Political Science

Supreme Court Cases

Documents

• Marbury v. Madison (1803)
• Fletcher v. Peck (1810)
• Martin v. Hunter's Lessee (1816)
• John Marshall: McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
• Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)
• Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
• State v. Mann (1830)
• United States v. Amistad (1841)
• Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842)
• Roger B. Taney's Opinion in the License Cases (1847)
• Roberts v. City of Boston (1850)
• Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
• Stephen J. Field's Opinion in Cummings v. Missouri (1867)
• Salmon P. Chase: Opinion in Texas v. White (1869)
• United States v. Cruikshank (1876)
• Stephen J. Field's Opinion in Munn v. Illinois (1876)
• Stephen J. Field's Opinion in Ho Ah Kow v. Nunan (1879)
• Civil Rights Cases (1883)
• John Marshall Harlan's Opinion Hurtado v. California (1884)
• John Marshall Harlan's Opinion Pollock v. Farmers' Loan + Trust Co. (1895)
• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
• The Insular Cases: Downes v. Bidwell (1901)
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.’s Opinion in Lochner v. New York (1905)
• Muller v. Oregon (1908)
• Guinn v. United States (1915)
• Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918)
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.’s Opinion in Schenck v. United States (1919)
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.’s Opinion in Abrams v. United States (1919)
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.’s Opinion in Buck v. Bell (1927)
• Louis D. Brandeis: Opinion in Whitney v. California (1927)
• Louis D. Brandeis: Opinion in Olmstead v. United States (1928)
• United States v. Curtiss-Wright (1936)
• Charles Hamilton Houston's Petition in Missouri ex rel Gaines v. Canada (1938)
• Felix Frankfurter's Opinion in Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940)
• Robert H. Jackson's Opinion in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)
• Hugo Black: Opinion in Korematsu v. United States (1944)
• Felix Frankfurter's Opinion in Colegrove v. Green (1946)
• Hugo Black: Opinion in Adamson v. California (1947)
• Charles Hamilton Houston's Petition in Hurd v. Hodge (1948)
• Sweatt v. Painter (1950)
• William O. Douglas's Opinion in Dennis v. United States (1951)
• Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952)
• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
• Felix Frankfurter's Opinion in Cooper v. Aaron (1958)
• Felix Frankfurter's Opinion in Gomillion v. Lightfoot (1960)
• William O. Douglas's Opinion in Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
• William J. Brennan, Jr.: Opinion in Baker v. Carr (1962)
• Hugo Black: Opinion in Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
• Earl Warren's Opinion in Reynolds v. Sims (1964)
• William J. Brennan, Jr.: Opinion in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964)
• Hugo Black: Opinion in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
• William O. Douglas's Opinion in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
• Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
• Bond v. Floyd (1966)
• South Carolina v. Katzenbach (1966)
• Loving v. Virginia (1967)
• Pentagon Papers Case (1971)
• Clay v. United States (1971)
• Warren E. Burger: Opinion in Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (1971)
• Thurgood Marshall's Opinion in Furman v. Georgia (1972)
• Thurgood Marshall's Opinion in Grayned v. City of Rockford (1972)
• William O. Douglas's Opinion in Furman v. Georgia (1972)
• William O. Douglas's Opinion in Sierra Club v. Morton (1972)
• Roe v. Wade (1973)
• Warren E. Burger: Opinion in United States v. Nixon (1974)
• Warren E. Burger: Opinion in Milliken v. Bradley (1974)
• William J. Brennan, Jr.: Opinion in Craig v. Boren (1976)
• Harry Blackmun: Opinion in Beal v. Doe (1977)
• Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
• Harry Blackmun: Opinion in Bowers v. Hardwick (1986)
• Harry Blackmun: Opinion in DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services (1989)
• Sandra Day O'Connor: Opinion in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989)
• Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989)
• William J. Brennan, Jr.: Opinion in Texas v. Johnson (1989)
• Sandra Day O'Connor: Opinion in Metro Broadcasting, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission (1990)
• Thurgood Marshall's Opinion in Florida v. Bostick (1991)
• Harry Blackmun: Opinion in Callins v. Collins (1994)
• William Rehnquist's Opinion in United States v. Lopez (1995)
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Opinion in United States v. Virginia (1996)
• Bush v. Gore (2000)
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Opinion in Friends of the Earth, Inc. et al. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services (2000)
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Opinion in Stenberg, Attorney General of Nebraska, et al. v. Carhart (2000)
• Sandra Day O'Connor: Opinion in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002)
• Lawrence v. Texas (2003)
• Clarence Thomas's Concurrence/Dissent in Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Opinion in Eldred v. Ashcroft (2003)
• Sandra Day O'Connor: Opinion in Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)