Dartmouth College v. Woodward , 17 U.S. 518 (decided February 2, 1819): state attempt to change existing charter of college to turn it...

Marbury v. Madison , 5 U.S. 137 (decided February 1, 1803): Marshall rules that the Court has no original jurisdiction to enforce a...

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R.R. Co. , 382 U.S. 423 (decided January 31, 1966): Arkansas...

Southern Pacific Co. v. Gallagher , 306 U.S. 167 (decided January 30, 1939): California’s Use Tax did not violate Dormant Commerce Clause...

Marchetti v. United States , 390 U.S. 39 (decided January 29, 1968): I didn’t know until I read this case that something can be against...

Gold v. United States , 352 U.S. 985 (decided January 28, 1957): defendant on trial for filing false affidavit stating he was not...

Adair v. United States , 208 U.S. 161 (decided January 27, 1908): Congress cannot criminalize sacking an interstate carrier employee for...

Crawford v. Nashville , 555 U.S. 271 (decided January 26, 2009): Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbids retaliation against an...

Montgomery v. Louisiana , 577 U.S. 190 (decided January 25, 2016): Miller v. Alabama , 2012, declaring that life without parole for...

Springer v. United States , 102 U.S. 586 (decided January 24, 1881): upholding federal income tax because it was not a “direct tax” such...

United States v. Jones , 565 U.S. 400 (decided January 23, 2012): attaching a GPS device to suspected drug dealer’s vehicle (actually his...

Roe v. Wade , 410 U.S. 113 (decided January 22, 1973): balancing interests of the state vs. privacy interest of mother, invalidates...

Citizens United v. Federal Election Comm’n , 558 U.S. 310 (decided January 21, 2010): Court disallows on First Amendment grounds any...

Nashville Milk Co. v. Carnation Co. , 355 U.S. 373 (decided January 20, 1958): Robinson-Patman Act (prohibiting underselling to destroy...

Patsone v. Pennsylvania , 232 U.S. 138 (decided January 19, 1914): upholds statute prohibiting foreign born non-citizens from killing...

Mistretta v. United States , 488 U.S. 361 (decided January 18, 1989): The Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 created the Sentencing Commission...

Jimmy Swaggart Ministries v. Board of Equalization of California , 493 U.S. 378 (decided January 17, 1990): generally applicable sales...

Garrity v. New Jersey , 385 U.S. 493 (decided January 16, 1967): police officers being questioned in connection with investigation of...

Berry v. Davis , 242 U.S. 468 (decided January 15, 1917): An Iowa statute authorized vasectomies on “idiots, feeble-minded, drunkards,...

Wong Sun v. United States , 371 U.S. 471 (decided January 14, 1963): the leading “fruit of the poisonous tree” case, where statements...