Landmark Supreme Court Cases
(based on Betsy Newmark’s page).

Study the facts of each case, what was decided, and its impact on the rest of us.  Each link will take you to the case’s synopsis on the Oyez project.

Federalism
Fletcher v. Peck (1810)	
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)	
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)	
NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. (1937)	
Heart of Atlanta Motel v. US (1964)	
Katzenbach v. McClung (1964)	
South Dakota v. Dole (1987)	
United States v. Lopez (1995)	
Printz v. United States (1997)	
United States v. Morrison (2000)	
Elections and the Media
Smith v. Allwright (1944)	
*Buckley v. Valeo (1976)	
Bush v. Gore (2000)	
Congress
Baker v. Carr (1962)
Wesberry v. Sanders (1964)
Shaw v. Reno (1993)
US Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton (1995)
Powell v. McCormack (1969)
Reynolds v. Sims (1964)
The Presidency
Clinton v. City of New York (1998)
United States v. Nixon (1974)
INS v. Chadha (1983)
The Judiciary
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Incorporation
Barron v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore (1833)
Gitlow v. New York (1925)
Near v. Minnesota ex rel. Olson (1931)
Palko v. Connecticut (1937)
Everson v. Board of Education (1942)

Freedom of Religion
Everson v. Board of Education (1942)
Engel v. Vitale (1962)
Lemon v. Kurtzman (1973)
Wallace v. Jaffree (1985)
BOE of Westside Community Schools v. Mergens (1990)
Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe (2000)
Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002)
Ten Commandments cases: 
McCreary County v. ACLU of Kentucky (2005)
Van Orden v. Perry (2005)
Freedom of Speech and Press
Schenck v. United States (1919)
Gitlow v. New York (1925)
Near v. Minnesota (1931)
New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964)
Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969)
New York Times v. United States (1971)
Miller v. California (1973)
Bethel School District No. 403 v. Fraser (1986)
Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier (1988)
Texas v. Johnson (1989)
Reno v. ACLU (1997)
Freedom of Assembly and Petition
NAACP v. Alabama (1958)
Boy Scouts of America v. Dale (2000)
Due Process and the Rights of the Accused
Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
Furman v. Georgia (1972)
Gregg v. Georgia (1976)
New Jersey v. T.L.O. (1985)
Kelo v. City of New London, CT (2005)
Equal Protection of the Laws – Minorities
Civil Rights Cases (1883)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Korematsu v. United States (1944)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (I) (1954)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (II) (1955)
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
Lawrence and Garner v. Texas (2003)
Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) and Gratz v. Bollinger (2003)
Equal Protection of the Laws – Women
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
Reed v. Reed (1971)
Roe v. Wade (1973)
Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989)
Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992)

Right to Die
Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Dept. of Health (1990)

Gun Control(!)
District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) 

Other Important Cases since the 1990s…