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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Apr
14
1873
⚖️ Slaughter-House Cases
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Mar
27
1876
⚖️ United States v. Cruikshank
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Jan
21
1878
⚖️ Pennoyer v. Neff
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Jan
6
1879
⚖️ Reynolds v. United States
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Mar
1
1880
⚖️ Strauder v. West Virginia
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Oct
15
1883
⚖️ Civil Rights Cases
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Dec
17
1883
⚖️ Ex parte Crow Dog
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Mar
3
1884
⚖️ Hurtado v. California
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Mar
17
1884
⚖️ Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony
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Nov
3
1884
⚖️ Elk v. Wilkins
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Jan
4
1886
⚖️ Presser v. Illinois
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May
10
1886
⚖️ Yick Wo v. Hopkins
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May
13
1889
⚖️ Chae Chan Ping v. United States
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Feb
3
1890
⚖️ Davis v. Beason
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Mar
3
1890
⚖️ Hans v. Louisiana
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Apr
8
1895
⚖️ Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.
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May
18
1896
⚖️ Talton v. Mayes
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May
18
1896
⚖️ Plessy v. Ferguson
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Mar
1
1897
⚖️ Allgeyer v. Louisiana
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Mar
28
1898
⚖️ United States v. Wong Kim Ark
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Jan
8
1900
⚖️ The Paquete Habana
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Jun
2
1902
⚖️ Compagnie Francaise de Navigation a Vapeur v. Louisiana Board of Health
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Jan
5
1903
⚖️ Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock
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Feb
2
1903
⚖️ Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co.
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Jan
30
1905
⚖️ Swift and Company v. United States
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