Postal Service under the Federal Tort Claims Act |
| Arbaugh v. Y & H Corporation | 546 U.S. 500 (2006) | "Employee-numerosity" requirement of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is substantive, rather than jurisdictional in nature |
| Oregon v. Guzek | 546 U.S. 517 (2006) | States may constitutionally limit the evidence of innocence a defendant convicted of a capital offense may present at his sentencing hearing to the evidence already presented at his trial. |
| Texaco, Inc. v. Dagher | 547 U.S. 1 (2006) | joint venture was not a price-fixing scheme under antitrust law |
| Scheidler v. National Organization for Women | 547 U.S. 9 (2006) | physical violence unrelated to robbery or extortion falls outside the scope of the Hobbs Act |
| Illinois Tool Works, Inc. v. Independent Ink, Inc. | 547 U.S. 28 (2006) | patented products involved in product tying arrangements are not presumed to have market power under antitrust law |
| Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights | 547 U.S. 47 (2006) | law schools receiving federal funds may not ban military recruiters |
| United States v. Grubbs | 547 U.S. 90 (2006) | anticipatory search warrant did not violate the particularity clause of the 4th Amendment |
| Georgia v. Randolph | 547 U.S. 103 (2006) | police cannot conduct a warrantless search in a home where one occupant consents and the other objects |
| Day v. McDonough | 547 U.S. 198 (2006) | A State's unintentional failure to object to the filing of a habeas corpus petition after the statute of limitations has expired does not prevent a district court from dismissing the petition on its own initiative |
| Northern Ins. Co. of N.Y. v. Chatham County | 547 U.S. 268 (2006) | sovereign immunity does not apply to admiralty suit against county |
| Jones v. Flowers | 547 U.S. 220 (2006) | sufficiency of notice for tax sale |
| Hartman v. Moore | 547 U.S. 250 (2006) | A plaintiff in a retaliatory-prosecution action against federal officials must plead and show the absence of probable cause for pressing the underlying criminal charges. |
| Ark. Dep't of Human Servs. v. Ahlborn | 547 U.S. 268 (2006) | state liens on personal injury settlements |
| Marshall v. Marshall | 547 U.S. 293 (2006) | federal bankruptcy court binding state court on inheritance question |
| Holmes v. South Carolina | 547 U.S. 319 (2006) | limitations on exclusion of evidence in murder case, 6th Amendment |
| DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Cuno | 547 U.S. 332 (2006) | taxpayer standing in a Dormant Commerce Clause case |
| Sereboff v. Mid Atlantic Medical Services, Inc. | 547 U.S. 356 (2006) | fiduciary's recovery of personal injury settlement under ERISA |
| eBay Inc. v. MercExchange, L.L.C. | 547 U.S. 388 (2006) | nature of patent injunctions - revisiting Continental Paper Bag Co. v. Eastern Paper Bag Co. |
| S. D. Warren Co. v. Maine Bd. of Env. Protection | 547 U.S. 370 (2006) | interpreting scope of activities covered by the Clean Water Act |
| Brigham City v. Stuart | 547 U.S. 398 (2006) | reasonableness of officers' warrantless entry into a home to stop a fight under the "emergency aid exception" |
| Garcetti v. Ceballos | 547 U.S. 410 (2006) | extent of public employees' First Amendment right to free speech in the workplace |
| Anza v. Ideal Steel Supply Corp. | 547 U.S. 451 (2006) | activities subject to RICO |
| Zedner v. United States | 547 U.S. 489 (2006) | a criminal defendant may not prospectively waive his rights under the Speedy Trial Act |
| House v. Bell | 547 U.S. 518 (2006) | Post-conviction DNA forensic evidence can be considered in death penalty appeals |
| Hill v. McDonough | 547 U.S. 573 (2006) | a challenge to lethal injection as violating the Eighth Amendment properly raised a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and is not barred by previous habeas corpus petition |
| Hudson v. Michigan | 547 U.S. 586 (2006) | evidence obtained with a search warrant is admissible even when police violate 'knock-and-announce' rule |
| Rapanos v. United States | 547 U.S. 715 (2006) | whether wetlands are part of the "navigable waters of the United States" and thus regulated by the Clean Water Act |
| Davis v. Washington | 547 U.S. 813 (2006) | whether a 911 call is "testimonial" under Crawford v. Washington |
| Samson v. California | 547 U.S. 843 (2006) | evidence obtained in a suspicionless search of parolees is admissible, and not prohibited under the Fourth Amendment |
| Dixon v. United States | 548 U.S. 1 (2006) | burden of proof for duress as a defense to Federal firearms law violations |
| Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. White | 548 U.S. 53 (2006) | a job reassignment which is dirtier and more strenuous may constitute retaliatory discrimination under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as may a month of suspension without pay even when the employee receives back pay |
| Woodford v. Ngo | 548 U.S. 81 (2006) | the Prison Litigation Reform Act requires proper exhaustion of administrative remedies before an inmate can file a lawsuit |
| United States v. Gonzalez-Lopez | 548 U.S. 140 (2006) | trial court's erroneous deprivation of a criminal defendant's choice of counsel entitles him to reversal of his conviction |
| Kansas v. Marsh | 548 U.S. 163 (2006) | statute allowing the death penalty in cases where the aggravating and mitigating evidence are equal does not violate the Eighth Amendment |
| Randall v. Sorrell | 548 U.S. 230 (2006) | campaign finance laws which limit expenditures violate the First Amendment, and the anticorruption benefits of contribution limits must be weighed against their First Amendment costs |
| Arlington Central School Dist. Bd. of Ed. v. Murphy | 548 U.S. 291 (2006) | The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act does not authorize the award of experts' fees to prevailing plaintiffs |
| Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon | 548 U.S. 331 (2006) | informing a suspect of his rights under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations |
| League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry | 548 U.S. 399 (2006) | Texas's 2003 redistricting of District 23 constituted a violation of Latinos' rights under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, however mid-decade redistricting is constitutional as long as it is not solely motivated by partisan gain |
| Hamdan v. Rumsfeld | 548 U.S. 557 (2006) | Guantanamo Bay detainees may not be tried by a military commission under the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005; the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Geneva Conventions both apply to the detainees |
| Clark v. Arizona | 548 U.S. 735 (2006) | constitutionality of Arizona's insanity defense statute |
Roberts Court 2006 term
| Case name | Citation | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Lopez v. Gonzales | 549 U.S. 47 (2006) | misdemeanor drug crimes as aggravated felonies |
| Carey v. Musladin | 549 U.S. 70 (2006) | spectator publicity and the right to a fair trial; "clearly established" law under the AEDPA |
| BP America Production Co. v. Burton | 549 U.S. 84 (2007) | Statute of limitations on contract actions by the Federal Government under 28 U.S.C. § 2415 is not applicable to administrative proceedings |
| Medimmune, Inc. v. Genentech, Inc. | 549 U.S. 118 (2007) | enforceability of patents before infringement |
| Cunningham v. California | 549 U.S. 270 (2007) | applicability of Blakely v. Washington to California's determinate sentencing law |
| Philip Morris USA v. Williams | 549 U.S. 346 (2007) | constitutional limitations on punitive damages |
| Marrama v. Citizens Bank of Massachusetts | 549 U.S. 365 (2007) | bad-faith exception to the right to convert Chapter 7 bankruptcy case to a Chapter 13 case |
| Sinochem International Co., Ltd. v. Malaysia International Shipping Corporation | 549 U.S. 422 (2007) | District Court may respond immediately to defendant's forum non conveniens motion before resolving jurisdictional or other threshold concerns |
| Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency | 549 U.S. 497 (2007) | power to regulate carbon dioxide emissions |
| Davenport v. Washington Education Association | 550 U.S. 117 (2007) | A state may require that its public-sector unions receive authorization from nonmembers before spending their agency fees for election-related purposes |
| Gonzales v. Carhart | 550 U.S. 124 (2007) | Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act |
| James v. United States | 550 U.S. 192 (2007) | attempted burglary as a predicate crime under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| Scott v. Harris | 550 U.S. 372 (2007) | Fourth Amendment seizure in a high-speed chase, qualified immunity |
| KSR v. Teleflex | 550 U.S. 398 (2007) | Patent law, nonobviousness |
| Microsoft v. AT&T | 550 U.S. 437 (2007) | copying software in a foreign country cannot violate U.S. patent law |
| Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. | 550 U.S. 618 (2007) | statute of limitations on employment discrimination claims |
| Permanent Mission of India v. City of New York | 551 U.S. 193 (2007) | whether a municipality can sue other countries to collect unpaid taxes |
| Bowles v. Russell | 551 U.S. 205 (2007) | Federal Courts of Appeals lack jurisdiction to hear habeas appeals that are filed late, even if the district court said the petitioner had additional time to file |
| Brendlin v. California | 551 U.S. 249 (2007) | whether a passenger in an automobile is "detained" so that he may assert a Fourth Amendment violation stemming from the traffic stop itself |
| Credit Suisse v. Billing | 551 U.S. 264 (2007) | Whether Congress's creation of the SEC implicitly exempted regulated industries from antitrust lawsuits |
| Rita v. United States | 551 U.S. 338 (2007) | "reasonableness" of a federal prison sentence under United States v. Booker; continuing application of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines |
| Tellabs, Inc. v. Makor Issues & Rights, Ltd. | 551 U.S. 308 (2007) | The proper standard for determining whether a plaintiff has alleged a "strong inference" of scienter under the PSLRA |
| Morse v. Frederick | 551 U.S. 393 (2007) | free speech rights of high school students ("Bong Hits 4 Jesus") |
| CBOCS West v. Humphries | 551 U.S. 442 (2008) | race retaliation claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 |
| Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc. | 551 U.S. 449 (2007) | Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act's restriction on issue ads in election campaigns |
| Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation | 551 U.S. 587 (2007) | taxpayer standing to pursue an Establishment Clause claim against President Bush's faith-based initiative |
| Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education (companion case) |
551 U.S. 701 (2007) | affirmative action; using race as a tie-breaker in assigning students to public schools |
| Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc. | 551 U.S. 877 (2007) | applying rule of reason under Section 1 of the Sherman Act |
| Panetti v. Quarterman | 551 U.S. 930 (2007) | executing the mentally ill |
Roberts Court 2007 term
| Case name | Citation | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Watson v. United States | 552 U.S. 74 (2007) | whether trading drugs for a gun constitutes use of a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 924 and Bailey v. United States |
| Kimbrough v. United States | 552 U.S. 85 (2007) | whether the 100:1 ratio between powder and crack cocaine imposed by the United States Sentencing Commission yields "reasonable" sentences |
| Gall v. United States | 552 U.S. 38 (2007) | "reasonableness" of a federal prison sentence under United States v. Booker; continuing application of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines |
| Stoneridge Investment Partners v. Scientific-Atlanta | 552 U.S. 147 (2008) | third parties, such as investment banks, accounting firms and suppliers, can be shielded from liability if they engage in business with companies that are involved in securities fraud. |
| Ali v. Federal Bureau of Prisons | 552 U.S. 214 (2008) | Case upholding the United States's sovereign immunity against tort claims brought when "any law enforcement officer" loses a person's property. |
| Riegel v. Medtronic, Inc. | 552 U.S. 312 (2008) | Medical Device Amendment’s preemption clause bars common-law claims challenging the safety or effectiveness of a medical device marketed in a form that received premarket approval from the FDA. |
| Preston v. Ferrer | 552 U.S. 346 (2008) | the Federal Arbitration Act preempts state laws declaring that certain disputes must be resolved by a state administrative agency |
| Snyder v. Louisiana | 552 U.S. 472 (2008) | racial discrimination in jury selection; playing the "O.J. card" |
| Medellín v. Texas | 552 U.S. 491 (2008) | whether the president may direct state courts to obey an order of the World Court ruling regarding the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations |
| New Jersey v. Delaware | 552 U.S. 597 (2008) | boundary dispute between New Jersey and Delaware involving the Twelve-Mile Circle |
| MeadWestvaco Corp. v. Illinois Dept. of Revenue | 553 U.S. 16 (2008) | determination of state tax liability for corporation operating in multiple states according to the "unitary business rule" |
| Baze v. Rees | 553 U.S. 35 (2008) | constitutionality of lethal injection protocols under the Eighth Amendment |
| Virginia v. Moore | 553 U.S. 164 (2008) | whether the Fourth Amendment requires suppression of evidence discovered in a search conducted in violation of state law |
| Crawford v. Marion County Election Board | 553 U.S. 181 (2008) | constitutionality of requiring voters to show ID before voting |
| Department of Revenue of Kentucky v. Davis | 553 U.S. 328 (2008) | Kentucky statute providing a preferential tax break to Kentucky residents who invest in bonds issued by the state and its municipalities does not discriminate against interstate commerce |
| United States v. Williams | 553 U.S. 285 (2008) | constitutionality of the PROTECT Act, a 2003 law intended to bolster federal restriction against child pornography, in the wake of Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition |
| Gomez-Perez v. Potter | 553 U.S. 474 (2008) | Federal employees who face retaliation after filing an age discrimination claim are authorized to sue under the federal-sector provision of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967. |
| Quanta v. LG Electronics | 553 U.S. 617 (2008) | patent exhaustion and its applicability to certain types of method patents |
| Boumediene v. Bush | 553 U.S. 723 (2008) | whether the Military Detainee Treatment Act of 2006 unconstitutionally suspends the writ of habeas corpus |
| Allison Engine Co. v. United States ex rel. Sanders | 553 U.S. 662 (2008) | Plaintiffs under the False Claims Act must demonstrate that the defendants intended to deceive the government, not simply that government money was used to pay the claim. |
| Munaf v. Geren | 553 U.S. 674 (2008) | habeas corpus statute extends to American citizens held overseas by American forces operating subject to an American chain of command |
| Indiana v. Edwards | 554 U.S. 164 (2008) | may a criminal defendant be competent to stand trial yet simultaneously not competent to represent himself at that trial? |
| Greenlaw v. United States | 554 U.S. 237 (2008) | may a federal appeals court sua sponte increase a defendant's sentence on appeal, without a formal appeal by the government? |
| Rothgery v. Gillespie County | 554 U.S. 191 (2008) | does a criminal defendant have a right to counsel at an ex parte arraignment? |
| Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker | 554 U.S. 471 (2008) | legality of punitive damages award under federal maritime law for the Exxon Valdez oil spill |
| Kennedy v. Louisiana | 554 U.S. 407 (2008) | does the Eighth Amendment forbid the death penalty for rape of a child? |
| Giles v. California | 554 U.S. 353 (2008) | the forfeiture by wrongdoing exception to out of court statements by a witness only applies where the defendant caused the witness's absence in order to eliminate their testimony at trial |
| District of Columbia v. Heller | 554 U.S. 570 (2008) | does the Second Amendment allows a state or local government to outlaw the private possession of handguns? |
| Davis v. Federal Election Commission | 554 U.S. 724 (2008) | "Millionaire's amendment" to the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 violates the First Amendment |
Roberts Court 2008 term
| Case name | Citation | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council | 555 U.S. 7 (2008) | military preparedness outweighs environmental concerns, as Navy needs to train its crews to detect modern, silent submarines |
| Altria Group, Inc. v. Good | 555 U.S. 70 (2008) | federal law does not preempt the states' prerogative to regulate the advertisement of tar and nicotine rates in cigarettes |
| Herring v. United States | 555 U.S. 135 (2009) | evidence obtained during a search the police conducted as a result of an isolated act of negligence not related to the search is not subject to the exclusionary rule |
| Oregon v. Ice | 555 U.S. 160 (2009) | the facts necessary for imposing consecutive prison terms need not be submitted to a jury in accordance with Apprendi v. New Jersey |
| Waddington v. Sarausad | 555 U.S. 179 (2009) | on federal habeas review, courts must accept state court determinations that jury instructions fully and correctly set out state law with regard to accomplice liability |
| Pearson v. Callahan | 555 U.S. 223 (2009) | Saucier v. Katz is overruled; courts need not determine whether a civil-rights plaintiff's constitutional rights were violated if they determine that the right was not clearly established at the time of the injury |
Unreported Cases
| Case name | Opinion | Decided | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crawford v. Nashville | 06-1595 | 2009-01-26 | Employees who cooperate with an internal investigation of alleged sexual harassment are protected against retaliation under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. |
| Van de Kamp v. Goldstein | 07-854 | 2009-01-26 | Prosecutors are immune from suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for improperly supervising the disclosures made by line prosecutors pursuant to Brady v. Maryland. |
| United States v. Hayes | 07-608 | 2009-02-24 | Under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9), people who have been convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence crimes may not possess firearms as long as the government proves that the underlying offense involved a domestic relationship. |
| Pleasant Grove City v. Summum | 07-665 | 2009-02-25 | A municipality that allows a privately donated Ten Commandments monument to be displayed on public property need not permit the religion of Summum to put up its own statue of similar size. |
| Negusie v. Mukasey | 07-499 | 2009-03-03 | Under Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, the Board of Immigration Appeals (rather than a federal court) has the power to decide whether the so-called "persecutor bar" applies to asylum applicants applies to those who were forced to persecute others in their home country. |
| Wyeth v. Levine | 06-1249 | 2009-03-04 | Federal drug labeling requirements do not preempt state drug labeling requirements enacted to ensure that the public knew certain drugs are safe. |
| Fitzgerald v. Barnstable School Committee | 07-1125 | 2009-03-04 | The petitioner parents had the right to sue a school committee under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for failing to stop the sexual harassment their daughter endured. This decision reversed the Second Circuit's holding that Title IX provided the sole remedy the parents could seek. |
| 14 Penn Plaza LLC v. Pyett | 07-581 | 2009-04-01 | An employer and a union can agree, through a collective bargaining agreement, that the unionized employees must resolve discrimination claims in arbitration instead of court. |
| Harbison v. Bell | 07-8521 | 2009-04-01 | Under 18 U.S.C. § 3599, the federal government must provide lawyers to death row inmates seeking clemency in state proceedings. |
| Entergy v. Riverkeeper | 07-588 | 2009-04-01 | The Clean Water Act does not prevent the EPA from engaging in a cost-benefit analysis when setting standards for power plants that use large quantities of water for cooling. |
| Arizona v. Gant | 07-542 | 2009-04-21 | Police power to search an arrested person's vehicle is limited to safety concerns and evidence related to the actual arrest. |
| FCC v. Fox Television Stations | 07-582 | 2009-04-28 | The FCC may ban "fleeting expletives" on television broadcasts. |
| Cone v. Bell | 07-1114 | 2009-04-28 | The petitioner death row inmate had not forfeited the opportunity to argue that prosecutors withheld evidence important to his defense. |
| Dean v. United States | 08-5274 | 2009-04-29 | Upheld sentence for discharging a firearm during a violent crime, Congress intended a defendant to be held strictly liable for such an offense. |
| Flores-Figueroa v. United States | 08-108 | 2009-05-04 | whether the law enhancing the sentence for identity theft requires proof that an individual knew that the identity card or number he had used belonged to another, actual person |
| AT&T Corp. v. Hulteen | 07-543 | 2009-05-18 | The 1978 Pregnancy Discrimination Act is not retroactive, so maternity leave taken before it passed cannot be considered in calculating employee pension benefits. |
| Ashcroft v. Iqbal | 07-1015 | 2009-05-18 | whether top government officials can be held personally liable for allegedly knowing or condoning of racial and religious mistreatment of suspected terrorists |
| Caperton v. A. T. Massey Coal Co. | 08-22 | 2009-06-08 | Due process requirements for judges' recusal |
| United States ex rel. Eisenstein v. City of New York | 08-660 | 2009-06-08 | Where the Government has not intervened or actively participated, private plaintiffs under the False Claims Act must filed an appeal within 30 days of the judgment or order being appealed, according to the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure. |
| District Attorney's Office v. Osborne | 08-6 | 2009-06-18 | Found no due process, postconviction right to access to the state's evidence for DNA testing. |
| Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One v. Mukasey | 08-322 | 2009-06-22 | whether Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which gives the U.S. government authority to oversee state electoral-law changes, is no longer needed and is unconstitutional |
| Safford Unified School District v. Redding | 08-479 | 2009-06-25 | Strip search of a middle schooler violated the Fourth Amendment where the school lacked reasons to suspect either that the drugs presented a danger or that they were concealed in her underwear. |
| Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts | 07-591 | 2009-06-25 | Under the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment, the prosecution (if it plans to present a lab report as evidence in a criminal trial) must make the analyst who prepared it available for on-demand cross-examination by defense counsel. |
| Ricci v. DeStefano | 07-1428 | 2009-06-29 | White firefighters in New Haven suffered unfair discrimination because of their race when the city scrapped the results of a promotional exam. |
Roberts Court 2009 term
| Case name | Opinion | Decided | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Citizens United v. FEC | 08-205 | 2010-01-21 | whether federal campaign finance laws apply to a critical film about Senator Hillary Clinton intended to be shown in theaters and on-demand to cable subscribers |
| Padilla v. Kentucky | 08-651 | 2010-03-31 | must a criminal defendant's lawyer advise him of the immigration-related consequences of a criminal conviction? |
| Salazar v. Buono | 08-472 | 2010-04-28 | First Amendment restrictions on displaying a cross on public property |
| Reed Elsevier, Inc. v. Muchnick | 08-103 | 2010-03-02 | settlement of copyright infringement claims relating to an electronic database |
| Graham v. Florida | 08-7412 |
2010-05-17 | whether Roper v. Simmons should also apply to sentences of life without the possibility of parole |
| Ontario v. Quon | 08-1332 | 2010-06-17 | Privacy rights of public employees over text messages on employer-issued pagers. |
| McDonald v. Chicago | 08-1521 | 2010-06-28 | whether the Second Amendment should also apply against state and local governments |
Roberts Court 2010 term
| Case name | Opinion | Decided | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abbott v. United States | 09-479 | 2010-11-15 | Mandatory minimum sentences under federal sentencing law |
| Los Angeles County v. Humphries | 09-350 | 2010-11-30 | Section 1983 actions are limited to those caused by a municipality's "policy or custom" regardless of whether the plaintiff seeks monetary or prospective relief. |
| Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary v. Moore | 09-658 | 2011-01-19 | Habeas relief may not be granted with respect to any claim a state-court has found on the merits unless the state-court decision denying relief involves an "unreasonable application" of "clearly established federal law, as determined by" the Court. |
| Swarthout v. Cooke | 10-333 | 2011-01-24 | State prisoners have no constitutional right to parole. |
| Snyder v. Phelps | 09-751 | 2011-03-02 | The First Amendment protects from tort liability a person who speaks about a public issue on a public sidewalk, even if that speech is "outrageous." |
| Brown v. Plata | 09-1233 | 2011-05-23 | A three-judge panel of the District Court properly ordered the California prison system to release prisoners to resolve overcrowding. |
| Connick v. Thompson | 09-571 | 2011-03-29 | A prosecutor's office cannot be held liable for a single Brady violation by one of its members on the theory that the office provided inadequate training. |
| Williamson v. Mazda | 08-1314 | 2011-02-23 | A car accident victim can sue the manufacturer for failing to install a shoulder/lap seatbelt even where federal law permits it to install only a lap belt. |
| Arizona Christian School Tuition Org. v. Winn | 09-987 | 2011-04-04 | Taxpayers lack standing to challenge a tax credit program that provides dollar-for-dollar incentives to donations to school tuition groups, including those awarding tuition scholarships only to religious schools. |
| Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting | 09-115 | 2011-05-26 | An Arizona law that sanctions employers who hire illegal immigrants is not preempted by federal immigration law. |
| J.D.B. v. North Carolina | 09-11121 | 2011-06-16 | Age is relevant in Miranda cases. |
| Bullcoming v. New Mexico | 09-10876 | 2011-06-23 | A defendant's Confrontation Clause rights cover a non-testifying laboratory analyst whose supervisor testifies as to test results that the analyst transcribed from a machine. |
| Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association | 08-1448 | 2011-06-27 | The Constitution prevents the state of California from banning the sale of violent video games to minors. |
Roberts Court 2011 term
| Case name | Opinion | Decided | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cavazos v. Smith | 10-1115 | 2011-10-31 | A jury found that a grandmother was guilty of assaulting her 7-week-old grandchild, which the jury found had died of shaken baby syndrome. The Supreme Court held that the Ninth Circuit exceeded its authority under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) in reversing the verdict for insufficient evidence. |
| KPMG LLP v. Cocchi | 10-1521 | 2011-11-07 | Citing Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. v. Byrd, the Supreme Court remanded this case to a Florida appellate court for consideration of whether arbitration was required for some of the claims alleged. |
| Bobby v. Dixon | 10-1540 | 2011-11-07 | Under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (28 U.S.C. § 2254) and Harrington v. Richter, the Sixth Circuit had erred in granting a state prisoner's petition for writ of habeas corpus. It was not clear the state court had erred at all, a prerequisite for granting a habeas petition. |
| Golan v. Holder | 2012-01-18 | Congress can restore copyright protection to works that were formerly in the public domain. | |
| Southern Union Co. v. United States | 11-94 | 2012-06-21 | The rule of Apprendi v. New Jersey applies to the imposition of criminal fines. |
Roberts Court 2012 term
| Case name | Opinion | Decided | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lefemine v. Wideman | 12-168 | 2012-11-05 | Under 42 U.S.C. § 1988, a plaintiff who obtained only a permanent injunction against government officials (but no money damages) was a "prevailing party," so the government must pay his attorney fees. |
| United States v. Bormes | 11-192 | 2012-11-13 | The Little Tucker Act does not waive the government’s sovereign immunity with respect to Fair Credit Reporting Act damages actions. |
| Nitro-Lift Technologies, LLC v. Howard | 11-1377 | 2012-11-26 | The Oklahoma Supreme Court was wrong in preventing arbitration of a dispute over the scope of noncompete agreements in employment contracts. |
| Arkansas Game and Fish Commission v. United States | 11-597 | 2012-12-04 | Repeated, temporary flooding caused by the government is not automatically exempt from the Takings Clause, so the case was remanded for the lower court to decide if the government has to pay owners for using their land. |
| Kloeckner v. Solis | 11-184 | 2012-12-10 | A federal employee who claims that an agency action appealable to the Merit Systems Protection Board violates an antidiscrimination statute listed in 5 U.S.C. § 7702(a)(1) should seek judicial review in district court, not the Federal Circuit, regardless whether the MSPB decided her case on procedural grounds or on the merits. |
| Ryan v. Valencia Gonzales
Tibbals v. Carter (companion case) |
10-930 | 2013-01-08 | The federal law at issue, 18 U.S.C. § 3599, does not provide a state prisoner with the right to suspend his federal habeas proceedings when he is adjudged incompetent. |
| Los Angeles County Flood Control Dist. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. | 11-460 | 2013-01-08 | The flow of water from an improved portion of a navigable waterway into an unimproved portion of the same waterway does not qualify as a “discharge of a pollutant” under the Clean Water Act. |
| Already, LLC v. Nike, Inc. | 11-982 | 2013-01-09 | Nike's irrevocable promise not to enforce its trademark against its competitor mooted the competitor's lawsuit to invalidate the trademark. |
| Smith v. United States (2013) | 11-8976 | 2013-01-09 | A defendant bears the burden of proving a defense of withdrawal from conspiracy. |
| Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach, Florida | 11-626 | 2013-01-15 | Petitioner's floating home was not a "vessel" for purposes of 1 U.S.C. § 3, and therefore federal maritime jurisdiction was not triggered, because -- except for the fact that it floats -- nothing about it suggested that it was intended to transport people or things over water. |
| Sebelius v. Auburn Regional Medical Center | 11-1231 | 2013-01-22 | The 180-day statutory time limit for a hospital to appeal a final Medicare reimbursement is not "jurisdictional," but it is also not subject to equitable tolling. |
| Chafin v. Chafin | 11-1347 | 2013-02-19 | The return of a child to a foreign country pursuant to an order under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction does not render an appeal of that order moot; that is, the losing party can still appeal. |
| Bailey v. United States (2013) | 11-770 | 2013-02-19 | In Michigan v. Summers, the Supreme Court held that police officers executing a search warrant were allowed to detain people on the premises while they conducted the search. This case limits that to the "immediate vicinity" of the place being searched, so police searching a basement apartment couldn't search a man leaving from near the apartment in a car. |
| FTC v. Phoebe Putney Health System, Inc. | 11-1160 | 2013-02-19 | The state of Georgia was not immune from an antitrust lawsuit challenging the competition-reducing acquisitions of a state-owned hospital. |
| Florida v. Harris | 11-817 | 2013-02-19 | Because the police provided evidence showing the dog did well at training, a dog sniff provided probable cause for a search of a vehicle. |
| Gunn v. Minton | 11-1118 | 2013-02-20 | The federal law giving federal courts exclusive jurisdiction over patent cases, 28 U.S.C. § 1338(a), does not deprive state courts of the authority to hear a state law claim alleging legal malpractice in an underlying patent case. |
| Henderson v. United States | 11-9307 | 2013-02-20 | Regardless whether a legal question was settled or unsettled at the time of trial, an error is “plain” within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) so long as the error was plain at the time of appellate review. |
| Johnson v. Williams | 11-465 | 2013-02-20 | Under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, a federal court hearing a habeas petition from a state prisoner must presume that the state court decided the prisoner's federal claim on the merits, even if the state court did not expressly address that federal claim. |
| Evans v. Michigan | 11-1327 | 2013-02-20 | The Double Jeopardy Clause bars retrial following a court-directed acquittal, even if the acquittal was erroneous. |
| Chaidez v. United States | 11-820 | 2013-02-20 | The Court’s decision in Padilla v. Kentucky, holding that the Sixth Amendment requires defense attorneys to inform criminal defendants of the deportation risks of guilty pleas, does not apply retroactively to cases already final on direct review (that is, non-habeas appeals). |
| Marx v. General Revenue Corp. | 11-1175 | 2013-02-26 | Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 54(d)(1), a prevailing defendant in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act suit may be awarded costs even where the lawsuit was not brought in bad faith and for the purpose of harassment. |
| Clapper v. Amnesty International USA | 11-1025 | 2013-02-26 | Petitioners, a group of journalists and lawyers, did not have standing to challenge a federal law expanding the government's ability to engage in secret wiretapping because they could not prove they had been, or were about to be, wiretapped. |
| Gabelli v. SEC | 11-1274 | 2013-02-27 | The five-year statute of limitations for the SEC to bring a civil suit seeking penalties for securities fraud against investment advisers begins to tick when the fraud occurs, not when it is discovered. |
| Amgen Inc. v. Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds | 11-1085 | 2013-02-27 | In a private securities fraud class action, under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and an SEC rule, plaintiff class members do not need to prove that the fraud was "material" to their purchase of the securities. |
| Levin v. United States | 11-1351 | 2013-03-04 | The Gonzalez Act, 10 U.S.C. § 1089(e), waives some of the government's immunity, and so allowed a plaintiff to sue the United States for alleged medical battery inflicted by a Navy doctor during a cataracts surgery. |
| Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. | 11-697 | 2013-03-19 | The first-sale doctrine applies to copyrighted works made lawfully overseas. |
| Standard Fire Ins. Co. v. Knowles | 11-1450 | 2013-03-19 | Class representative of plaintiff class cannot defeat federal jurisdiction under the Class Action Fairness Act by stipulating that he will seek less than $5 million in damages. His stipulation does not bind the rest of the class. |
| Decker v. Northwest Environmental Defense Center | 11-338 | 2013-03-20 | The Clean Water Act does not require a permit before channeled stormwater runoff from logging roads can be discharged into rivers and other bodies of water. Reversing the Ninth Circuit, the Court held that the lawsuit was not barred, but that the EPA's interpretation of its own regulation (not requiring permits) was entitled to deference. |
| Wos v. E.M.A. | 12-98 | 2013-03-20 | A part of the federal Medicaid statute known as the "anti-lien provision" preempted a North Carolina law. That state law had required Medicaid beneficiaries who received money from a tort judgment or settlement to give one-third of that money to the state to reimburse it for the free medical care it had provided to the person. |
| Florida v. Jardines | 11-564 | 2013-03-26 | A dog sniff at the front door of a house constitutes a "search" for purposes of the Fourth Amendment. |
| Comcast Corp. v. Behrend | 11-864 | 2013-03-27 | The Third Circuit improperly certified a class action against cable company Comcast under Rule 23(b). The damages model the class proposed was not adequate. |
| Millbrook v. United States | 11-10362 | 2013-03-27 | The petitioner, a prisoner, was raped by federal prison guards. The so-called "law enforcement proviso" of the Federal Tort Claims Act allowed the petitioner to sue the federal government for the guards' conduct. |
| Marshall v. Rodgers | 12-382 | 2013-04-01 | The petitioner, convicted in state court of gun-related crimes, claimed the courts had violated his Sixth Amendment right to counsel by declining to appoint him a lawyer to assist him in filing a motion for a new trial, though he had waived this right three times already. The Ninth Circuit agreed with the petitioner, but the Supreme Court reversed and remanded. |
| Genesis Healthcare Corp. v. Symczyk | 11-1059 | 2013-04-16 | A nurse brought a collective action against her former employer for violating the Fair Labor Standards Act. The employer offered the nurse a settlement under Rule 68 for her own damages, but not those of other potential class members. The Supreme Court held that the offer mooted her claim. |
| US Airways, Inc. v. McCutchen | 11-1285 | 2013-04-16 | The terms of an ERISA plan governed when an ERISA claim was brought under the statutory provision authorizing "appropriate equitable relief . . . to enforce . . . the terms of the” plan. But when there are gaps in the plan, equitable doctrines may be used to construe it. |
| Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. | 10-1491 | 2013-04-17 | The Court unanimously agreed (albeit for different reasons) that the Alien Tort Statute did not allow a foreign citizen to sue a foreign corporation in an American court for aiding and abetting the commission of human rights abuses on foreign soil. |
| Missouri v. McNeely | 11-1425 | 2013-04-17 | In drunk-driving investigations, the natural dissipation of alcohol in the bloodstream does not constitute an exigency in every case sufficient to justify conducting a blood test without a warrant. |
| Moncrieffe v. Holder | 11-702 | 2013-04-23 | If a noncitizen’s conviction for a marijuana distribution offense fails to establish that the offense involved either payment or more than a small amount of marijuana, it is not an aggravated felony under the Immigration and Nationality Act. |
| McBurney v. Young | 12-17 | 2013-04-29 | Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act, which grants Virginia citizens access to all public records, but grants no such right to non-Virginians, violates neither the Privileges and Immunities Clause nor the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution. |
| Boyer v. Louisiana | 11-9953 | 2013-04-29 | A majority of the Supreme Court dismissed this writ of certiorari as "improvidently granted." The question presented had been: Under the Sixth Amendment's speedy trial guarantee, if delay in a criminal defendant’s trial is caused by inadequate state funding for indigent defense counsel, should that delay be counted against the State? Because this case was dismissed, the answer (from Vermont v. Brillion) remains "yes, but not much." |
| Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics | 12-398 | 2013-06-13 | The Court held in favor of Petitioners, that naturally occurring sequences of DNA cannot be patented, however artificially created "cDNA" is patent eligible. |
| Fisher v. University of Texas | 11-345 | 2013-06-24 | The Fifth Circuit failed to apply strict scrutiny when it affirmed the University of Texas's affirmative action policy. The decision is vacated and the case is remanded for further consideration. |
| United States v. Windsor | 12-307 | 2013-06-26 | Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional, as it violates due process and equal protection. |
| Hollingsworth v. Perry | 12-144 | 2013-06-26 | The Court held that the Petitioners did not have standing in the matter under Article III, § 2 of the Constitution. The decision of the circuit court is vacated and the case is remanded to the Ninth Circuit under instructions that the appeal be dismissed. |
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