Themes & Threads: SCOTUS
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Source: 60 U.S. 393, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/60/393. Mr. Chief Justice Taney delivered the opinion of the court.…
Roe v. Wade
Source: 410 U.S. 113. Justice Blackmun Delivered the Opinion of the Court, Joined by Chief…
Muller v. Oregon
Source: 208 U.S. 412 (1908). Mr. Justice Brewer Delivered the Opinion of the Court The…
Minor v. Happersett
Source: 88 U.S. 162. Footnotes added by the Editor are preceded by “Ed. note.” The…
Downes v. Bidwell
Source: Downes v. Bidwell, 182 U.S. 244 (1901), available at https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/182/244/. We have removed in-text references to…
Worcester v. Georgia
Source: 31 U.S. 515, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/31/515#writing-USSC_CR_0031_0515_ZO. Mr. Chief Justice MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court.…
Matal v. Tam
Source: 582 U.S. https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/15-1293. JUSTICE ALITO announced the judgment of the Court and delivered the…
Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association
Source: 564 U.S. 786, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/08-1448.ZS.html. JUSTICE SCALIA delivered the opinion of the Court. We consider…
Snyder v. Phelps
Source: 562 U.S. 443, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/09-751.ZS.html. CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court. .…
Morse v. Frederick
Source: 551 U.S. 393, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/06-278.ZS.html. Chief Justice Roberts delivered the opinion of the Court. .…
Virginia v. Black
Source: 538 U.S. 343, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/01-1107.ZS.html. JUSTICE O'CONNOR announced the judgment of the Court and delivered…
Boy Scouts of America v. Dale
Source: 530 U.S. 640, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/99-699.ZO.html. CHIEF JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court. Petitioners[1]…
Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union
Source: 521 U.S. 844, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/521/844. JUSTICE STEVENS delivered the opinion of the Court. At issue…
Texas v. Johnson
Source: 491 U.S. 397, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/491/397. JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court. . .…
Bethel School District v. Fraser
Source: 478 U.S. 675, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/478/675. CHIEF JUSTICE BURGER delivered the opinion of the Court. We…
Roberts v. United States Jaycees
Source: 468 U.S. 609, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/468/609. JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court. This case…
Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation v. Public Service Commission
Source: 447 U.S. 557, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/447/557. This case presents the question whether a regulation of the…
Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation
Source: 438 U.S. 726, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/438/726. JUSTICE STEVENS delivered the opinion of the Court and an…
Miller v. California
Source: 413 U.S. 15, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/413/15. CHIEF JUSTICE BURGER delivered the opinion of the Court. This…
Branzburg v. Hayes
Source: 408 U.S. 665, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/408/665. Opinion of the Court by MR. JUSTICE WHITE, announced by…
New York Times Co. v. United States
Source: 403 U.S. 713, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/403/713. PER CURIAM We granted certiorari[1] in these cases in which…
Cohen v. California
Source: 403 U.S. 15, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/403/15. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the Court. This case…
Dennis v. United States
Source: 341 U.S. 494, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/341/494. CHIEF JUSTICE VINSON announced the judgment of the Court and…
Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire
Source: 315 U.S. 568, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/315/568. JUSTICE MURPHY delivered the opinion of the Court. Appellant, a…
Near v. Minnesota
Source: 283 U.S. 697, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/283/697. CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court. Chapter…
Gitlow v. New York
Source: 268 U.S. 652, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/268/652. JUSTICE SANFORD delivered the opinion of the Court. Benjamin Gitlow…
Abrams v. United States
Source: 250 U.S. 616, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/250/616. JUSTICE CLARKE delivered the opinion of the court. On a…
Schenck v. United States
Source: 249 U.S. 47, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/249/47. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court. This is an…
Gender and Equality
"The influence of woman is not limited to the domestic circle. Society is her empire."…
The Supreme Court: Core Cases
This volume presents 25 core decisions of the Supreme Court. Arranged in chronological order, they…
Religious Liberty: Core Court Cases
Amendment I. Ratified December 15, 1791 Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,…
Reynolds v. United States
Source: 98 U.S. 145 (1879), https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/98/145. We have omitted the concurring opinion by Justice Stephen J.…
Illinois ex rel. McCollum v. Board of Education of School District
Source: 396 Ill. 14, 71 N.E.2d 161, reversed, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/333/203. We have included excerpts of Justice…
Everson v. Board of Education of the Township of Ewing
Source: 330 U.S. 1 (1947), https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/330/1. We have included some footnotes from the opinion. Footnotes…
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
Source: 319 U.S. 586 (1943), https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/319/624. All footnotes added by the editors. JUSTICE JACKSON delivered…
Engel v. Vitale
Source: 370 U.S. 421, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/370/421. We include excerpts of Justice Black’s opinion for the Court.…
Sherbert v. Verner
Source: 374 U.S. 398, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/374/398. The Court decided the case 7–2. We have excerpted Justice…
Lemon v. Kurtzman
Source: 403 U.S. 602 (1971) https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/411/192. All footnotes added by the editors. CHIEF JUSTICE BURGER…
Wisconsin v. Yoder
Source: 406 U.S. 205 (1972); https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/406/205. We have excerpted the Court’s opinion and the dissent…
Widmar v. Vincent
Source: 454 U.S. 263, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/454/263. We include excerpts of Justice Powell’s opinion for the Court.…
Wallace v. Jaffree
Source: Wallace v. Jaffree, 472 U.S. 38, https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/472/38/. Footnotes added by the editors are preceded…
Lynch v. Donnelly
Source: 465 U.S. 668 (1984), https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/465/668.html. We include excerpts of Chief Justice Warren E. Burger’s…
Edwards v. Aguillard
Source: 482 U.S. 578 (1987), https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/482/578. We include excerpts of Justice William J. Brennan Jr.’s…
Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd., et al., Petitioners v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, et al.
Source: 584 U.S. ___ (2018), https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/16-111. Justice Thomas, with whom Justice Gorsuch joins, concurring in part and…
Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v Smith
Source: 494 U.S. 872 (1990), https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/494/872. We have included excerpts of Justice Scalia’s opinion for…
Zelman v. Simmons-Harris
Source: 536 U.S. 639 (2002) https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/00-1751.ZS.html. We omit Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist’s opinion for…
Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah
Source: 508 U.S. 520 (1993), https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/91-948.ZO.html. We include only excerpts of Justice Kennedy’s opinion for…
Lee v. Weisman
Source: 505 U.S. 577, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/505/577. We include excerpts from Justice Kennedy’s opinion for the court,…
Van Orden v. Perry
Source: 543 U.S. 677 (2005), https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/03-1500.ZO.html. We omit the opinion of the Court by Chief…
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