Final Cases Year

Federalist 54 (James Madison)

1788

Prigg v. Pennsylvania (MAJ: Story)

1842

Dred Scott v. Sanford (MAJ: Taney, DISSENT: Curtis)

1857

Plessy v. Ferguson (MAJ: Brown; DISSENT: Harlan)

1896

“The Atlantic Compromise” (Booker T. Washington)

1895

Brown v. Board of Education (Unanimous: Warren)

1954

Bolling v. Sharpe (Unanimous: Warren)

1954

Brown v. Board of Education II (Unanimous: Warren)

1955

Cooper v. Aaron (Per Curiam)

1958

Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education (Unanimous: Burger)

1971

Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (Plurality: Powell)

1978

Grutter v. Bollinger (MAJ: O’Connor; DISSENT: Rehnquist and Thomas)

2003

Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (MAJ: Roberts; C: Kavanaugh; D: Sotomayor)

2023

“Declaration of Sentiments” (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)

1848

Reed v. Reed (Unanimous: Burger)

1971

Craig v. Boren (MAJ: Brennan; DISSENT: Rehnquist)

1976

United States v. Virginia (MAJ: Ruth Bader Ginsburg)

1996

Munn v. Illinois (MAJ: Waite; DISSENT: Field)

1877

Lochner v. New York (MAJ: Peckham; DISSENT: Harlan)

1905

West Coast v. Parrish (MAJ: HUGHES)

1937

Griswold v. Connecticut (MAJ: Douglass)

1965

Roe v. Wade (MAJ: Blackmun; DISSENT: Rehnquist)

1973

Planned Parenthood v. Casey (Plurality: O’Connor, Kennedy, Souter; C: Blackmun; D: Rehnquist)

1992

Bowers v. Hardwick (MAJ: White; DISSENT: Stevens and Blackmun)

1986

Romer v. Evans (MAJ: Kennedy)

1996

Lawrence v. Texas (MAJ: Kennedy; C: O’Connor; D: Scalia)

2003

Loving v. Virginia (Unanimous: Wawrren)

1967

The Constitution of the US: Pro-Slavery or Anti-Slavery” (Frederick Douglass)

1860

“Comencement Address at Howard University” (Lyndon B. Johnson)

1965