Introduction

Though not the case for much of American constitutional history, today the U.S. Supreme Court is seen as the supreme interpreter of the U.S. Constitution. When Americans disagree over the meaning of the Constitution, they normally turn to the Court for adjudication and normally accept (even when they dislike) its constitutional judgments as authoritative.

This page features articles about U.S. Supreme Court cases.

Timeline of Landmark Cases

Landmark Case List (Chronological)

• Sample Case (2017)
• Hylton v. U.S. (1796)
• Marbury v. Madison (1803)
• McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
• Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
• Brown v. Maryland (1827)
• Luther v. Borden (1849)
• Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
• The Prize Cases (1863)
• Ex Parte McCardle (1869)
• Slaughterhouse Cases (1873) 
• Kidd v. Pearson (1888)
• United States v. E. C. Knight Co. (1895)
• Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan and Trust Co. (1895)
• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
• Lochner v. New York (1905)
• Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States (1911)
• Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918)
• Selective Draft Law Cases (1918)
• Adkins v. Children’s Hospital (1923)
• Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Mellon (1923)
• Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States (1935)
• National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation (1937)
• West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (1937)
• U.S. vs Carolene Products Co. (1938)
• Wickard v. Filburn (1942)
• Korematsu v. United States (1944)
• Brown v Board of Education (1954) 
• Cooper v. Aaron (1958)
• Baker v. Carr (1962)
• Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
• Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States (1964)
• Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
• Loving v. Virginia (1967)
• Flast v. Cohen (1968)
• Roe v. Wade (1973)
• DeFunis v. Odegaard (1974)
• Gregg v. Georgia (1976)
• South Dakota v. Dole (1987)
• United States v. Lopez (1995)
• United States v. Morrison (2000)
• Gonzalez v. Raich (2005)
• McDonald v. Chicago (2010)
• Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010)
• National Federation of Independent Businesses v. Sebelius (2012)
• Shelby County v. Holder (2013)

Landmark Case List (Alphabetical)

• Brown v. Maryland (1827)
• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
• Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
• Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
• Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
• Gonzalez v. Raich (2005)
• Gregg v. Georgia (1976)
• Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918)
• Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States (1964)
• Hylton v. U.S. (1796)
• Kidd v. Pearson (1888)
• Korematsu v. United States (1944)
• Loving v. Virginia (1967)
• Marbury v. Madison (1803)
• McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
• McDonald v. Chicago (2010)
• Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
• National Federation of Independent Businesses v. Sebelius (2012)
• National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation (1937)
• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
• Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan and Trust Co. (1895)
• Roe v. Wade (1973)
• Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States (1935)
• Selective Draft Law Cases (1918)
• Shelby County v. Holder (2013)
• South Dakota v. Dole (1987)
• Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States (1911)
• The Prize Cases (1863)
• United States v. E. C. Knight Co. (1895)
• United States v. Lopez (1995)
• United States v. Morrison (2000)
• West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (1937)
• Wickard v. Filburn (1942)

Complete Case List (Chronological)

• Hylton v. U.S. (1796)
• Marbury v. Madison (1803)
• McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
• Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
• Brown v. Maryland (1827)
• Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
• The Prize Cases (1863)
• Ex Parte Milligan (1866)
• United States v. Cruikshank (1876)
• The Civil Rights Cases (1883)
• Coe v.Errol (1886)
• Kidd v. Pearson (1888)
• Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan and Trust Co. (1895)
• United States v. E. C. Knight Co. (1895)
• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
• McCray v. United States (1904)
• Muller v. Oregon (1908)
• Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States (1911)
• Bunting v. Oregon (1917)
• Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918)
• Selective Draft Law Cases (1918)
• Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co. (1922)
• Springer v. Wallace (1922)
• Stafford v. Wallace (1922)
• Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States (1935)
• Panama Co. Refining v. Ryan (1935)
• Carter v. Carter Coal Co. (1936)
• West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (1937)
• National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation (1937)
• United States v. Darby Lumber Company (1941)
• Wickard v. Filburn (1942)
• Korematsu v. United States (1944)
• Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952)
• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
• Cooper v. Aaron (1958)
• Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
• Reynolds v. Sims (1964)
• Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States (1964)
• Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
• Loving v. Virginia (1967)
• Powell v. McCormack (1969)
• Roe v. Wade (1973)
• Gregg v. Georgia (1976)
• South Dakota v. Dole (1987)
• New York v. United States (1992)
• United States v. Lopez (1995)
• Medellin v. Texas (2000)
• United States v. Morrison (2000)
• Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2004)
• Gonzalez v. Raich (2005)
• McDonald v. Chicago (2010)
• Arizona v. U.S. (2012)
• National Federation of Independent Businesses v. Sebelius (2012)
• Shelby County v. Holder (2013)
• Hollingsworth v. Perry (2013)
• Evenwel v. Abbott (2016)

Complete Case List (Alphabetical)

• Arizona v. U.S. (2012)
• Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co. (1922)
• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
• Brown v. Maryland (1827)
• Carter v. Carter Coal Co. (1936)
• Coe v.Errol (1886)
• Cooper v. Aaron (1958)
• Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
• Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
• Gonzalez v. Raich (2005)
• Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2004)
• Gonzalez v. Raich (2005)
• Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
• Gregg v. Georgia (1976)
• Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918)
• Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States (1964)
• Hollingsworth v. Perry (2013)
• Hylton v. U.S. (1796)
• Kidd v. Pearson (1888)
• Korematsu v. United States (1944)
• Loving v. Virginia (1967)
• Marbury v. Madison (1803)
• McCray v. United States (1904)
• McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
• McDonald v. Chicago (2010)
• Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
• Muller v. Oregon (1908)
• Medellin v. Texas (2000)
• National Federation of Independent Businesses v. Sebelius (2012)
• National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation (1937)
• New York v. United States (1992)
• Panama Co. Refining v. Ryan (1935)
• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
• Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan and Trust Co. (1895)
• Powell v. McCormack (1969)
• Roe v. Wade (1973)
• Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States (1935)
• Selective Draft Law Cases (1918)
• Shelby County v. Holder (2013)
• South Dakota v. Dole (1987)
• Springer v. Wallace (1922)
• Stafford v. Wallace (1922)
• Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States (1911)
• The Prize Cases (1863)
• United States v. Cruikshank (1876)
• United States v. Darby Lumber Company (1941)
• United States v. E. C. Knight Co. (1895)
• United States v. Lopez (1995)
• United States v. Morrison (2000)
• West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (1937)
• Wickard v. Filburn (1942)