| Case name | Citation | Summary
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| Beginning of active duty of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, February 24, 1930
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| United States v. Sprague | 282 U.S. 716 (1931) | Tenth Amendment
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| Stromberg v. California | 283 U.S. 359 (1931) | constitutionality of California red flag-banning statute, freedom of symbolic speech
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| Near v. Minnesota | 283 U.S. 697 (1931) | freedom of speech, prior restraints
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| United States v. Kirby Lumber Co. | 284 U.S. 1 (1931) | taxation of gain on reduction of debt
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| New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann | 285 U.S. 262 (1932) |
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| Powell v. Alabama | 287 U.S. 45 (1932) | access to counsel
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| Sorrells v. United States | 287 U.S. 435 (1932) | Entrapment recognized as a valid defense
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| Nebbia v. New York | 291 U.S. 502 (1934) | Substantive Due Process, economic regulation
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| Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan | 293 U.S. 388 (1935) | delegation of authority, New Deal
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| Gregory v. Helvering | 293 U.S. 465 (1935) | tax law, business purpose doctrine
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| Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States | 295 U.S. 495 (1935) | interstate commerce, New Deal
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| Fox Film Corp. v. Muller | 296 U.S. 207 (1935) | contract dispute, "adequate and independent state ground"
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| United States v. Constantine | 296 U.S. 287 (1935) | taxation of liquor
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| United States v. Butler | 297 U.S. 1 (1936) | Taxation power, Tenth Amendment
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| Grosjean v. American Press Co. | 297 U.S. 233 (1936) | Freedom of the press, taxation of newspapers
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| Brown v. Mississippi | 297 U.S. 278 (1936) | coerced confessions by means of violence
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| United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. | 299 U.S. 304 (1936) | export restrictions, Presidential power over international commerce
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| DeJonge v. Oregon | 299 U.S. 353 (1937) | 14th Amendment applied to freedom of assembly
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| West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish | 300 U.S. 379 (1937) | freedom of contract, minimum wage laws; “the switch in time that saved nine”
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| 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”
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| Steward Machine Company v. Davis | 301 U.S. 548 (1937) | Court upholds the unemployment insurance provisions of the Social Security Act
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| Palko v. Connecticut | 302 U.S. 319 (1937) | selective incorporation, double jeopardy
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| Connecticut General Life Insurance Company v. Johnson | 303 U.S. 77 (1938) |
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| Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins | 304 U.S. 64 (1938) | existence of general federal common law
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| Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada | 305 U.S. 337 (1938) | chipping away at separate but equal education
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| United States v. Carolene Products Co. | 304 U.S. 144 (1938) | interstate commerce, substantive due process, and (in footnote four) equal protection
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| 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
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| United States v. Miller | 307 U.S. 174 (1939) | Second Amendment, right to bear arms
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| Coleman v. Miller | 307 U.S. 433 (1939) | length of time proposed Constitutional amendments remain pending
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| Hague v. CIO | 307 U.S. 496 (1939) | labor unions and freedom of assembly
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| Case name | Citation | Summary
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| Cantwell v. Connecticut | 310 U.S. 296 (1940) | incorporated Free Exercise Clause
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| Chambers v. Florida | 309 U.S. 227 (1940) | coerced confessions in a murder case
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| Minersville School District v. Gobitis | 310 U.S. 586 (1940) | saluting the flag
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| Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. | 312 U.S. 496 (1941) | Abstention doctrine
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| Cox v. New Hampshire | 312 U.S. 569 (1941) | petitions on public property
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| United States v. Darby Lumber Co. | 312 U.S. 100 (1941) | power of Congress to regulate employment conditions; Commerce Clause
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| Elevation of Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, July 3, 1941
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| Edwards v. California | 314 U.S. 160 (1941) | Commerce Clause, priviliges and immunities clause of the 14th Amendment
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| Lisenba v. People of State of California | 314 U.S. 219 (1941) | death penalty
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| Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire | 315 U.S. 568 (1942) | fighting words
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| Betts v. Brady | 316 U.S. 455 (1942) | due process, incorporation
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| Skinner v. Oklahoma | 316 U.S. 535 (1942) | compulsory sterilization, eugenics
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| Ex parte Quirin | 317 U.S. 1 (1942) | military tribunals for enemy spies
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| Wickard v. Filburn | 317 U.S. 111 (1942) | Commerce Clause
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| Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States | 318 U.S. 363 (1943) | Negotiable instruments, Federal common law
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| National Broadcasting Co. Inc. v. United States | 319 U.S. 190 (1943) | regulation of broadcasting networks
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| Burford v. Sun Oil Co. | 319 U.S. 315 (1943) | Abstention doctrine
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| Galloway v. United States | 319 U.S. 372 (1943) | directed verdict, 7th Amendment
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| West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette | 319 U.S. 624 (1943) | 1st Amendment, establishment of religion (Pledge of Allegiance)
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| Hirabayashi v. United States | 320 U.S. 81 (1943) | curfews against members of a minority group during a war with their country of origin
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| Smith v. Allwright | 321 U.S. 649 (1944) | voting rights, segregation
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| United States v. Ballard | 322 U.S. 78 (1944) | religious fraud
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| Korematsu v. United States | 323 U.S. 214 (1944) | Japanese Internment camps
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| Ex parte Endo | 323 U.S. 283 (1944) | Japanese-American internment and loyalty, decided same day as Korematsu
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| Cramer v. United States | 325 U.S. 1 (1945) | conviction for treason
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| Southern Pacific Co. v. Arizona | 325 U.S. 761 (1945) | Dormant Commerce Clause
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| Guaranty Trust Co. v. York | 326 U.S. 99 (1945) | Interpretation of the Erie Doctrine
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| International Shoe Co. v. Washington | 326 U.S. 310 (1945) | personal jurisdiction of states over corporations in other states
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| Commissioner v. Wilcox | 327 U.S. 404 (1946) | embezzled funds not considered taxable income, later overruled by James v. United States
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| Securities and Exchange Commission v. W. J. Howey Co. | 328 U.S. 293 (1946) | definition of "investment contract" under the Securities Act of 1933
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| Pinkerton v. United States | 328 U.S. 640 (1946) | the doctrine of conspiracy, Pinkerton Liability
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| Beginning of active duty of Chief Justice Frederick Moore Vinson, June 24, 1946
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| Everson v. Board of Education | 330 U.S. 1 (1947) | 1st Amendment, establishment of religion
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| Adamson v. California | 332 U.S. 46 (1947) | 5th Amendment, incorporation
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| International Salt Co. v. United States | 332 U.S. 392 (1947) | tying arrangements under the Sherman Act
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| Oyama v. California | 332 U.S. 633 (1948) | California Alien Land Laws, equal protection under the 14th Amendment
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| Shelley v. Kraemer | 334 U.S. 1 (1948) | equal protection, racial covenants
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| United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. | 334 U.S. 131 (1948) | Hollywood studios monopoly
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| United States v. National City Lines Inc. | 334 U.S. 573 (1948) | General Motors streetcar conspiracy
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| Woods v. Cloyd W. Miller Co. | 333 U.S. 138 (1948) | War Powers Clause
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| H.P. Hood & Sons v. Du Mond | 336 U.S. 525 (1949) | Dormant Commerce Clause
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| Wheeling Steel Corp. v. Glander | 337 U.S. 562 (1949) | due process (14th Amendment), Commerce Clause
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| Wolf v. Colorado | 338 U.S. 25 (1949) | 14th Amendment, state court, evidence from unreasonable search and seizure
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| Case name | Citation | Summary
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| Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. | 339 U.S. 306 (1950) | proper legal notice in the settlement of a trust
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| Graver Tank & Manufacturing Co. v. Linde Air Products Co. | 339 U.S. 605 (1950) | patent law, doctrine of equivalents
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| Sweatt v. Painter | 339 U.S. 629 (1950) | segregation, separate but equal
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| McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents | 339 U.S. 637 (1950) | Fourteenth Amendment, segregation
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| Johnson v. Eisentrager | 339 U.S. 763 (1950) | jurisdiction of U.S. civilian courts over nonresident enemy aliens; habeas corpus
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| Feiner v. New York | 340 U.S. 315 (1951) | Free speech v. public safety
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| Dean Milk Co. v. City of Madison, Wisconsin | 340 U.S. 349 (1951) | Dormant Commerce Clause
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| Universal Camera Corp. v. NLRB | 340 U.S. 474 (1951) | judicial review of agency decisions
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| Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath | 341 U.S. 123 (1951) | freedom of association
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| Dennis v. United States | 341 U.S. 494 (1951) | First Amendment and the Smith Act
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| Stack v. Boyle | 342 U.S. 1 (1951) | defines excessive bail
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| Rochin v. California | 342 U.S. 165 (1952) | restriction of police power
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| Morissette v. United States | 342 U.S. 246 (1952) | strict liability offenses
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| Dice v. Akron, Canton & Youngstown R. Co. | 342 U.S. 359 (1952) | reverse Erie doctrine, federal standard binding on state court
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| Ray v. Blair | 343 U.S. 214 (1952) | state rights in the electoral college
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| Beauharnais v. Illinois | 343 U.S. 250 (1952) | First Amendment and "group libel"
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| Zorach v. Clauson | 343 U.S. 306 (1952) | release time programs
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| Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson | 343 U.S. 495 (1952) | First Amendment and the censorship of films
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| Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer | 343 U.S. 579 (1952) | presidential power to seize steel mills during strike to ensure wartime production
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| Kawakita v. United States | 343 U.S. 717 (1952) | treason accusation against a person with dual citizenship.
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| United States v. Reynolds | 345 U.S. 1 (1953) | State secrets privilege
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| Beginning of active duty of Chief Justice Earl Warren, October 5, 1953
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| Toolson v. New York Yankees | 346 U.S. 356 (1952) | baseball and antitrust regulation
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| Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka | 347 U.S. 483 (1954) | segregation, “separate inherently inequal”
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| Bolling v. Sharpe | 347 U.S. 497 (1954) | segregation in the District of Columbia
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| Berman v. Parker | 348 U.S. 26 (1954) | eminent domain, takings
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| Commissioner v. Glenshaw Glass Co. | 348 U.S. 426 (1955) | definition of taxable income
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| Williamson v. Lee Optical Co. | 348 U.S. 483 (1955) | Due Process Clause, economic liberties
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| Griffin v. Illinois | 351 U.S. 12 (1956) | access to court transcript for indigent appeals
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| Reid v. Covert | 354 U.S. 1 (1957) | treaty power, right to jury trial
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| Roth v. United States | 354 U.S. 476 (1957) | obscenity
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| Perez v. Brownell | 356 U.S. 44 (1958) | revocation of citizenship for voting in a foreign election
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| Trop v. Dulles | 356 U.S. 86 (1958) | Eighth Amendment, loss of citizenship
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| Sherman v. United States | 356 U.S. 369 (1958) | Entrapment provisions apply to actions of government informers as well as agents
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| Byrd v. Blue Ridge Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 356 U.S. 525 (1958) | application of the Erie doctrine
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| Kent v. Dulles | 357 U.S. 116 (1958) | right to travel, power of Secretary of State
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| NAACP v. Alabama | 357 U.S. 449 (1958) | freedom of association, privacy of membership lists
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| Speiser v. Randall | 357 U.S. 513 (1958) | loyalty oaths
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| Cooper v. Aaron | 358 U.S. 1 (1958) | enforcement of desegregation, "massive resistance"
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| Beacon Theatres v. Westover | 359 U.S. 500 (1959) | right to civil jury trial under the Seventh Amendment, determination of legal & equitable issues
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| Louisiana Power & Light Co. v. City of Thibodaux | 360 U.S. 25 (1959) | Abstention doctrine
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| Smith v. California | 361 U.S. 147 (1959) |
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| Case name | Citation | Summary
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| Bates v. City of Little Rock | 361 U.S. 516 (1960) | First Amendment, compelled disclosure of membership lists
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| Boynton v. Virginia | 364 U.S. 454 (1960) | racial segregation
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| Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority | 365 U.S. 715 (1961) | state action
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| Gomillion v. Lightfoot | 364 U.S. 339 (1960) | race-based electoral districting
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| James v. United States | 366 U.S. 213 (1961) | assessment of income tax on embezzled funds
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| McGowan v. Maryland | 366 U.S. 420 (1961) | constitutionality of laws with religious origins but secular purposes
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| Braunfeld v. Brown | 366 U.S. 599 (1961) | constitutionality of Sabbath laws requiring Sunday closure of stores
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| Torcaso v. Watkins | 367 U.S. 488 (1961) | oaths, religious test, First Amendment
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| Poe v. Ullman | 367 U.S. 497 (1961) | ripeness to challenge statute banning contraceptives
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| Mapp v. Ohio | 367 U.S. 643 (1961) | search and seizure, exclusionary rule
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| Baker v. Carr | 369 U.S. 186 (1962) | reapportionment issues
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| Goldblatt v. Hempstead | 369 U.S. 590 (1962) | due process, takings clause, safety regulations
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| Engel v. Vitale | 370 U.S. 421 (1962) | school prayer
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| Edwards v. South Carolina | 372 U.S. 229 (1963) | First Amendment, protest marches at state capital
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| Gideon v. Wainwright | 372 U.S. 335 (1963) | right to counsel
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| Douglas v. California | 372 U.S. 353 (1963) | Fourteenth Amendment; right of poor defendants to criminal court appeals
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| Gray v. Sanders | 372 U.S. 368 (1963) | “one man, one vote”
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| Ferguson v. Skrupa | 372 U.S. 726 (1963) | substantive due process, economic liberties
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| Brady v. Maryland | 373 U.S. 83 (1963) | exculpatory evidence and due process
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| Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Paul | 373 U.S. 132 (1963) | Preemption, Dormant Commerce Clause
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| Abington School District v. Schempp | 374 U.S. 203 (1963) | constitutionality of mandatory bible reading in public schools
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| Sherbert v. Verner | 374 U.S. 398 (1963) | strict scrutiny for religiously-based discrimination in unemployment compensation
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| England v. Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners | 375 U.S. 411 (1964) | refining procedures for Pullman abstention from deciding issues of state law
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| Wesberry v. Sanders | 376 U.S. 1 (1964) | “one man, one vote”
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| New York Times Co. v. Sullivan | 376 U.S. 254 (1964) | freedom of speech, libel
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| Banco Nacional de Cuba v. Sabbatino | 376 U.S. 398 (1964) | jurisdiction of federal courts over acts of foreign countries; act of state doctrine
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| Massiah v. United States | 377 U.S. 201 (1964) | Sixth Amendment prohibition on police speaking to suspect represented by counsel
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| Reynolds v. Sims | 377 U.S. 533 (1964) | “one man, one vote” (state senates)
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| Jacobellis v. Ohio | 378 U.S. 184 (1964) | “I know [obscenity] when I see it[.]” – Justice Potter Stewart
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| Bouie v. City of Columbia | 378 U.S. 347 (1964) | due process and ex post facto law
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| United States v. Continental Can Co. | 378 U.S. 441 (1964) | antitrust
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| Escobedo v. Illinois | 378 U.S. 478 (1964) | right to remain silent
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| Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States | 379 U.S. 241 (1964) | interstate commerce, civil rights, public accommodations
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| Stanford v. Texas | 379 U.S. 476 (1965) | Fourth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, Unconstitutionality of State issued general warrants
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| Cox v. Louisiana | 379 U.S. 536 (1965) | First Amendment, "breach of the peace" statutes
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| Freeman v. Maryland | 380 U.S. 51 (1965) | First Amendment, motion picture censorship
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| United States v. Seeger | 380 U.S. 163 (1965) | definition of religion for a military draft exemption
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| Hanna v. Plumer | 380 U.S. 460 (1965) | interpretation of the Erie Doctrine, Civil Procedure
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| Griswold v. Connecticut | 381 U.S. 479 (1965) | privacy, birth control
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| Graham v. John Deere Co. | 383 U.S. 1 (1966) | nonobviousness as a condition of patentability
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| Brown v. Louisiana | 383 U.S. 131 (1966) | first amendment, right to protest
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| Memoirs v. Massachusetts | 383 U.S. 413 (1966) | obscenity
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| Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections | 383 U.S. 663 (1966) | poll taxes are unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause
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| United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs | 383 U.S. 715 (1966) | federal court jurisdiction over pendent claims
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| Miranda v. Arizona | 384 U.S. 436 (1966) | self-incrimination (“right to remain silent”)
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| Katzenbach v. Morgan | 384 U.S. 641 (1966) | voting rights, Section 5 power
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| In Re Gault | 387 U.S. 1 (1967) | due process, juveniles
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| Afroyim v. Rusk | 387 U.S. 253 (1967) | federal government cannot strip a person of his citizenship
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| Loving v. Virginia | 388 U.S. 1 (1967) | interracial marriage
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| Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts | 388 U.S. 130 (1967) | libel; effect of Sullivan on private figures
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| United States v. Wade | 388 U.S. 218 (1967) | no police lineup without counsel
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| Gilbert v. California | 388 U.S. 263 (1967) | handwriting
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| United States v. Robel | 389 U.S. 258 (1967) | First Amendment, right of association
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| Katz v. United States | 389 U.S. 347 (1967) | wiretapping as search and seizure
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| Duncan v. Louisiana | 391 U.S. 145 (1968) | selective incorporation, trial by jury
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| United States v. O'Brien | 391 U.S. 367 (1968) | free speech, burning draft cards
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| Witherspoon v. Illinois | 391 U.S. 510 (1968) | constitutional status of a death-qualified jury
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| Pickering v. Board of Education | 391 U.S. 563 (1968) | public employees' free speech rights
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| Terry v. Ohio | 392 U.S. 1 (1968) | search and seizure, power of police to stop and frisk suspicious persons
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| Flast v. Cohen | 392 U.S. 83 (1968) | taxpayer standing
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| United States v. Southwestern Cable Co. | 392 U.S. 157 (1968) | Administrative law
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| Jones v. Mayer | 392 U.S. 409 (1968) | housing discrimination
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| Epperson v. Arkansas | 393 U.S. 97 (1968) | teaching of evolution in conjunction with creationism
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| Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District | 393 U.S. 503 (1969) | freedom of speech in public schools
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| Stanley v. Georgia | 394 U.S. 557 (1969) | private possession of obscene material protected under First Amendment
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| Street v. New York | 394 U.S. 576 (1969) |
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| Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC | 395 U.S. 367 (1969) | Fairness Doctrine, broadcaster responsibilities, freedom of speech
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| Brandenburg v. Ohio | 395 U.S. 444 (1969) | freedom of speech, incitement to riot
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| Powell v. McCormack | 395 U.S. 486 (1969) | political question doctrine, justiciability
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| Chimel v. California | 395 U.S. 752 (1969) | search and seizure incident to arrest
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| Benton v. Maryland | 395 U.S. 784 (1969) | double jeopardy
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| Beginning of active duty of Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger, June 23, 1969
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| Case name | Citation | Summary
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| Goldberg v. Kelly | 397 U.S. 254 (1970) | procedural due process, hearing requirement
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| Walz v. Tax Commission of the City of New York | 397 U.S. 664 (1970) | tax exemption for churches
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| Williams v. Florida | 399 U.S. 78 (1970) | twelve-man jury
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| North Carolina v. Alford | 400 U.S. 25 (1970) | guilty plea in criminal case
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| Oregon v. Mitchell | 400 U.S. 112 (1970) | age and voting rights in state elections
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| Younger v. Harris | 401 U.S. 37 (1971) | abstention doctrine
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| Citizens to Preserve Overton Park v. Volpe | 401 U.S. 402 (1971) | judicial review of administrative agency actions
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| Griggs v. Duke Power Co. | 401 U.S. 424 (1971) | employment discrimination; disparate effect of employer practices
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| Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education | 402 U.S. 1 (1971) | use of busing for school desegregation
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| Coates v. Cincinnati | 402 U.S. 611 (1971) | criminal offenses on sidewalk
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| Cohen v. California | 403 U.S. 15 (1971) | freedom of speech, fighting words/obscenity, “fuck the draft”
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| Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents | 403 U.S. 388 (1971) | implied right of action in the Fourth Amendment
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| Lemon v. Kurtzman | 403 U.S. 602 (1971) | establishment of religion, schools, the “Lemon test”
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| New York Times Co. v. United States | 403 U.S. 713 (1971) | freedom of the press, national security, Pentagon Papers
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| Reed v. Reed | 404 U.S. 71 (1971) | gender discrimination in estate settlement
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| Parisi v. Davidson | 405 U.S. 34 (1972) | conscientious objector status
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| Eisenstadt v. Baird | 405 U.S. 438 (1972) | privacy, birth control
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| Wisconsin v. Yoder | 406 U.S. 205 (1972) | freedom of religion, high school education
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| Fuentes v. Shevin | 407 U.S. 67 (1972) | Opportunity to be heard
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| Flood v. Kuhn | 407 U.S. 258 (1972) | baseball and antitrust regulation
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| United States v. U.S. District Court | 407 U.S. 297 (1972) | Fourth Amendment, Search and seizure, Search warrant, Wiretapping
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| Barker v. Wingo | 407 U.S. 514 (1972) | Sixth Amendment and speedy trial
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| Lloyd Corps v. Tanner | 407 U.S. 551 (1972) | First Amendment; private property; rights
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| Furman v. Georgia | 408 U.S. 238 (1972) | death penalty, cruel and unusual punishment
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| Board of Regents v. Roth | 408 U.S. 564 (1972) | procedural due process in firing non-tenured professor
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