| Case name |
Citation |
Summary |
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| Lucas v. Earl |
281 U.S. 111 (1930) |
origin of Assignment of income doctrine, contract to divide income between husband and wife |
| United States v. Sprague |
282 U.S. 716 (1931) |
Tenth Amendment |
| McBoyle v. United States |
283 U.S. 25 (1931) |
National Motor Vehicle Theft Act held not to apply to aircraft |
| Stromberg v. California |
283 U.S. 359 (1931) |
constitutionality of California red flag-banning statute, freedom of symbolic speech |
| Burnet v. Logan |
283 U.S. 404 (1931) |
Cost basis must be recovered before taxpayer realizes any taxable income |
| Near v. Minnesota |
283 U.S. 697 (1931) |
freedom of speech, prior restraints |
| United States v. Kirby Lumber Co. |
284 U.S. 1 (1931) |
taxation of gain on reduction of debt |
| Blackmer v. United States |
284 U.S. 421 (1932) |
International law and 5th Amendment allowed U.S. government to retain jurisdiction over its citizens abroad |
| Blockburger v. United States |
284 U.S. 299 (1932) |
standard for double jeopardy |
| Crowell v. Benson |
285 U.S. 22 (1932) |
upholding adjudication of private rights by an administrative agency, not an Article III court |
| New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann |
285 U.S. 262 (1932) |
substantive due process |
| Nixon v. Condon |
286 U.S. 73 (1932) |
White primaries in Texas violated Equal Protection Clause |
| North American Oil Consolidated v. Burnet |
286 U.S. 417 (1932) |
claim of right doctrine in U.S. tax law |
| Powell v. Alabama |
287 U.S. 45 (1932) |
access to counsel |
| Sorrells v. United States |
287 U.S. 435 (1932) |
Entrapment recognized as a valid defense |
| Home Building & Loan Association v. Blaisdell |
290 U.S. 398 (1934) |
Minnesota's suspension of creditor's remedies did not violate the Contract Clause |
| Burroughs v. United States |
290 U.S. 534 (1934) |
upholding the constitutionality of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act |
| Nebbia v. New York |
291 U.S. 502 (1934) |
Substantive Due Process, economic regulation |
| Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan |
293 U.S. 388 (1935) |
delegation of authority, New Deal |
| Gregory v. Helvering |
293 U.S. 465 (1935) |
tax law, business purpose doctrine |
| Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States |
295 U.S. 495 (1935) |
interstate commerce, New Deal |
| Humphrey's Executor v. United States |
295 U.S. 602 (1935) |
administrative action, separation of powers |
| Pacific States Box & Basket Co. v. White |
296 U.S. 176 (1935) |
early case on standard of review for regulations |
| Fox Film Corp. v. Muller |
296 U.S. 207 (1935) |
contract dispute, "adequate and independent state ground" |
| United States v. Constantine |
296 U.S. 287 (1935) |
taxation of liquor |
| United States v. Butler |
297 U.S. 1 (1936) |
Taxation power, Tenth Amendment |
| Grosjean v. American Press Co. |
297 U.S. 233 (1936) |
Freedom of the press, taxation of newspapers |
| Brown v. Mississippi |
297 U.S. 278 (1936) |
coerced confessions by means of violence |
| Wallace v. Cutten |
298 U.S. 229 (1936) |
application of the Grain Futures Act |
| Valentine v. United States |
299 U.S. 5 (1936) |
extradition powers of the executive branch |
| Bourdieu v. Pacific Western Oil Co. |
299 U.S. 65 (1936) |
U.S. government as an indispensable party |
| United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. |
299 U.S. 304 (1936) |
export restrictions, Presidential power over international commerce |
| DeJonge v. Oregon |
299 U.S. 353 (1937) |
14th Amendment applied to freedom of assembly |
| West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish |
300 U.S. 379 (1937) |
freedom of contract, minimum wage laws; “the switch in time that saved nine” |
| National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation |
301 U.S. 1 (1937) |
interstate commerce; another consequence of “the switch in time that saved nine” |
| Steward Machine Company v. Davis |
301 U.S. 548 (1937) |
Court upholds the unemployment insurance provisions of the Social Security Act |
| Bogardus v. Commissioner |
302 U.S. 34 (1937) |
distinction between taxable compensation and tax-exempt gifts under the Internal Revenue Code |
| Palko v. Connecticut |
302 U.S. 319 (1937) |
selective incorporation, double jeopardy |
| Connecticut General Life Insurance Company v. Johnson |
303 U.S. 77 (1938) |
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| Lovell v. City of Griffin |
303 U.S. 444 (1938) |
City ordinance requiring official permission to distribute literature held unconstitutionally broad |
| New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co. |
303 U.S. 552 (1938) |
safeguard right to boycott and chips away at discriminatory hiring practices against African Americans |
| Hale v. Kentucky |
303 U.S. 613 (1938) |
exclusion of African Americans from juries |
| Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins |
304 U.S. 64 (1938) |
limiting general federal common law by requiring that state law apply except where federal law exists |
| Hinderlider v. La Plata River & Cherry Creek Ditch |
304 U.S. 92 (1938) |
reaffirming existence of federal common law in other cases |
| United States v. Carolene Products Co. |
304 U.S. 144 (1938) |
interstate commerce, substantive due process, and (in footnote four) equal protection |
| NLRB v. Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co. |
304 U.S. 333 (1938) |
Striking workers continue to be employees within the meaning of the National Labor Relations Act, but use of strikebreakers is permissible |
| Johnson v. Zerbst |
304 U.S. 458 (1938) |
Sixth Amendment right to counsel in federal criminal cases |
| Collins v. Yosemite Park & Curry Co. |
304 U.S. 518 (1938) |
Twenty-first Amendment and the enforcement of state liquor laws in U.S. national parks |
| Kellogg Co. v. National Biscuit Co. |
305 U.S. 111 (1938) |
patent holder has no remedy in unfair competition law against competitor selling similar goods under a non-trademarked name after patent expires—prelude to functionality doctrine |
| Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada |
305 U.S. 337 (1938) |
chipping away at separate but equal education |
| United States v. Miller |
307 U.S. 174 (1939) |
Second Amendment, right to bear arms |
| Coleman v. Miller |
307 U.S. 433 (1939) |
length of time proposed Constitutional amendments remain pending |
| Hague v. CIO |
307 U.S. 496 (1939) |
labor unions and freedom of assembly |
| Schneider v. New Jersey |
308 U.S. 147 (1939) |
enforcement of littering ordinances and free speech |
| Chambers v. Florida |
309 U.S. 227 (1940) |
coerced confessions in a murder case |
| Helvering v. Bruun |
309 U.S. 461 (1940) |
A landlord realizes a taxable gain when he repossesses property improved by a tenant |
| Thornhill v. Alabama |
310 U.S. 88 (1940) |
free speech clause of First Amendment includes peaceful labor picketing |
| Cantwell v. Connecticut |
310 U.S. 296 (1940) |
incorporated Free Exercise Clause |
| United States v. American Trucking Associations |
310 U.S. 534 (1940) |
Motor Carrier Act of 1935 did not empower the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate all employees of common and contract motor carriers, but rather only those whose duties affect safety of operation |
| Minersville School District v. Gobitis |
310 U.S. 586 (1940) |
saluting the flag |
| Hansberry v. Lee |
311 U.S. 32 (1940) |
res judicata may not bind a subsequent plaintiff who had no opportunity to be represented in the earlier civil action |
| Helvering v. Horst |
311 U.S. 112 (1940) |
refinement of assignment of income doctrine |
| Sibbach v. Wilson |
312 U.S. 1 (1941) |
Erie doctrine, applicability of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure |
| Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. |
312 U.S. 496 (1941) |
Abstention doctrine |
| Cox v. New Hampshire |
312 U.S. 569 (1941) |
petitions on public property |
| United States v. Darby Lumber Co. |
312 U.S. 100 (1941) |
power of the United States Congress to regulate employment conditions; Commerce Clause |
| United States v. Classic |
313 U.S. 299 (1941) |
power of the federal government to regulate primary elections |
