List of landmark court decisions in the United States by year

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To make it easier to identify trends, this page rearranges the Wikipedia page List of landmark court decisions in the United States into chronological order with cases grouped by Supreme Court justice (beginning with the Marshall Court). Following the case description is the category in which this case can be found on the original page. Within each year, cases are sorted by the United States Reports volume and page.

Contents

Seven cases are listed twice since they made landmark changes in two different categories. [a]

Early years (1789–1800)

1793

1796

Marshall Court (1801–1835)

1803

1804

1810

1812

1816

1817

1819

1821

1823

1824

1832

1833

1834

Taney Court (1836–1864)

1842

1849

1852

1857

1859

Chase Court (1864–1873)

1866

1868

1869

1871

1873

Waite Court (1874–1888)

1876

1879

1880

1883

1884

1886

Fuller Court (1888–1910)

1889

1890

1895

1896

1897

1898

1900

1901

1902

1903

1905

1906

1907

1908

White Court (1910–1921)

1911

1914

1915

1918

1920

1921

Taft Court (1921–1930)

1922

1923

1925

1926

1927

1928

Hughes Court (1930–1941)

1931

1932

1933

1935

1936

1937

1938

1939

1940

1941

Stone Court (1941–1946)

1942

1943

1944

1945

Vinson Court (1946–1953)

1946

1947

1948

1950

1951

1952

Warren Court (1953–1969)

1954

1955

1956

1957

1958

1959

1960

1961

1962

1963

1964

1965

1966

1967

1968

1969

Burger Court (1969–1986)

1970

1971

1972

1973

1974

1975

1976

1977

1978

1979

1980

1982

1983

1984

1985

1986

Rehnquist Court (1986–2005)

1987

1988

1989

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

Roberts Court (2005–present)

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

See also

Notes

  1. These 7 cases are listed twice since they made landmark changes in two different categories:
    • United States v. Wheeler (1920)
    • New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co. (1938)
    • Glasser v. United States (1942)
    • Reid v. Covert (1957)
    • One, Inc. v. Olesen (1958)
    • Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States (1964)
    • Ford v. Wainwright (1986)
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Though not decided by the Supreme Court, this case is listed by year along with cases from the Supreme Court.

References

  1. Laura Langer, Judicial Review in State Supreme Courts: A Comparative Study (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002), p. 4
  2. Sundara Rajan, Mira T. (2011). Moral Rights: Principles, Practice and New Technology. Oxford University Press. p. 142. ISBN   978-0-19-539031-5.
  3. Brossard, Dominique; Shanahan, James; Clint Nesbitt, T. (2007). The Media, the Public and Agricultural Biotechnology. ISBN   9781845932039.
  4. "Diamond v. Chakrabarty: A Retrospective on 25 Years of Biotech Patents" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on January 22, 2016. Retrieved December 3, 2016.
  5. "Diamond v. Chakrabarty, 447 U.S. 303 (1980)". Justia Law. Archived from the original on January 7, 2012. Retrieved July 30, 2023.
  6. Selya, Bruce M. (August 22, 2008). "United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review Case No. 08-01 In Re Directives [redacted text] Pursuant to Section 105B of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act" (PDF). United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review (via the Federation of American Scientists). Archived (PDF) from the original on August 3, 2019. Retrieved July 15, 2013.