| A | B |
| Tinker v. Des Moines | symbolic speech including one's dress is protected. |
| Mapp v. Ohio | the exclusionary rule is incorparated upon the states |
| Gideon v. Wainwright | states are required to provide needy defendants if jail time is the a possible penalty |
| Baker v Carr | districts for elected state offices must have equal populations |
| U.C. Regents v. Bakke | universities may consider race as a factor in admissions, but not quotas were unconstitutional |
| Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier | schools have the right to censor school sponsored newspapers |
| Escobedo v. Illinois | criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations if they are a suspect |
| Griswold v. Connecticut | people have a right of privacy with-in their own house |
| New York Times v. the United States | the court upholds the governments right to prior restraint, but only in the case of a immediate, real threat to national security |
| Brown v. Topeka Board of Education I & II | found that segragated schools are inherently unequal |
| Marbury v. Madison | the Supreme Court has the right to use judicial review |
| Schenck v. the United States | freedom of speech is not protected if it presents a "clear and present" danger to people's safety |
| New York Times v. Sullivan | established the actual malice standard requiring that the plaintiff in a defamation or libel case prove that the publisher of the statement in question knew that the statement was false or acted in reckless disregard of its truth or falsity |
| Engel v. Vitale | it is unconstitutional for a school to ask/suggest/offer public prayer. |
| New Jersey v. T.L.O. | schools may search a student's property at school if they have any suspicion of illegal activity |
| Furman v. Georgia | found that up to this time (1972), the death penalty was more likely to be used on minorities, therefore making it violation of the equal protection clause |
| Miranda v. Arizona | required police to inform a suspect of his constitutional rights before questioning one about a crime |
| Plessy v Ferguson | created the separate, but equal doctrine |
| Lemon v Kurtzman | created a test to see if government involvement was constitutional or not |
| Roe v. Wade | used the right of privacy to allow for abortions during the first trimester |
| Miller v. California | for a publiciton to be considered obscene, it must have no socially redeeming quality |
| Citizens United v. FEC | the goverment cannot restrict an individual or a corporation's (group of people) right publish political advertising |
| McCullough v. Maryland | upheld the supremecy clause and a broad interpretation of the necessary and proper clause |