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Landmark U.S. Supreme Court Cases
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Thomas Jefferson Takes Office
Jefferson became the 3rd President of the United States. -
Marbury v. Madison
The ruling established the principle of Judicial Review to see if a law was constitutional. -
James Madison Takes Office
Madison became the 4th President of the United States. -
Fletcher v. Peck
The Court ruling was that a state legislature could repeal a previous, corruptly made law, but could not void any contract made under these laws. -
James Monroe Takes Office
Monroe became the 5th Preident of the United States. -
McCulloch v. Maryland
The ruling stated that a Bank of The U.S. was an "implied power," and was therefore constitutional. Thus, Maryland had no right to tax the bank. -
Johnson v. McIntosh
Established that Indian tribes had rights to tribal lands that preceded all other American law; only the federal government could take land from the tribes. -
Gibbons v. Ogden
Congress had the ability to regulate interstate commerce. This ruling also proved that Federal power had the ability to supersede state law. -
John Quincy Adams Takes Office
John Q. Adams would become the 6th President of the United States. -
Andrew Jackson Takes Office
Jackson would become the 7th President of the United States. -
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
The ruling was that the natives were dependent to the U.S. Federal government, and did not have their own jurisdiction when it came to the U.S. -
Worcester v. Georgia
Established tribal autonomy within their boundaries, i.e. the tribes were "distinct political communities, having territorial boundaries within which their authority is exclusive." The tribes had jurisdiction within their own, small communities. -
Martin Van Buren Takes Office
Van Buren would become the 8th President of the United States. -
William Henry Harrison Takes Office
William H. Harrison would become the 9th President of the United States. He died of pneumonia only a month into his presidency. -
John Tyler Takes Office
Tyler would become the 10th President of the United States. -
James K. Polk Takes Office
Polk would become the 11th President of the United States. -
Zachary Taylor Takes Office
Taylor would become the 12th President of the United States. He would become only the 2nd President to die in office up to that point. -
Millard Fillmore Takes Office
Fillmore would become the 13th President of the United States. -
Franklin Pierce Takes Office
Pierce would become the 14th President of the United States. -
James Buchanan Takes Office
Buchanan would become the 15th President of the United States. -
Dred Scott v. Sandford
This decision ruled that blacks had no right to fight for their freedom in court, as they were property. This would be a further prelude to the U.S. Civil War. -
Abraham Lincoln Takes Office
Lincoln would become the 16th President of the United States. He would be the first President to be assassinated. -
Andrew Johnson Takes Office
Andrew Johnson would become the 17th President of the United States. -
Ex Parte Milligan
The Court ruled that trying civilians in military courts when civilian courts were available was unconstitutional. -
Ulysses S. Grant Takes Office
Grant would become the 18th President of the United States. -
Rutherford B. Hayes Takes Office
Hayes would become the 19th President of the United States. -
Reynolds v. United States
The Court ruled that religious duty could not be used as a suitable defense to criminal indictment. -
James Garfield Takes Office
Garfield would become the 20th President of the United States. He would be the 2nd President to be assassinated, after Lincoln. -
Chester A. Arthur Takes Office
Arthur would become the 21st President of the United States. -
Grover Cleveland Takes Office (1st Term)
Cleveland would become the 22nd President of the United States. -
Benjamin Harrison Takes Office
Benjamin Harrison would become the 23rd President of the United States. -
Grover Cleveland Takes Office (2nd Term)
Cleveland would claim a 2nd Presidental election and become the 24th President of the United States. He is the only President to ever have two, non-succesive terms. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
This case would hold segregation true under the label of "seperate but equal." It would be this way for over 60 years, until the Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. -
William McKinley Takes Office
McKinley would become the 25th President of the United States. He would be the 3rd President to be assassinated, after Lincoln and Garfield. -
Williams v. Mississippi
Said that disenfranchisement was not a violation of the Constitution as long as it wasn't based on race. Effected blacks by excluding several from office. -
Theodore Roosevelt Takes Office
Theodore Roosevelt would become the 26th President of the United States. -
Lochner v. New York
The ruling declared that it was unconstitutional for the state to limit the hours that bakers could work daily and weekly. People had to the right to negotiate their own workload. -
Muller v. Oregon
The Court upheld that limiting women's work hours was constitutional in Oregon as it was to protect the women's health. -
William H. Taft Takes Office
Taft would become the 27th President of the United States. -
Woodrow Wilson Takes Office
Wilson would become the 28th President of the United States. -
Schenck v. United States
The ruling declared the 1st Amendment's right to freedom of speech was not absolute; free speech could be limited if its exercise presented a "clear and present danger" to the U.S. -
Warren G. Harding Takes Office
Harding would become the 29th President of the United States. He would eventually die of a heart attack. -
Adkins v. Children's Hospital
The ruling held that the federal minimum wage legislation for women was an unconstitutional infringement of liberty of contract. -
Calvin Coolidge Takes Office
Coolidge would become the 30th President of the United States. -
Herert Hoover Takes Office
Hoover became the 31st President of the United States. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt Takes Office
Franklin D. Roosevelt would become the 32nd President of the United States. He is the only President to ever serve 3 terms, and was nominated for a fourth. -
Schechter v. United States
The ruling declared the National Recovery Administration (NRA) unconstitutional because Congress gave legislative power to the President. -
Cantwell v. Connecticut
States cannot interfere with peoples' free exercise of religion. -
Korematsu v. United States
The Supreme Court upheld the decision of Japanese-Americans being brought to internment camps during WW2 as constitutional. -
Ex parte Endo
The government cannot detain a citizen that the government itself concedes is loyal to the United States. It was handed down the same day as the Korematsu Supreme Court Case. -
Harry S. Truman Takes Office
Truman became the 33rd President of the United States. -
McCollum v. Board of Education
The ruling was that the use of public school facilities by religious organizations to give religious instruction to school children was unconstitutional.
