| 1971-06-30 | Supreme Court Rules 6-3 for Press Freedom in Pentagon Papers Case - Rejects Nixon Administration Prior Restraint Attempt
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · New York Times · Washington Post · Daniel Ellsberg · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1968-06-17 | Supreme Court Rules 1866 Civil Rights Act Bans Private Housing Discrimination
3 src U.S. Supreme Court | | confirmed |
| 1966-06-13 | Miranda v. Arizona Decision Requiring Rights Warnings Sparks Law Enforcement Backlash and Conservative Law-and-Order Politics
4 src U.S. Supreme Court · Earl Warren · Richard Nixon |
| confirmed |
| 1957-06-17 | Yates v. United States Limits Smith Act Prosecutions, Supreme Court Begins Retreat from McCarthyism
6 src Earl Warren · U.S. Supreme Court · Communist Party USA · Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 1956-11-13 | Supreme Court Affirms Montgomery Bus Segregation Unconstitutional, Boycott Ends in Victory
3 src Martin Luther King Jr. · U.S. Supreme Court · NAACP Legal Defense Fund | | confirmed |
| 1955-05-31 | Brown II Orders Desegregation with "All Deliberate Speed," Enabling Decade of Resistance
3 src Earl Warren · U.S. Supreme Court · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · Thurgood Marshall |
| confirmed |
| 1954-05-17 | Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Decision Declares School Segregation Unconstitutional
3 src Earl Warren · Thurgood Marshall · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · U.S. Supreme Court | | confirmed |
| 1952-06-02 | Youngstown Sheet & Tube v. Sawyer: Supreme Court Strikes Steel Seizure; Jackson Concurrence Becomes Canonical Executive-Power Framework
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Hugo Black · Harry S. Truman · Fred Vinson |
| confirmed |
| 1951-06-04 | Dennis v. United States Supreme Court Upholds Smith Act Convictions, Criminalizes Political Advocacy
3 src Fred Vinson · U.S. Supreme Court · Communist Party USA · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1948-05-03 | Supreme Court Rules Racially Restrictive Housing Covenants Unenforceable
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Fred Vinson · NAACP Legal Defense Fund | | confirmed |
| 1944-12-18 | Korematsu v. United States - Supreme Court Upholds Japanese Internment
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Hugo Black · Frank Murphy · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1944-04-03 | Smith v. Allwright: Supreme Court Strikes Down White Primaries, Opening Democratic Party to Black Voters
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Thurgood Marshall · NAACP Legal Defense Fund |
| confirmed |
| 1942-07-02 | FDR Proclamation 2561 Creates Military Tribunal for Nazi Saboteurs; Ex parte Quirin Becomes Cited Precedent for Post-9/11 Detention
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Supreme Court · Francis Biddle · J. Edgar Hoover |
| confirmed |
| 1936-12-21 | United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export: Sutherland Invents 'Sole Organ' Doctrine of Presidential Foreign-Affairs Supremacy
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · George Sutherland · Franklin D. Roosevelt · John Marshall |
| confirmed |
| 1935-05-27 | Humphrey's Executor v. United States: Supreme Court Limits Presidential Removal Power, Establishes Constitutional Predicate for Independent Agencies
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · George Sutherland · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Federal Trade Commission |
| confirmed |
| 1927-05-02 | Supreme Court Endorses Forced Sterilization in Buck v. Bell Eugenics Decision
3 src U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 1927-04-11 | Supreme Court Applies Antitrust Law to Union Secondary Boycotts in Bedford Cut Stone
3 src George Sutherland · U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 1926-10-25 | Myers v. United States: Taft Court Reads Presidential Removal Power Into Article II, Predicate for Later Unitary-Executive Claims
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · William Howard Taft · Woodrow Wilson · Louis Brandeis |
| confirmed |
| 1925-06-08 | Supreme Court Upholds Criminal Anarchy Conviction While Expanding Due Process
3 src U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 1925-05-25 | Supreme Court Reverses Coronado Decision, Opens Unions to Antitrust Liability
3 src William Howard Taft · U.S. Supreme Court · United Mine Workers of America |
| confirmed |
| 1923-04-09 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Minimum Wage Law for Women in Adkins Decision
3 src George Sutherland · U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 1922-06-05 | Supreme Court Rules Unincorporated Unions Can Be Sued in Coronado Coal Case
3 src William Howard Taft · U.S. Supreme Court · United Mine Workers of America |
| confirmed |
| 1922-05-15 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Child Labor Tax as Unconstitutional
3 src William Howard Taft · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1921-12-19 | Supreme Court Invalidates Arizona Anti-Injunction Law in Truax v. Corrigan
3 src William Howard Taft · U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 1921-01-03 | Supreme Court Guts Clayton Act Labor Protections in Duplex Printing Decision
3 src U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 1920-03-01 | Supreme Court Dismisses U.S. Steel Antitrust Case, Ruling Size Alone Not Illegal - Enforcement Ends Until 1945
4 src U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Steel Corporation |
| confirmed |
| 1918-06-03 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Child Labor Law in Hammer v. Dagenhart
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. |
| confirmed |
| 1915-06-21 | Guinn v. United States: Supreme Court Strikes Down Grandfather Clauses as Fifteenth Amendment Violation
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice Edward White · Oklahoma Legislature · NAACP |
| confirmed |
| 1911-05-29 | Supreme Court Orders American Tobacco Breakup, Applying Rule of Reason to Tobacco Trust
6 src U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice Edward White · American Tobacco Company |
| confirmed |
| 1911-05-15 | Standard Oil Breakup's Paradox - Rockefeller's Wealth Triples as Fragmented Companies Reconsolidate
9 src John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil Company · U.S. Supreme Court | | confirmed |
| 1911-05-15 | Supreme Court Orders Standard Oil Breakup in Landmark Antitrust Decision
4 src U.S. Supreme Court · John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil Company · Chief Justice Edward White |
| confirmed |
| 1908-02-03 | Supreme Court Loewe v. Lawlor Decision Holds Union Members Personally Liable for Damages
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · American Federation of Labor |
| confirmed |
| 1905-04-17 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Labor Protections in Lochner v. New York
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. |
| confirmed |
| 1905-01-30 | Supreme Court Rules Against Beef Trust, Establishes Stream of Commerce Doctrine
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Theodore Roosevelt · Attorney General Philander Knox |
| confirmed |
| 1904-03-14 | Supreme Court Orders Northern Securities Dissolution in First Major Antitrust Victory
5 src U.S. Supreme Court · Theodore Roosevelt · J.P. Morgan · James J. Hill · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1903-04-27 | Giles v. Harris: Supreme Court Refuses to Enforce Black Voting Rights Against Alabama Constitution
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. · Alabama Legislature |
| confirmed |
| 1895-05-27 | Supreme Court In Re Debs Decision Upholds Federal Injunctions Against Strikes
5 src U.S. Supreme Court · Eugene V. Debs · Federal Judiciary · Corporate interests |
| confirmed |
| 1895-01-21 | U.S. v. E.C. Knight: Supreme Court Shields Sugar Trust and Eviscerates Antitrust Law
3 src U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 1892-01-04 | Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad v. Gibbes: Corporate Personhood Reaffirmed
2 src U.S. Supreme Court · South Carolina Legislature |
| confirmed |
| 1889-01-07 | Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway v. Beckwith: Corporate Personhood Doctrine Becomes Settled Law
3 src U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 1888-01-07 | Pembina Consolidated Silver Mining Co. v. Pennsylvania: Court Explicitly Affirms Corporate Personhood
3 src U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 1886-10-25 | Wabash v. Illinois: Supreme Court Shields Interstate Monopolies from Regulation
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Illinois Legislature |
| confirmed |
| 1886-05-10 | Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad: The Corporate Personhood Precedent That Never Was
5 src U.S. Supreme Court · Santa Clara County |
| confirmed |
| 1886-03-25 | Railroad Commission Cases: State Regulation Affirmed with Corporate Property Rights Caveat
3 src U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 1883-10-15 | Civil Rights Cases Strike Down 1875 Act, Legitimizing Jim Crow
4 src U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 1882-12-19 | Roscoe Conkling's Fraudulent Argument for Corporate Personhood in San Mateo County v. Southern Pacific
4 src U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 1877-03-01 | Munn v. Illinois: Supreme Court Affirms Public Power to Regulate Monopolies
5 src U.S. Supreme Court · Illinois Legislature |
| confirmed |
| 1876-03-27 | United States v. Cruikshank Guts Federal Civil Rights Enforcement
4 src U.S. Supreme Court | | confirmed |
| 1873-04-14 | Slaughterhouse Cases Gut Fourteenth Amendment Protections
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Louisiana Legislature |
| confirmed |
| 1857-03-06 | Dred Scott Decision Demonstrates Supreme Court Capture by Slave Power Through Political Collusion
4 src James Buchanan · U.S. Supreme Court | | confirmed |
| 1842-03-01 | Prigg v Pennsylvania Supreme Court Ruling Protects Slave Catchers and Enables Kidnapping
3 src U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 1839-07-02 | Amistad Captives Revolt and Win Freedom in Supreme Court, Exposing Slavery's Illegality
3 src John Quincy Adams · U.S. Supreme Court | | confirmed |
| 1832-03-03 | Supreme Court Rules Georgia Cannot Seize Cherokee Lands; Jackson Refuses to Enforce Decision
3 src John Marshall · Andrew Jackson · Cherokee Nation · Georgia · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1819-03-06 | McCulloch v. Maryland Establishes Federal Supremacy and Implied Powers, Protecting Second Bank from State Accountability
3 src John Marshall · U.S. Supreme Court · Second Bank of the United States · State of Maryland | | confirmed |
| 1810-03-16 | Fletcher v. Peck Establishes Judicial Protection for Fraudulent Contracts and Corrupt Land Deals
3 src John Marshall · U.S. Supreme Court · Georgia Legislature | | confirmed |
| 1803-02-24 | Marbury v. Madison Establishes Judicial Review and Supreme Court Power Expansion
3 src John Marshall · U.S. Supreme Court | | confirmed |