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| 96855622 | Marbury v Madison | Established judicial review, "midnight judges," John Marshall; power of the Supreme Court | |
| 96855623 | McCulloch v Maryland | Established national supremacy; established implied powers; use of elastic clause; state unable to tax federal institutions. | |
| 96855624 | Plessy v Ferguson | Established separate but equal | |
| 96858053 | Schenck v US | Oliver Wendell Holmes; Clear and Present Danger Test; shouting "fire" in a crowded theater, limits on speech, esp. in wartime | |
| 96858054 | Palko v Connecticut | Provided test for determining which parts of Bill of Rights should be federalized---those which are implicitly or explicitly necessary for liberty to exist. | |
| 96860685 | Gitlow v New York | Established precedent for federalizing Bill of Rights (applying them to the States); States cannot deny freedom of speech--protected through due process clause of 14th Amendment | |
| 96860686 | Brown v Board of Education (Topeka) | School segregation unconstitutional; segregation, psychological damaging to blacks, overturned separate but equal; use of 14th Amendment; judicial activism of Warren Court; unanimous decision | |
| 96861803 | Mapp v Ohio | Established exclusionary rule; illegally obtained evidence cannot be used in court; Warren Court's judicial activism | |
| 96864219 | Engel v Vitale | Prohibited state sponsored recitation of prayer in public schools by virtue of the 1st Amendment's establishment clause. Warren Court's judicial activism | |
| 96865080 | Baker v Carr | "One man-One vote" Ordered state legislative districts to be as near as equal as possible in population; Warren Court's judicial activism | |
| 96865081 | Gideon v Wainwright | Ordered States to provide lawyers for those unable to afford them in criminal proceedings. Warren Court's judicial activism | |
| 96888876 | Wesberry v Sanders | Ordered House districts to be as near equal in population as possible. | |
| 96888877 | Griswald v Connecticut | Established right of privacy through 4th and 9th amendments. Set a precedent for Roe v. Wade. | |
| 96888878 | Miranda v Arizona | Established Miranda warnings of counsel and silence. Must be given before questioning. Warren Court's Judicial activism in criminal rights | |
| 96893354 | Lemon v Kurtzman | Allowed states to provide textbooks and busing to students attending private religious schools. Established 3-part test to determine if establishment clause is violated: nonsecular purpose, advances/inhibits religion, excessive entanglement with government. | |
| 96896825 | Roe v Wade | Established national abortion guidelines; trimester guidelines: no state interference in 1st, state may regulate to protect health of mother in 2nd, state may regulate to protect health of unborn child in 3rd. Inferred from right of privacy estab. in Griswald v. Conn. | |
| 96898484 | US v Nixon | Allowed for executive privilege, but not in criminal cases; "Even President is not above the law," Watergate. | |
| 96898485 | Buckley v Valeo | 1st Amendment protects campaign spending; legislatures can limit contributions, but not how much one spends of his own money on campaigns. | |
| 96900543 | UC Regents v Bakke | Alan Bakke and UC Davis Medical School; strict quotas unconst.,but states may allow race to be taken into account as ONE factor in admissions decisions. Bakke admitted. | |
| 96900544 | Texas v Johnson | Struck down Texas law that banned flag burning, which is a protected form of symbolic speech. | |
| 96900545 | Planned Parenthood v Casey | States can regulate abortion, but not with regulations that impose "undue burden" upon women; did not overturn Roe v. Wade, but gave states more leeway in regulating abortion (e.g., 24-hour waiting period, parental consent for minors) | |
| 96903742 | Shaw v Reno | No racial gerrymandering; race cannot be the sole or predominant factor in redrawing legislative boundaries; majority-minority districts. | |
| 96903743 | US v Lopez | Gun free School Zones Act exceeded Congress' authority to regulate interstate commerce. | |
| 96903744 | Clinton v NY | Banned presidential use of line item veto. | |
| 96903745 | Bush v Gore | Use of 14th Amendment's equal protection clause to stop the Florida recount election of 2000. | |
| 96903746 | Ashcroft v ACLU | Struck down a federal ban on "Virtual" child pornography. | |
| 96903747 | Lawrence v Texas | Using right of privacy, struck down Texas law banning sodomy. | |
| 96903748 | Gratz v Bollinger | Struck down use of "bonus points" for race in undergrad admissions at University of Michigan. |
