Landmark Supreme Court Cases
Name_____________________________
Federalism
Case
Summary
Importance
Marbury v.
Madison
McCulloch v.
Maryland
Barron v. Baltimore
South Dakota v.
Dole
Fletcher v. Peck
Commerce Clause
Case
Summary
Importance
Separation of Powers
Summary
Importance
Gibbons v. Ogden
US v. Lopez
Heart of Atlanta
Motel v. US
Printz v. US
US v. Morrison
Case
US v. Nixon
INS v. Chadha
Landmark Supreme Court Cases
Case
Name_____________________________
1st Amendment – Religion – Establishment Clause
Summary
Importance
1st Amendment – Religion – Free Exercise Clause
Summary
Importance
Engel v. Vitale
Abington SD v.
Schempp
Lemon v. Kurtzman
West Virginia v.
Barnette
Lee v. Weisman
Wallace v. Jaffree
Everson v. Board of
Education*
Case
Reynolds v. US
Wisconsin v. Yoder
Oregon v. Smith
Jacobson v.
Massachusetts
Landmark Supreme Court Cases
Case
Gitlow v.
New York*
Schenck v. US
Tinker v.
Des Moines
Texas v. Johnson
Chaplinsky v.
New Hampshire
Miller v. California
Dennis v. US
Near v. Minnesota*
Hazelwood v.
Kulheimer
New York Times v.
Sullivan
Roth v. US
New York Times v.
US
Brandenburg v.
Ohio
Name_____________________________
1st Amendment – Freedom of Speech and Press
Summary
Importance
Landmark Supreme Court Cases
Case
Name_____________________________
1st Amendment – Freedom of Assembly, Petition, Association
Summary
Importance
NAACP v. Alabama
Boy Scouts of
America v. Dale
Due Process
Case
Mapp v. Ohio*
Miranda v. Arizona
Gideon v.
Wainwright*
Escobedo v. Illinois
California v.
Acevedo
US v. Leon
New Jersey v. TLO
Katz v. US
Furman v. Georgia
Gregg v. Georgia
Summary
Importance
Landmark Supreme Court Cases
Case
Name_____________________________
Privacy and Abortion
Summary
Importance
Equal Protection Clause - Race
Summary
Importance
Griswold v.
Connecticut
Roe v. Wade
Webster v.
Reproductive
Health Services
Planned
Parenthood v.
Casey
Case
Scott v. Sandford
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of
Education
Swann v. CharlotteMecklenburg Board
of Education
Korematsu v. US
Regents of
University of
California v. Bakke
Gratz v. Bollinger
Grutter v. Bollinger
Adarand
Constructors v.
Pena
Landmark Supreme Court Cases
Case
Name_____________________________
Equal Protection Clause – Women and LGBT Rights
Summary
Importance
Reed v. Reed
Rostker v. Goldberg
US v. Virginia
Loving v. Virginia
Lawrence v. Texas
Windsor v. US
Incorporation
Case
Summary
Importance
Voting and Elections
Summary
Importance
Palko v.
Connecticut
Case
Baker v. Carr
Reynolds v. Sims
Wesberry v.
Sanders
Buckley v. Valeo
Citizens United v.
FEC
McConnell v. FEC
Cases with a* indicate that it was used to incorporate one of the protections of the Bill of Rights to the States.