| Case name |
Citation |
Summary |
| Toolson v. New York Yankees |
346 U.S. 356 (1953) |
baseball antitrust exemption upheld |
| Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka |
347 U.S. 483 (1954) |
segregation, “separate inherently unequal” |
| Hernandez v. Texas |
347 U.S. 475 (1954) |
application of the Fourteenth Amendment to Mexican Americans |
| Bolling v. Sharpe |
347 U.S. 497 (1954) |
segregation in the District of Columbia |
| United States v. Harriss |
347 U.S. 612 (1954) |
constitutionality of the Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act |
| Berman v. Parker |
348 U.S. 26 (1954) |
eminent domain, takings |
| United States v. International Boxing Club of New York |
348 U.S. 236 (1955) |
boxing not exempt from antitrust regulation |
| Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States |
348 U.S. 272 (1955) |
Federal government did not owe Indian tribe compensation for timber taken from tribal-occupied lands in Alaska under the 5th Amendment |
| Commissioner v. Glenshaw Glass Co. |
348 U.S. 426 (1955) |
definition of taxable income |
| Williamson v. Lee Optical Co. |
348 U.S. 483 (1955) |
Due Process Clause, economic liberties |
| Griffin v. Illinois |
351 U.S. 12 (1956) |
access to court transcript for indigent appeals |
| Radovich v. National Football League |
352 U.S. 445 (1957) |
professional football covered by antitrust laws |
| Reid v. Covert |
354 U.S. 1 (1957) |
treaty power, right to jury trial |
| Watkins v. United States |
354 U.S. 178 (1957) |
rights of a witness in refusing to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities Committee |
| Yates v. United States |
354 U.S. 298 (1957) |
free speech, distinction between expression of opinion and advocacy of action |
| Roth v. United States |
354 U.S. 476 (1957) |
obscenity |
| Conley v. Gibson |
355 U.S. 41 (1957) |
liberal pleading standards under Rule 8 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure |
| McGee v. International Life Insurance Co. |
355 U.S. 220 (1957) |
California did not violate the Due Process Clause when entering a binding judgment on a Texas corporation with "substantial connection[s]" to California |
| Lambert v. California |
355 U.S. 225 (1957) |
mens rea and ignorance of the law |
| One, Inc. v. Olesen |
355 U.S. 371 (1958) |
pro-homosexual writings and the Comstock laws |
| Perez v. Brownell |
356 U.S. 44 (1958) |
revocation of citizenship for voting in a foreign election |
| Trop v. Dulles |
356 U.S. 86 (1958) |
Eighth Amendment, loss of citizenship |
| Sherman v. United States |
356 U.S. 369 (1958) |
Entrapment provisions apply to actions of government informers as well as agents |
| Byrd v. Blue Ridge Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. |
356 U.S. 525 (1958) |
application of the Erie doctrine |
| Kent v. Dulles |
357 U.S. 116 (1958) |
right to travel, power of Secretary of State |
| Societe Internationale v. Rogers |
357 U.S. 197 (1958) |
appropriateness of involuntary dismissal of a case in which petitioner failed to produce records of a Swiss bank account |
| NAACP v. Alabama |
357 U.S. 449 (1958) |
freedom of association, privacy of membership lists |
| Speiser v. Randall |
357 U.S. 513 (1958) |
loyalty oaths |
| Cooper v. Aaron |
358 U.S. 1 (1958) |
enforcement of desegregation, "massive resistance" |
| Cammarano v. United States |
358 U.S. 498 (1959) |
business expenses incurred for the "promotion or defeat of legislation" are not tax deductible |
| Bartkus v. Illinois |
359 U.S. 121 (1959) |
"separate sovereigns" exception to double jeopardy; federal and state officials may cooperate in criminal investigations |
| Frank v. Maryland |
359 U.S. 360 (1959) |
warrantless administrative searches are permissible under the Fourth Amendment |
| Beacon Theatres v. Westover |
359 U.S. 500 (1959) |
right to civil jury trial under the Seventh Amendment, determination of legal & equitable issues |
| Louisiana Power & Light Co. v. City of Thibodaux |
360 U.S. 25 (1959) |
Abstention doctrine |
| Barenblatt v. United States |
360 U.S. 109 (1959) |
upholding conviction for refusing to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities Committee against First Amendment challenge |
| Smith v. California |
361 U.S. 147 (1959) |
sale of obscene books |
| Bates v. City of Little Rock |
361 U.S. 516 (1960) |
First Amendment, compelled disclosure of membership lists |
| United States v. Raines |
362 U.S. 17 (1960) |
Fifteenth Amendment, Civil Rights Act |
| Federal Power Commission v. Tuscarora Indian Nation |
362 U.S. 99 (1960) |
eminent domain over Indian lands |
| Flora v. United States |
362 U.S. 145 (1960) |
Pay Income Tax Then Litigate, Internal Revenue Act |
| Dusky v. United States |
362 U.S. 402 (1960) |
standard for adjudicative competence |
| Commissioner v. Duberstein |
363 U.S. 278 (1960) |
definition of a 'gift' for taxation purposes |
| Flemming v. Nestor |
363 U.S. 603 (1960) |
no property right in Social Security benefits |
| Boynton v. Virginia |
364 U.S. 454 (1960) |
racial segregation |
| Monroe v. Pape |
365 U.S. 167 (1961) |
municipalities cannot be held liable under the Civil Rights Act of 1871 |
| Aro Mfg. Co. v. Convertible Top Replacement Co. |
365 U.S. 336 (1961) |
doctrine of repair and reconstruction in United States patent law |
| Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority |
365 U.S. 715 (1961) |
state action |
| Gomillion v. Lightfoot |
364 U.S. 339 (1960) |
race-based electoral districting |
| James v. United States |
366 U.S. 213 (1961) |
assessment of income tax on embezzled funds |
| McGowan v. Maryland |
366 U.S. 420 (1961) |
constitutionality of laws with religious origins but secular purposes |
| Braunfeld v. Brown |
366 U.S. 599 (1961) |
constitutionality of Sabbath laws requiring Sunday closure of stores |
| Gallagher v. Crown Kosher Super Market of Massachusetts, Inc. |
366 U.S. 617 (1961) |
Massachusetts blue laws upheld against challenge by Kosher grocery store |
| Jarecki v. G.D. Searle & Co. |
367 U.S. 303 (1961) |
using noscitur a sociis to interpret the Excess Profits Tax Act of 1950 |
| Torcaso v. Watkins |
367 U.S. 488 (1961) |
oaths, religious test, First Amendment |
| Poe v. Ullman |
367 U.S. 497 (1961) |
ripeness to challenge statute banning contraceptives |
| Mapp v. Ohio |
367 U.S. 643 (1961) |
search and seizure, exclusionary rule |
| Hamilton v. Alabama |
368 U.S. 52 (1961) |
Absence of defendant's counsel at the time of his arraignment violated his rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| Hoyt v. Florida |
368 U.S. 57 (1961) |
all-male jury in a woman's murder trial did not violate Fourteenth Amendment |
| Oyler v. Boles |
368 U.S. 448 (1962) |
habitual criminal sentencing and due process |
| Fong Foo v. United States |
369 U.S. 141 (1962) |
double jeopardy against federal courts |
| Baker v. Carr |
369 U.S. 186 (1962) |
reapportionment issues |
| Goldblatt v. Hempstead |
369 U.S. 590 (1962) |
due process, takings clause, safety regulations |
| Engel v. Vitale |
370 U.S. 421 (1962) |
school prayer |
| MANual Enterprises v. Day |
370 U.S. 478 (1962) |
magazine containing nude photographs of men not considered obscene |
| Jones v. Cunningham |
371 U.S. 236 (1963) |
state prison inmates have the right to petition for habeas corpus |
| Wong Sun v. United States |
371 U.S. 471 (1963) |
fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine in a narcotics case |
| Schlude v. Commissioner |
372 U.S. 128 (1963) |
what income must be included for income tax purposes when accrual method of accounting is used |
| Edwards v. South Carolina |
372 U.S. 229 (1963) |
First Amendment, protest marches at state capital |
| Gideon v. Wainwright |
372 U.S. 335 (1963) |
right to counsel |
| Douglas v. California |
372 U.S. 353 (1963) |
Fourteenth Amendment; right of poor defendants to criminal court appeals |
| Gray v. Sanders |
372 U.S. 368 (1963) |
“one man, one vote” |
| Gibson v. Florida Legislative Investigation Committee |
372 U.S. 539 (1963) |
requiring person divulge information contained in an organization's membership lists violates freedom of association under First Amendment |
| Ferguson v. Skrupa |
372 U.S. 726 (1963) |
substantive due process, economic liberties |
| Brady v. Maryland |
373 U.S. 83 (1963) |
exculpatory evidence and due process |
| Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Paul |
373 U.S. 132 (1963) |
Preemption, Dormant Commerce Clause |
| Silver v. New York Stock Exchange |
373 U.S. 341 (1963) |
duty of self-regulation imposed upon the New York Stock Exchange by the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 did not exempt it from the antitrust laws |
| Ker v. California |
374 U.S. 23 (1963) |
incorporation of the Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search & seizure against the states |
| Abington School District v. Schempp |
374 U.S. 203 (1963) |
constitutionality of mandatory bible reading in public schools |
| Sherbert v. Verner |
374 U.S. 398 (1963) |
strict scrutiny for religiously-based discrimination in unemployment compensation |
| England v. Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners |
375 U.S. 411 (1964) |
refining procedures for Pullman abstention from deciding issues of state law |
| Wesberry v. Sanders |
376 U.S. 1 (1964) |
“one man, one vote” |
| Compco Corp. v. Day-Brite Lighting, Inc. |
376 U.S. 234 (1964) |
preemption of state unfair competition laws which restrict sale of unpatented items |
| Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Stiffel Co. |
376 U.S. 225 (1964) |
preemption of state unfair competition laws which restrict sale of unpatented items, decided same day as Compco Corp. v. Day-Brite Lighting, Inc. |
| New York Times Co. v. Sullivan |
376 U.S. 254 (1964) |
freedom of speech, libel |
| Banco Nacional de Cuba v. Sabbatino |
376 U.S. 398 (1964) |
jurisdiction of federal courts over acts of foreign countries; act of state doctrine |
| Schneider v. Rusk |
377 U.S. 163 (1964) |
Naturalized U.S. citizens have the right to return to and reside in their native countries, and retain their U.S. citizenship, even if they never return to the United States |
| Massiah v. United States |
377 U.S. 201 (1964) |
Sixth Amendment prohibition on police speaking to suspect represented by counsel |
| Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County |
377 U.S. 218 (1964) |
closing the local school and giving white students vouchers to attend schools outside of the county was unconstitutional under the equal protection clause |
| Wilbur-Ellis Co. v. Kuther |
377 U.S. 422 (1964) |
extension of doctrine of repair and reconstruction to enhancement of device's function |
| Reynolds v. Sims |
377 U.S. 533 (1964) |
“one man, one vote” (state senates) |
| Malloy v. Hogan |
378 U.S. 1 (1964) |
Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination was applicable within state courts as well as federal courts |
| Griffin v. Maryland |
378 U.S. 130 (1964) |
segregation protests |
| Barr v. City of Columbia |
378 U.S. 146 (1964) |
due process and ex post facto law |
| Robinson v. Florida |
378 U.S. 153 (1964) |
segregation protests |
| Jacobellis v. Ohio |
378 U.S. 184 (1964) |
“I know [obscenity] when I see it[.]” – Justice Potter Stewart |
| Bell v. Maryland |
378 U.S. 226 (1964) |
segregation protests |
| Bouie v. City of Columbia |
378 U.S. 347 (1964) |
due process and ex post facto law |
| United States v. Continental Can Co. |
378 U.S. 441 (1964) |
antitrust |
| Escobedo v. Illinois |
378 U.S. 478 (1964) |
right to remain silent |
| Cooper v. Pate |
378 U.S. 546 (1964) |
The court ruled for the first time that state prison inmates have the standing to sue in federal court to address their grievances under the Civil Rights Act of 1871. |
| Beck v. Ohio |
379 U.S. 89 (1964) |
probable cause and searches incident to a lawful arrest |
| McLaughlin v. Florida |
379 U.S. 184 (1964) |
striking down an anti-miscegenation law aimed at prevent cohabitation of interracial couples |
| Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States |
379 U.S. 241 (1964) |
interstate commerce, civil rights, public accommodations |
| Katzenbach v. McClung |
379 U.S. 294 (1964) |
civil rights and interstate commerce, decided same day as Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States |
| Stanford v. Texas |
379 U.S. 476 (1965) |
Fourth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, Unconstitutionality of State issued general warrants |
| Cox v. Louisiana |
379 U.S. 536 (1965) |
First Amendment, "breach of the peace" statutes |
| Freedman v. Maryland |
380 U.S. 51 (1965) |
First Amendment, motion picture censorship |
| United States v. Seeger |
380 U.S. 163 (1965) |
definition of religion for a military draft exemption |
| Swain v. Alabama |
380 U.S. 202 (1965) |
use of struck jury |
| Hanna v. Plumer |
380 U.S. 460 (1965) |
interpretation of the Erie Doctrine, Civil Procedure |
| Dombrowski v. Pfister |
380 U.S. 479 (1965) |
federal injunction against state criminal trial for subversion |
| Harman v. Forssenius |
380 U.S. 528 (1965) |
Virginia's partial repeal of the poll tax violated 24th Amendment |
| Griffin v. California |
380 U.S. 609 (1965) |
prosecutor commenting on a defendant's refusal to testify violates the defendant's Fifth Amendment rights |
| One 1958 Plymouth Sedan v. Pennsylvania |
380 U.S. 693 (1965) |
evidence which is obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment may not be relied on to sustain a civil forfeiture |
| Griswold v. Connecticut |
381 U.S. 479 (1965) |
privacy, birth control |
| Estes v. Texas |
381 U.S. 532 (1965) |
overturning Billy Sol Estes conviction on 14th Amendment due process grounds due to pretrial publicity |
| Lamont v. Postmaster General |
381 U.S. 301 (1965) |
Declared unconstitutional a Federal statute requiring that addressees of "Communist political propaganda" affirmatively indicate their request to receive such mailings |
| Albertson v. Subversive Activities Control Board |
382 U.S. 70 (1965) |
Communist Party of the United States of America members could not be required to register with the government under the Fifth Amendment |
| Graham v. John Deere Co. |
383 U.S. 1 (1966) |
nonobviousness as a condition of patentability |
| Baxstrom v. Herold |
383 U.S. 107 (1966) |
Prisoners committed to civil mental institutions have a right to a hearing to determine whether or not they are in fact mentally disordered. |
| Brown v. Louisiana |
383 U.S. 131 (1966) |
first amendment, right to protest |
| South Carolina v. Katzenbach |
383 U.S. 301 (1966) |
Voting Rights Act, Fifteenth Amendment |
| Memoirs v. Massachusetts |
383 U.S. 413 (1966) |
obscenity |
| Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections |
383 U.S. 663 (1966) |
poll taxes are unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause |
| United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs |
383 U.S. 715 (1966) |
federal court jurisdiction over pendent claims |
| United States v. Price |
383 U.S. 787 (1966) |
the Mississippi civil rights workers murders |
| Sheppard v. Maxwell |
384 U.S. 333 (1966) |
the Sam Sheppard case, defendant's right to fair trial vs. freedom of the press |
| Miranda v. Arizona |
384 U.S. 436 (1966) |
self-incrimination (“right to remain silent”) |
| Federal Trade Commission v. Dean Foods Co. |
384 U.S. 597 (1966) |
federal agencies can use the All Writs Act to seek an injunction against a threatened action that will substantially interfere with the agency’s performance of its statutory duty |
| Katzenbach v. Morgan |
384 U.S. 641 (1966) |
voting rights, Section 5 power |
| Schmerber v. California |
384 U.S. 757 (1966) |
state can take blood sample from a suspect without his consent, without violating his Fourth Amendment rights |
| Garrity v. New Jersey |
385 U.S. 493 (1967) |
rights of police officers against self-incrimination |
| Whitus v. Georgia |
385 U.S. 545 (1967) |
racial discrimination in jury selection |
| Redrup v. New York |
386 U.S. 767 (1967) |
striking down state power to censor written works of fiction |
| In Re Gault |
387 U.S. 1 (1967) |
due process, juveniles |
| Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner |
387 U.S. 136 (1967) |
reviewability of administrative decisions |
| Toilet Goods Association, Inc. v. Gardner |
387 U.S. 158 (1967) |
ripeness in the context of judicial review of administrative decisions |
| Afroyim v. Rusk |
387 U.S. 253 (1967) |
federal government cannot strip a person of his citizenship |
| Reitman v. Mulkey |
387 U.S. 369 (1967) |
states may repeal laws providing protection against racial discrimination by Amending their state Constitution of referendum if their immediate objective is neutral and not to facilitate private racism |
| Loving v. Virginia |
388 U.S. 1 (1967) |
state laws banning interracial marriage (anti-miscegenation laws) |
| Berger v. New York |
388 U.S. 41 (1967) |
Telephone tapping in a bribery case, Fourth Amendment |
| Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts |
388 U.S. 130 (1967) |
libel; effect of Sullivan on private figures |
| United States v. Wade |
388 U.S. 218 (1967) |
no police lineup without counsel |
| Gilbert v. California |
388 U.S. 263 (1967) |
handwriting |
| United States v. Robel |
389 U.S. 258 (1967) |
First Amendment, right of association |
| Prima Paint Corp. v. Flood & Conklin Mfg. Co. |
388 U.S. 395 (1967) |
Separability principle: challenges to enforceability of contracts with arbitration clauses must be decided by arbitrator unless clause itself is challenged |
| Katz v. United States |
389 U.S. 347 (1967) |
wiretapping as search and seizure |
| Zschernig v. Miller |
389 U.S. 429 (1968) |
foreign relations and state property law preventing inheritance by nonresident aliens |
| Mora v. McNamara |
389 U.S. 934 (1967) |
denial of certiorari in a case questioning the legality of the Vietnam War |
| Haynes v. United States |
390 U.S. 85 (1968) |
Compulsory firearm registration as self-incrimination |
| Provident Tradesmens Bank & Trust Co. v. Patterson |
390 U.S. 102 (1968) |
indispensable parties under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure |
| Albrecht v. Herald Co. |
390 U.S. 145 (1968) |
minimum price agreements between wholesalers and franchisees unlawful under the Sherman Act |
| Avery v. Midland County |
390 U.S. 474 (1968) |
local government districts must conform to "one man, one vote" |
| Levy v. Louisiana |
391 U.S. 68 (1968) |
An illegitimate child may still sue on behalf of a deceased parent; to deny them this right violates the Fourteenth Amendment |
| Duncan v. Louisiana |
391 U.S. 145 (1968) |
selective incorporation, trial by jury |
| United States v. O'Brien |
391 U.S. 367 (1968) |
free speech, burning draft cards |
| Green v. County School Board of New Kent County |
391 U.S. 430 (1968) |
"freedom-of-choice" desegregation plan held unconstitutional |
| Witherspoon v. Illinois |
391 U.S. 510 (1968) |
constitutional status of a death-qualified jury |
| Pickering v. Board of Education |
391 U.S. 563 (1968) |
public employees' free speech rights |
| Terry v. Ohio |
392 U.S. 1 (1968) |
search and seizure, power of police to stop and frisk suspicious persons |
| Flast v. Cohen |
392 U.S. 83 (1968) |
taxpayer standing |
| United States v. Southwestern Cable Co. |
392 U.S. 157 (1968) |
Administrative law |
| King v. Smith |
392 U.S. 309 (1968) |
Aid to Families with Dependent Children cannot be denied to families of qualifying children based on a substitute father |
| Jones v. Mayer |
392 U.S. 409 (1968) |
housing discrimination |
| Epperson v. Arkansas |
393 U.S. 97 (1968) |
teaching of evolution in conjunction with creationism |
| Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District |
393 U.S. 503 (1969) |
freedom of speech in public schools |
| Shuttlesworth v. Birmingham |
394 U.S. 147 (1969) |
overbreadth of local ordinance used by city officials to ban civil rights march |
| Stanley v. Georgia |
394 U.S. 557 (1969) |
private possession of obscene material protected under First Amendment |
| Street v. New York |
394 U.S. 576 (1969) |
free speech and flag burning |
| Shapiro v. Thompson |
394 U.S. 618 (1969) |
Right to travel |
| Leary v. United States |
395 U.S. 6 (1969) |
Marihuana Tax Act ruled unconstitutional under the Fifth Amendment |
| Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC |
395 U.S. 367 (1969) |
Fairness Doctrine, broadcaster responsibilities, freedom of speech |
| Brandenburg v. Ohio |
395 U.S. 444 (1969) |
freedom of speech, incitement to riot |
| Powell v. McCormack |
395 U.S. 486 (1969) |
political question doctrine, justiciability |
| Kramer v. Union School District |
395 U.S. 621 (1969) |
right to vote in a special election district |
| Lear, Inc. v. Adkins |
395 U.S. 653 (1969) |
overturning the doctrine of licensee estoppel in U.S. patent law |
| Chimel v. California |
395 U.S. 752 (1969) |
search and seizure incident to arrest |
| Benton v. Maryland |
395 U.S. 784 (1969) |
double jeopardy |
