Ex parte Wilson , 114 U.S. 417 (decided March 30, 1885): crime punishable by years of hard labor is a Fifth Amendment “infamous crime”...

West Coast Hotels v. Parrish , 300 U.S. 379 (decided March 29, 1937): The Big Switch by Justice Roberts, breaking with the “Four...

Krulewitch v. United States , 336 U.S. 440 (decided March 28, 1949): Krulewitch and a woman brought another woman across state lines for...

<i>United States v. Cruikshank</i>, 92 U.S. 542 (decided March 27, 1876): The Constitution does not guarantee a right to peacefully...

Baker v. Carr , 369 U.S. 186 (decided March 26, 1962): federal courts have jurisdiction over suits alleging disproportionate...

United States v. Quality Stores, Inc. , 572 U.S. 141 (decided March 25, 2014): must withhold FICA from severance pay because it’s “wages”...

Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections , 383 U.S. 663 (decided March 24, 1966): poll tax violates Equal Protection (though literacy tests...

Comcast Corp. v. National Ass’n of African American-Owned Media , 589 U.S. 327 (decided March 23, 2020): owner of African-American owned...

Eisenstadt v. Baird , 405 U.S. 438 (decided March 22, 1972): Massachusetts statute prohibiting sale of contraceptives to single people...

A Book Named “John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure” v. Massachusetts , 383 U.S. 413 (decided March 21, 1966): The book is more...

Calder v. Jones , 465 U.S. 783 (decided March 20, 1984): California court had jurisdiction to hear suit by well-known California...

Austin v. New Hampshire , 420 U.S. 656 (decided March 19, 1975): New Hampshire commuter tax applicable only to out-of-state residents...

Gideon v. Wainwright , 372 U.S. 335 (decided March 18, 1963): “If you can’t afford a lawyer, one will be appointed for you.” (In high...

Patton v. Brady , 184 U.S. 608 (decided March 17, 1902): upholding extra tax on already taxed goods (on manufactured tobacco under War...

Fletcher v. Peck , 10 U.S. 87 (decided March 16, 1810): awarding land to purchaser in good faith, unaware that seller had obtained it by...

Bakery Sales Drivers Local Union No. 33 v. Wagshal , 333 U.S. 437 (decided March 15, 1948): A deli changed bakeries because its drivers...

Sicurella v. United States , 348 U.S. 385 (decided March 14, 1955): Jehovah’s Witness can be awarded conscientious objector status even...

Klopfer v. North Carolina , 386 U.S. 213 (decided March 13, 1967): prosecutor can’t say “nolle prosequi” (decide not to go forward) and...

Hale v. Henkel , 201 U.S. 43 (decided March 12, 1906): rejecting witness’s claim of Fifth Amendment privilege in federal grand jury...

Walker v. Wainwright , 390 U.S. 335 (decided March 11, 1968): defendant can seek habeas relief as to conviction as to one charge (here,...