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This is a chronological list of notable cases decided by the United States Supreme Court during the tenures of Chief Justices John Jay, John Rutledge, Oliver Ellsworth, John Marshall, Roger Taney, Salmon P. Chase, Morrison Waite, Melville Fuller, Edward Douglass White, and William Howard Taft (October 19, 1789 through February 3, 1930).
- For later cases, see List of United States Supreme Court cases from the Hughes Court through the Burger Court and List of United States Supreme Court cases from the Rehnquist Court through the Roberts Court.
1789–1819
| Case name |
Citation |
Summary
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| Beginning of active duty of Chief Justice John Jay, October 19, 1789
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| Hayburn's Case |
2 U.S. 409 (1792) |
justiciability and separation of powers
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| Chisholm v. Georgia |
2 U.S. 419 (1793) |
first “major” case; federal jurisdiction over suits vs. states; state sovereign immunity
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| Beginning of active duty of Chief Justice John Rutledge, August 12, 1795
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| No major cases were decided by the Rutledge Court
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| Beginning of active duty of Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth, March 8, 1796
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| Hylton v. United States |
3 U.S. 171 (1796) |
tax on carriages
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| Hollingsworth v. Virginia |
3 U.S. 378 (1798) |
ratification of Eleventh Amendment, presidential approval is unnecessary for Constitutional amendment
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| Calder v. Bull |
3 U.S. 386 (1798) |
ex post facto clause applies to criminal, not civil cases
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| New York v. Connecticut |
4 U.S. 1 (1799) |
first original jurisdiction suit between two States
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| Beginning of active duty of Chief Justice John Marshall, February 4, 1801
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| Marbury v. Madison |
5 U.S. 137 (1803) |
judicial review of laws enacted by Congress
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| Stuart v. Laird |
5 U.S. 299 (1803) |
enforceability of rulings issued by judges who have since been removed from office
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| Ex parte Bollman |
8 U.S. 75 (1807) |
habeas corpus, definition of treason, Supreme Court's power to issue writs to circuit courts
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| Fletcher v. Peck |
10 U.S. 87 (1810) |
property rights
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| United States v. Hudson and Goodwin |
11 U.S. 32 (1812) |
Federal court jurisdiction over common law crimes
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| Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee |
14 U.S. 304 (1816) |
Loyalist property forfeiture, Supreme Court review of state court judgments
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| McCulloch v. Maryland |
17 U.S. 316 (1819) |
doctrine of implied powers
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| Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward |
17 U.S. 518 (1819) |
impairment of contracts
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1820–1839
1840–1859
1860–1879
1880–1899
| Case name |
Citation |
Summary
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| Strauder v. West Virginia |
100 U.S. 303 (1880) |
exclusion of blacks from juries
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| Egbert v. Lippmann |
104 U.S. 333 (1881) |
early case concerning the on-sale bar in patent law
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United States v. Harris (the Ku Klux Case) |
106 U.S. 629 (1883) |
No Congressional power to pass ordinary criminal statutes
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| Civil Rights Cases |
109 U.S. 3 (1883) |
power of federal government to prohibit racial discrimination by private parties
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| Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony |
111 U.S. 53 (1884) |
copyrightability of photographs
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| Head Money Cases |
112 U.S. 580 (1884) |
treaties
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| Railroad Commission Cases |
116 U.S. 307 (1886) |
contracts, police power, regulation of transport
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| Yick Wo v. Hopkins |
118 U.S. 356 (1886) |
equal protection, facially-neutral laws administered in a discriminatory manner
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| Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad |
118 U.S. 394 (1886) |
corporate personhood
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| Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad Company v. Illinois |
118 U.S. 557 (1886) |
regulation of interstate commerce by individual states, creation of ICC
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| The Telephone Cases |
126 U.S. 1 (1888) |
patent law
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| Beginning of active duty of Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller, October 8, 1888
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| Dent v. West Virginia |
129 U.S. 114 (1889) |
state licensing of doctors
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| Hans v. Louisiana |
134 U.S. 1 (1890) |
interpreting the Eleventh Amendment
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| Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad v. Minnesota |
134 U.S. 418 (1890) |
states and railway fees
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| Mormon Church v. United States |
136 U.S. 1 (1890) |
upheld revocation of Mormon Church charter and confiscation of church property
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| Holy Trinity Church v. United States |
143 U.S. 457 (1892) |
contracts with foreign citizens, religion
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| Nix v. Hedden |
149 U.S. 304 (1893) |
status of the tomato as fruit or vegetable
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| United States v. E. C. Knight Co. |
156 U.S. 1 (1895) |
antitrust action; “Sugar Trust Case”
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| Coffin v. United States |
156 U.S. 432 (1895) |
the presumption of innocence
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| In re Debs |
158 U.S. 564 (1895) |
strikes and interstate commerce
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| Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. |
158 U.S. 601 (1895) |
income tax and tariffs
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| Sparf v. United States, |
156 U.S. 51 (1895) |
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| Plessy v. Ferguson |
163 U.S. 537 (1896) |
segregation; "separate but equal"
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| United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Association |
166 U.S. 290 (1897) |
railroads and rate fixing
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| Interstate Commerce Commission v. Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway Co. |
167 U.S. 479 (1897) |
powers of an administrative agency
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| Holden v. Hardy |
169 U.S. 366 (1898) |
working hours of miners
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| United States v. Wong Kim Ark |
169 U.S. 649 (1898) |
citizenship and race
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| Hawker v. New York |
170 U.S. 189 (1898) |
character and doctor’s licenses
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| Williams v. Mississippi |
170 U.S. 213 (1898) |
literacy tests
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| Brown v. New Jersey |
175 U.S. 172 (1899) |
use of a struck jury
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| Malony v. Adsit |
175 U.S. 281 (1899) |
property issues
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| Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education |
175 U.S. 528 (1899) |
segregation in public schools
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1900–1909
1910–1919
1920–1929
| Case name |
Citation |
Summary
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| Eisner v. Macomber |
252 U.S. 189 (1920) |
pro rata stock dividend not taxable income
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| Missouri v. Holland |
252 U.S. 416 (1920) |
states’ rights
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| Smith v. Kansas City Title & Trust Co. |
255 U.S. 180 (1921) |
federal question jurisdiction in state corporate law matter
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| Dillon v. Gloss |
256 U.S. 368 (1921) |
Constitutional amendment process
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| Beginning of active duty of Chief Justice William Howard Taft, July 11, 1921
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| Leser v. Garnett |
258 U.S. 130 (1922) |
constitutionality of Nineteenth Amendment
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| Balzac v. Porto Rico |
258 U.S. 298 (1922) |
sometimes considered one of the Insular Cases
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| Child Labor Tax Case |
259 U.S. 20 (1922) |
docket title Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co., found the Child Labor Tax Law of 1919 was not a valid use of Congress' power under the Taxing and Spending Clause
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| Federal Baseball Club v. National League |
259 U.S. 200 (1922) |
baseball and antitrust regulation
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| Takao Ozawa v. United States |
260 U.S. 178 (1922) |
naturalization and race (Japanese-American)
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| Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon |
260 U.S. 393 (1922) |
Substantive Due Process, Takings clause of the Fifth Amendment
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| Moore v. Dempsey |
261 U.S. 86 (1923) |
mob-dominated trials, federal writ of habeas corpus, due process
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| United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind |
261 U.S. 204 (1923) |
naturalization and race (Indian-American)
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| Adkins v. Children’s Hospital |
261 U.S. 525 (1923) |
freedom of contract, minimum wage laws
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| Meyer v. Nebraska |
262 U.S. 390 (1923) |
constitutionality of law prohibiting teaching of foreign languages; substantive due process
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| Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co. |
263 U.S. 413 (1923) |
review of state court decisions by U.S. District Courts
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| United States v. Ninety-Five Barrels (More or Less) Alleged Apple Cider Vinegar |
265 U.S. 438 (1924) |
legality of misleading but factually accurate packaging statements under the Pure Food and Drug Act
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| Irwin v. Gavit |
268 U.S. 161 (1925) |
taxation of income from a trust
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| Pierce v. Society of Sisters |
268 U.S. 510 (1925) |
privacy
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| Gitlow v. New York |
268 U.S. 652 (1925) |
prosecution of seditious speech
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| Bowers v. Kerbaugh-Empire Co. |
271 U.S. 170 (1926) |
taxation of reduced loss on exchanged currency
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| Myers v. United States |
272 U.S. 52 (1926) |
Presidential authority to remove executive branch officials
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| Village of Euclid, Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co. |
272 U.S. 365 (1926) |
zoning, due process
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| Buck v. Bell |
274 U.S. 200 (1927) |
compulsory sterilization, eugenics
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| Hess v. Pawloski |
274 U.S. 352 (1927) |
consent to in personam jurisdiction
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| Whitney v. California |
274 U.S. 357 (1927) |
prosecution of criminal syndicalism
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| Gong Lum v. Rice |
275 U.S. 78 (1927) |
admission of Chinese girl to school for White children in Mississippi
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| Miller v. Schoene |
276 U.S. 272 (1928) |
Substantive due process, takings clause
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| Olmstead v. United States |
277 U.S. 438 (1928) |
admissibility of illegally-obtained phone wiretaps as evidence
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| United States v. Schwimmer |
279 U.S. 644 (1929) |
denial of naturalization to a pacifist
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| Old Colony Trust Co. v. Commissioner |
279 U.S. 716 (1929) |
third-party payment of income tax, effect of Revenue Act of 1926
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| Resignation of Chief Justice William Howard Taft, February 3, 1930
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