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The Handy Supreme Court Answer Book, by David L. Hudson Jr., Visible Ink Press
A comprehensive overview of the Court from its inception in 1789 to the present – its 17 chief justices, its nearly 100 associate justices, and the major decisions that transformed American society.
On this page: What Warren Court decisions involved freedom of assembly or petition during the civil rights movement? to What were some of the hallmarks of the Rehnquist Court?.

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What Warren Court decisions involved freedom of assembly or petition during the civil rights movement?

What was Brown v. Board of Education?

What was Chief Justice Stone's professional experience?

What was Chief Justice Warren's last opinion for the Court?

What was circuit duty?

What was Footnote 11 in the Brown case and why has it received so much attention?

What was ironic about President Johnson's battle with the state of Mississippi about the Reconstruction Acts?

What was ironic about the date of the Court's decision in the Barnette case?

What was Justice Holmes's famous phrase from this case that involves fire in a theatre?

What was Leo Frank's fate?

What was most unusual in Supreme Court history about the number of justices on the Chase Court?

What was noteworthy about White's background?

What was the "sick chicken" case and how did it affect the National Industrial Recovery Act?

What was the alleged defamation in New York Times v. Sullivan?

What was the case that established that the ban on Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause of the Eighth Amendment applied to the states?

What was the Court's controversial eminent domain ruling in 2005?

What was the Court's other abortion case decided the same day as Roe v. Wade?

What was the effect of the Chadha decision?

What was the famous Standard Oil case?

What was the Fuller Court's first decision in which it applied the ShermanAntitrust Act?

What was the historical irony of the Warren Court being the great liberal court?

What was the impact of the Gibbons v. Ogden decision?

What was the initial salary of the Supreme Court justices?

What was the leading framer James Madison's opinion of judicial review?

What was the Lottery Case?

What was the only major constitutional decision in which Chief Justice Marshall was on the dissenting side?

What was the original oath that federal judges had to take?

What was the political affiliation of the presidents who appointed the current Roberts Court?

What was the position of the dissenting judges in the Truax Case?

What was the position of the Rehnquist Court on the death penalty?

What was the prior legal experience for Warren Burger before ascending to the U.S. Supreme Court?

What was the professional background of Fred Vinson?

What was the railway company's underlying claim in the case and what "just compensation" did it receive?

What was the ruling in The Amistad case?

What was the significance of the bridge-builders decision?

What was the subject matter of the decision that Justice Stone announced when he fell ill?

What was the vote breakdown in the Bakke case?

What was the Warren Commission?

What was unique about changes on the Burger Court?

What was unusual about Harlan Fiske Stone's elevation to chief justice?

What was unusual about Justice Black's swearing-in as a justice?

What was unusual about Justice White becomingchief justice?

What was unusual about Taft's confirmation as chief justice?

What was unusual about the Quirin case?

What was unusual about the South Carolina v. Katzenbach decision?

What was unusual, by current norms, of the arguments before the Court in the Standard Oil case?

What were salaries of the U.S. Supreme Court Justices?

What were some important precursors to Marbury v. Madison?

What were some of the administrative programs that were developed during the Burger Court era?

What were some of the hallmarks of the Rehnquist Court?