Landmark Supreme Court Decisions
The Supreme Court's landmark decisions — Marbury, Dred Scott, Brown, Roe, Obergefell, Dobbs — each on the day it was decided, with who wrote it, who dissented and what overruled it.
Events 455 totals
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Feb
18
1793
⚖️ Chisholm v. Georgia
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Mar
7
1796
⚖️ Ware v. Hylton
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Mar
8
1796
⚖️ Hylton v. United States
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Feb
24
1803
⚖️ Marbury v. Madison
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Feb
27
1804
⚖️ Little v. Barreme
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Mar
16
1810
⚖️ Fletcher v. Peck
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Feb
13
1812
⚖️ United States v. Hudson
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Mar
20
1816
⚖️ Martin v. Hunter's Lessee
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Mar
15
1817
⚖️ Laidlaw v. Organ
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Feb
25
1819
⚖️ Dartmouth College v. Woodward
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Mar
6
1819
⚖️ McCulloch v. Maryland
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Mar
3
1821
⚖️ Cohens v. Virginia
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Feb
28
1823
⚖️ Johnson v. McIntosh
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Mar
2
1824
⚖️ Gibbons v. Ogden
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Mar
3
1832
⚖️ Worcester v. Georgia
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Feb
16
1833
⚖️ Barron v. Baltimore
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Jan
25
1842
⚖️ Swift v. Tyson
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Jan
3
1849
⚖️ Luther v. Borden
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Mar
2
1852
⚖️ Cooley v. Board of Wardens
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Mar
6
1857
⚖️ Dred Scott v. Sandford
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Mar
7
1859
⚖️ Ableman v. Booth
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Apr
3
1866
⚖️ Ex parte Milligan
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Mar
16
1868
⚖️ Crandall v. Nevada
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Apr
12
1869
⚖️ Texas v. White
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Jan
29
1872
⚖️ United States v. Klein
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