Historical

In International Shoe Co. v. State of Washington, 326 U.S. 310 (1945), the U.S. Supreme Court first established the minimum contacts test for determining whether a corporation is...

In Shelley v Kraemer, 334 U.S. 1 (1948), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause banned state courts from enforcing racially restr...

In Everson v Board of Education of the Township of Ewing, 330 U.S. 1 (1947), the U.S. Supreme Court held that a New Jersey law that reimbursed parents for school transportation c...

In Skinner v Oklahoma ex rel Williamson, 316 U.S. 535 (1942), the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Oklahoma's Criminal Sterilization Act. The justices held that compulsory steriliz...

In Palko v Connecticut, 302 U.S. 319 (1937), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Fifth Amendment’s immunity against double jeopardy was not a fundamental right. Accordingly, i...

In United States v Peters, 9 U.S. 115 (1809), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the legislature of a State can’t annul the judgments, nor determine the jurisdiction, of the cour...

In Chevron USA v Natural Resources Defense Council, 467 U.S. 837 (1984), the U.S. Supreme Court established the standard of judicial review that courts should apply when evaluat...

In Stuart v Laird, 5 U.S. 299 (1803), the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the repeal of the Judiciary Act of 1801, which effectively abolished the existing circuit courts. The decision...

In Erie Railroad Co v Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938), the U.S. Supreme Court held that federal district courts in diversity jurisdiction cases must apply the law of the states in w...

In Pierce v Society of Sisters, 268 U.S. 510 (1925), the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Compulsory Education Act of 1922, which required parents to send their children to pub...