| A | B |
|---|
| Marbury v. Madison (1803) | First exercised judicial review |
| Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1818) | New Hamsphire tried to seize school |
| McCullough v. Maryland (1819) | Federal government can make national bank |
| Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) | Congress power to regulate interstate commerce |
| Barron v. Baltimore (1833) | States cannot take property (eminent domain) |
| Dred Scoot v. Sanford (1857) | Missouri Compromise unconstitutional |
| Ex parte Milligan (1866) | Appeal available when sentenced to death by military court |
| Slaughterhouse Cases (1873) | Louisiana slaughterhouse monopoly Constitutional |
| Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) | Louisiana segregation on train cars Constitutional |
| Schenck v. United Statey (1919) | Freedom of speech may be limited during wartime |
| Gitlow v. New York (1925) | Protection of free speech enforced by State governments |
| Near v. Minnesota (1931) | Government cannot censor newspapers in advance |
| Minersville v. Gobitas (1940) | Pennsylvania schools mandatory flag salute Constitutional |
| West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette (1943) | Mandatory reciting of Pledge of Allegiance Unconstitutional |
| Korematsu v. United States (1944) | Forced interment camps for Japanese during WWII |
| Everson v. Board of Education (1947) | New Jersey reimbursed parochial and private students for busing |
| Youngstown Company v. Sawyer (1952) | President cannot take possession of factories to stop nation-wide strike |
| Brown v. Board of Education (1954) | Segregation in schools Unconstitutional |
| Mapp v. Ohio (1961) | Evidence collected without warrant cannot be used in court |
| Engel v. Vitale (1962) | Schools starting day off in prayer Unconstitutional |
| Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) | Right to legal counsel for all felonies |
| New York Times v. Sullivan (1964) | Freedom of press |
| Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) | Connecticut cannot outlaw birth control for married couples |
| Miranda v. Arizona (1966) | inform the accused of their rights |
| Loving v. Virgina (1967) | Struck down Virginia ban on interracial marriage |
| Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969) | Freedom of speech for Ku Klux Klan |
| Tinker v. Des Moines (1969) | Protest of Vietnam War Constitutional |
| Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971) | Freedom of Religion |
| New York Times v. United States (1971) | Government stopped newspaper publications on Vietnam documents (ruled Unconstitutional) |
| Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972) | Amish teens exempt from school age laws |
| Roe v. Wade (1973) | States cannot ban abortion |
| US. v. Nixon (1974) | President cannot claim executive privilege to avoid subpoena |
| Buckley v. Valeo (1976) | Campaign refinance reform |
| Gregg v. Georgia (1976) | No cruel and unusual punishments did not include death penalties |
| Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) | Universities cannot use racial quotas in admissions |
| Stone v. Graham (1980) | Kentucky requiring Ten Commandments in classrooms Unconstitutional |
| New Jersey v. T.L.O (1985) | Ban on unreasonable searches in schools |
| Bethel School District v. Fraser (1986) | School suspended student for an inappropriate speech |
| Edwards v. Aquillard (1986) | Requiring Creation Science to be taught Unconstitutional |
| South Dakota v. Dole (1987) | Government withholding funds until States raised drinking age Unconstitutional |
| Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier (1988) | Schools can censor school newspapers |
| Texas v. Johnson (1989) | Protesting by flag burning is Constitutional |
| Lee v. Weisman (1992) | Clergy-led prayer at graduation Unconstitutional |
| United States v. Lopez (1995) | Federal Gvrt. making gun-free zones in schools Unconstitutional under Commerce (1st time since 1936) |
| Reno v. ACLU (1997) | 1996 Communications Decency Act Unconstitutional |
| Washington v. Glucksberg (1997) | Physician-assisted suicide illegal |
| Boy Scouts of America v. Dale (2000) | Gvrt. couldn’t force Boy Scouts to admit homosexual scout leader |
| Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe (2000) | Texas schools voting on a prayer to be read Unconstitutional |
| United States v. Morrison (2000) | Parts of the Violence Against Women Act were Unconstitutional |
| Board of Education of Pottawatomie County v. Earls (2002) | Schools can require students in extra-curriculars to submit to drug tests |
| Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002) | Govrt. program providing vouchers for religious school Constitutional |
| Gratz v. Bollinger (2003) | Univ. of Michigan’s admissions system used race as a factor too greatly was Unconstitutional |
| Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) | Affirmative action during admissions by Univ. of Michigan Law School Constitutional |
| Lawrence v. Texas (2003) | Texas law forbidding sexual acts by same sexed people Unconstitutional |
| Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2004) | Executive branch cannot alone designate people as “enemy combatants” and then hold them without due process of law |
| Gonzalez v. Raich (2005) | CA law allowing people to grow marijuana for medical use Unconstitutional |
| Kelo v. New London (2005) | Govrt. can take person property for economic development |
| McCreary County v. ACLU (2005) | Ten Commandments in Kentucky courthouses Unconstitutional |
| Van Orden v. Perry (2005) | Texas monument of Ten Commandments near State Capitol Constitutional |
| Boumediene v. Bush (2007) | Gitmo detainees had 5th Amendment rights for due process of law |
| Morse v. Frederick (2007) | 1st Amendment does not cover promoting illegal drugs |
| District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) | District of Columbia’s law against firearms is Unconstitutional |
