Final Cases Authors

Federalist 54 (1788)

James Madison

Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842)

M: Story

Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)

M: Taney

D: Curtis

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

M: Brown

D: Harlan

“The Atlanta Compromise” (1895)

Booker T. Washington

Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

Unanimous: Warren

Bolling v. Sharpe (1954)

Unanimous: Warren

Brown v. Board of Education II (1955)

Unanimous: Warren

Cooper v. Aaron (1958)

Per Curiam

Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education (1971)

Unanimous: Burger

Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)

Plurality: Powell

Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)

M: O’Connor

D: Rehnquist and Thomas

Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (2023)

M: Roberts

C: Kavanaugh

D: Sotomayor

“Declaration of Sentiments” (1848)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Reed v. Reed (1971)

Unanimous: Burger

Craig v. Boren (1976)

M: Brennan

D: Rehnquist

United States v. Virginia (1996)

M: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Munn v. Illinois (1877)

M: Waite

D: Field

Lochner v. New York (1905)

M: Peckham

D: Harlan

West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (1937)

M: Hughes

Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)

M: Douglass

Roe v. Wade (1973)

M: Blackmun

D: Rehnquist

Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992)

Plurality: O’Connor, Kennedy, Souter

C: Blackmun

D: Rehnquist

Bowers v. Hardwick (1986)

M: White

D: Stevens and Blackmun

Romer v. Evans (1996)

M: Kennedy

Lawrence v. Texas (2003)

M: Kennedy

C: O’Connor

D: Scalia

Loving v. Virginia (1967)

Unanimous: Warren

“The Constitution of the US: Pro-Slavery or Anti-Slavery” (1860)

Fredrick Douglass

“Commencement Address at Howard University” ((1965)

Lyndon B. Johnson