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Famous Constitutional Law Cases

The following list of links remains a work in progress. I have edited most of the cases listed below, although a couple have not yet been added. This is my idiosyncratic and still incomplete list of important cases in the history of American constitutional law. I decided to offer edited opinions from these cases, as full text opinions may be found elsewhere. I have just begun adding some commentary following these cases. Those cases including commentary from me are asterisked ("*"). If you have any suggestions for additions to this list, please feel free to contact me by clicking on the "Contact Me" button and sending me an e-mail.

Abington Sch. Dist. v. Schempp

Bowers v. Hardwick

Brown v. Board of Education

Buck v. Bell

Calder v. Bull*

Charles River Bridge

Civil Rights Cases

Dred Scott v. Sandford

E.C. Knight Co. v. United States

Darby, United States v.

Epperson v. Arkansas

Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins

Everson v. Bd. of Educ.

Fletcher v. Peck*

Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority

Griswold v. Connecticut

Lemon v. Kurtzman

Lochner v. New York

Marbury v. Madison*

Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee*

McCulloch v. Maryland*

Meyer v. Nebraska

Minersville Sch. Dist. v. Gobitis

Muller v. Oregon

Munn v. Illinois

Nebbia v. New York

NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel

Nixon, United States v.

Ogden v. Saunders

Pennsylania Coal Co. v. Mahon

Planned Parenthood v. Casey

Pierce v. Society of Sisters

Plessy v. Ferguson

Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co.

Roe v. Wade

Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States (Sick Chicken Case)

Sherbert v. Verner

Slaughterhouse Cases

Stuart v. Laird*

Sturges v. Crowninshield

Swift v. Tyson

West Coast Hotel v. Parrish

West Virginia Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette

Wickard v. Filburn

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (The Steel Seizure Case)