| Case name |
Citation |
Summary |
| United States v. Phellis |
257 U.S. 156 (1921) |
shares in a subsidiary corporation issued to stockholders in the parent corporation considered taxable income |
| Leser v. Garnett |
258 U.S. 130 (1922) |
constitutionality of Nineteenth Amendment |
| Balzac v. Porto Rico |
258 U.S. 298 (1922) |
sometimes considered one of the Insular Cases |
| United States v. Moreland |
258 U.S. 433 (1922) |
Fifth Amendment, hard labor in prison |
| Child Labor Tax Case |
259 U.S. 20 (1922) |
docket title Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co., found the Child Labor Tax Law of 1919 was not a valid use of Congress' power under the Taxing and Spending Clause |
| Hill v. Wallace |
259 U.S. 44 (1922) |
use of congressional taxing power under the Taxing and Spending Clause; relationship to Commerce Clause |
| Federal Baseball Club v. National League |
259 U.S. 200 (1922) |
baseball and antitrust regulation |
| Wyoming v. Colorado |
259 U.S. 419 (1922) |
whether Colorado could divert water from the Laramie River, an interstate stream system |
| Takao Ozawa v. United States |
260 U.S. 178 (1922) |
naturalization and race (Japanese-American) |
| Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon |
260 U.S. 393 (1922) |
Substantive Due Process, Takings clause of the Fifth Amendment |
| Moore v. Dempsey |
261 U.S. 86 (1923) |
mob-dominated trials, federal writ of habeas corpus, due process |
| United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind |
261 U.S. 204 (1923) |
naturalization and race (Indian-American) |
| Adkins v. Children's Hospital |
261 U.S. 525 (1923) |
freedom of contract, minimum wage laws |
| Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. v. United States |
261 U.S. 592 (1923) |
creation of implied-in-fact contracts |
| Board of Trade of City of Chicago v. Olsen |
262 U.S. 1 (1923) |
constitutionality of the Grain Futures Act under the Commerce Clause |
| Meyer v. Nebraska |
262 U.S. 390 (1923) |
constitutionality of law prohibiting teaching of foreign languages; substantive due process |
| Frothingham v. Mellon |
262 U.S. 447 (1923) |
rejection of taxpayer standing |
| Rindge Co. v. County of Los Angeles |
262 U.S. 700 (1923) |
eminent domain and the building of a scenic road |
| Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co. |
263 U.S. 413 (1923) |
review of state court decisions by U.S. District Courts |
| Chung Fook v. White |
264 U.S. 443 (1924) |
Interpretation of Immigration Act of 1917; marked end of era of strict plain meaning interpretation of statutes |
| United States v. Ninety-Five Barrels (More or Less) Alleged Apple Cider Vinegar |
265 U.S. 438 (1924) |
legality of misleading but factually accurate packaging statements under the Pure Food and Drug Act |
| Carroll v. United States |
267 U.S. 132 (1925) |
whether police searches of automobiles without a warrant violate the Fourth Amendment |
| George W. Bush & Sons Co. v. Maloy |
267 U.S. 317 (1925) |
Dormant Commerce Clause; states are not permitted to regulate common carriers engaged in interstate commerce on state highways |
| Linder v. United States |
268 U.S. 5 (1925) |
prosecution of physicians under the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act |
| Irwin v. Gavit |
268 U.S. 161 (1925) |
taxation of income from a trust |
| Pierce v. Society of Sisters |
268 U.S. 510 (1925) |
privacy |
| Gitlow v. New York |
268 U.S. 652 (1925) |
prosecution of seditious speech |
| Bowers v. Kerbaugh-Empire Co. |
271 U.S. 170 (1926) |
taxation of reduced loss on exchanged currency |
| Myers v. United States |
272 U.S. 52 (1926) |
Presidential authority to remove executive branch officials |
| Village of Euclid, Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co. |
272 U.S. 365 (1926) |
zoning, due process |
| United States v. General Electric Co. |
272 U.S. 476 (1926) |
patentee who grants a single license to a competitor to manufacture the patented product may lawfully fix the price at which the licensee may sell the product |
| Farrington v. Tokushige |
273 U.S. 284 (1927) |
constitutionality of anti-foreign language statute in the Territory of Hawaii under the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment |
| Nixon v. Herndon |
273 U.S. 536 (1927) |
challenging the white primaries in Texas |
| Buck v. Bell |
274 U.S. 200 (1927) |
compulsory sterilization, eugenics |
| Hess v. Pawloski |
274 U.S. 352 (1927) |
consent to in personam jurisdiction |
| Whitney v. California |
274 U.S. 357 (1927) |
prosecution of criminal syndicalism |
| Gong Lum v. Rice |
275 U.S. 78 (1927) |
admission of Chinese girl to school for White children in Mississippi |
| New Mexico v. Texas |
275 U.S. 279 (1927) |
determination of the border between New Mexico and Texas |
| Miller v. Schoene |
276 U.S. 272 (1928) |
Substantive due process, takings clause |
| Black and White Taxicab Co. v. Brown and Yellow Taxicab Co. |
276 U.S. 518 (1928) |
what law is to be applied when courts sit in diversity jurisdiction |
| Olmstead v. United States |
277 U.S. 438 (1928) |
admissibility of illegally-obtained phone wiretaps as evidence |
| Wisconsin v. Illinois |
278 U.S. 367 (1930) |
federal power over state interests, Chicago Sanitary Canal |
| Taft v. Bowers |
278 U.S. 470 (1929) |
taxation of a gift of shares of stock under the Sixteenth Amendment (Chief Justice Taft did not participate) |
| United States v. Schwimmer |
279 U.S. 644 (1929) |
denial of naturalization to a pacifist |
| Pocket Veto Case |
279 U.S. 655 (1929) |
constitutionality of the pocket veto |
| Old Colony Trust Co. v. Commissioner |
279 U.S. 716 (1929) |
third-party payment of income tax, effect of Revenue Act of 1926 |
