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"Actual malice" (knowledge of falsity or reckless disregard)
New York Times v. Sullivan (1964)
Debate on public issues should be "uninhibited, robust, and wide-open"
New York Times v. Sullivan (1964)
"Most rigid scrutiny" for racial classifications, first announced
Korematsu v. United States (1944)
"Loaded weapon" (dissent)
Korematsu (1944), Jackson dissenting
"Legalization of racism" (dissent)
Korematsu (1944), Murphy dissenting
Jackson's three categories: maximum, twilight, lowest ebb
Youngstown Sheet & Tube v. Sawyer (1952)
Steel Seizure Case
Youngstown (1952)
Tenth Amendment "is but a truism"
United States v. Darby (1941)
Hammer v. Dagenhart "should be, and now is, overruled"
United States v. Darby (1941)
Aggregation principle ("taken together with that of many others similarly situated")
Wickard v. Filburn (1942)
Home-grown wheat reachable under the commerce power
Wickard v. Filburn (1942)
Footnote four: "discrete and insular minorities"
United States v. Carolene Products (1938)
Rational basis for economic regulation, origin of the double standard
Carolene Products (1938)
Equal protection must be provided "within its borders"
Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada (1938)
Intangibles: "reputation of the faculty… traditions and prestige"
Sweatt v. Painter (1950)
Separate law school in a basement; separate is unequal in graduate education
Sweatt v. Painter (1950)
"Fighting words"
Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942)
Categories of speech that are "no essential part of any exposition of ideas"
Chaplinsky (1942)
"Wall of separation between church and State" (as doctrine)
Everson v. Board of Education (1947)
Child-benefit theory (bus fares)
Everson (1947)
Establishment Clause incorporated against the states
Everson (1947)
Total incorporation vs. fundamental fairness showdown
Adamson v. California (1947)
"Canons of decency and fairness" (concurrence)
Adamson (1947), Frankfurter
"Gravity of the evil, discounted by its improbability"
Dennis v. United States (1951), Hand's formula
Smith Act prosecutions of Communist Party leaders
Dennis v. United States (1951)
"In calmer times" the Court will restore First Amendment liberties (dissent)
Dennis (1951), Black dissenting
"Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal"
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
"We cannot turn the clock back to 1868"
Brown (1954)
"All deliberate speed"
Brown II (1955)
"Legislators represent people, not trees or acres"
Reynolds v. Sims (1964)
One person, one vote for both houses of a state legislature
Reynolds v. Sims (1964)
"Equal application" of a racial classification is no defense
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Freedom to marry as "one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness"
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
"Root and branch"; plans must "work now"
Green v. County School Board of New Kent County (1968)
Freedom-of-choice desegregation plan rejected
Green (1968)
Civil Rights Act Title II upheld under the commerce clause
Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (1964)
Congress may legislate against "moral wrongs" through commerce
Heart of Atlanta (1964)
Voting Rights Act preclearance upheld; "unremitting and ingenious defiance"
South Carolina v. Katzenbach (1966)
"Exceptional conditions can justify legislative measures not otherwise appropriate"
South Carolina v. Katzenbach (1966)
Purpose-and-primary-effect test for establishment
Abington School District v. Schempp (1963)
School Bible reading struck
Schempp (1963)
Compelling interest required to burden religious practice (Sabbath, unemployment benefits)
Sherbert v. Verner (1963)
Penumbras "formed by emanations"
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
Right of privacy first recognized
Griswold (1965)
Secular textbooks lent to parochial students upheld
Board of Education v. Allen (1968)
Students do not "shed their constitutional rights… at the schoolhouse gate"
Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)
"Material and substantial" disruption test
Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)
"Utterly without redeeming social value"
Memoirs v. Massachusetts (1966)
Fanny Hill
Memoirs v. Massachusetts (1966)
"Imminent lawless action" test
Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969)
Whitney v. California overruled; criminal syndicalism statute struck
Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969)
Exclusionary rule applied to the states
Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
Warnings before custodial interrogation
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
Executive privilege recognized but "presumptive," yields to criminal trial
United States v. Nixon (1974)
Political safeguards of federalism; "traditional governmental function" test abandoned
Garcia v. San Antonio MTA (1985)
National League of Cities overruled
Garcia (1985)
Wealth not a suspect class; education not a fundamental right
San Antonio ISD v. Rodriguez (1973)
Intermediate scrutiny: "important governmental objectives… substantially related"
Craig v. Boren (1976)
Test that "comes out of thin air" (dissent)
Craig v. Boren (1976), Rehnquist dissenting
Racial quotas invalid; diversity a compelling interest; race as a "plus"
Regents v. Bakke (1978), Powell
Three-prong test: purpose, effect, entanglement
Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971)
"Excessive government entanglement"
Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971)
Trimester framework
Roe v. Wade (1973)
Privacy "broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy"
Roe v. Wade (1973)
"Raw judicial power" (dissent)
Roe (1973), White dissenting
Endorsement test (concurrence)
Lynch v. Donnelly (1984), O'Connor concurring
Crèche in a city Christmas display upheld
Lynch v. Donnelly (1984)
Moment of silence "or voluntary prayer" struck for lack of secular purpose
Wallace v. Jaffree (1985)
"Wall of separation" is "a metaphor based on bad history" (dissent)
Wallace v. Jaffree (1985), Rehnquist dissenting
Rights "deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition" (as the test for fundamental rights)
Bowers v. Hardwick (1986); revived in Dobbs (2022)
Morality as a rational basis for a sodomy law
Bowers v. Hardwick (1986)
"The right to be let alone" (dissent, quoting Brandeis)
Bowers (1986), Blackmun dissenting
Guided discretion; bifurcated trial; death penalty not per se cruel and unusual
Gregg v. Georgia (1976)
"Evolving standards of decency" applied to the death penalty
Gregg (1976), Atkins (2002)
Good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule
United States v. Leon (1984)
Public-safety exception to Miranda
New York v. Quarles (1984)
"Ad hoc" regulatory-takings factors: economic impact, investment-backed expectations, character of the action
Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City (1978)
"Parcel as a whole"
Penn Central (1978)
"We start with first principles"
United States v. Lopez (1995)
Three categories: channels, instrumentalities, substantial effects
United States v. Lopez (1995) (restating Perez)
"Pile inference upon inference"
United States v. Lopez (1995)
Economic vs. noneconomic activity under the commerce clause
Lopez (1995), Morrison (2000)
Home-grown medical marijuana reachable; Wickard reaffirmed
Gonzales v. Raich (2005)
"States as laboratories" (dissent, medical marijuana)
Raich (2005), O'Connor dissenting
No temporary immunity for a sitting President's unofficial conduct
Clinton v. Jones (1997)
"Animus"; "a stranger to its laws"; rational basis with bite
Romer v. Evans (1996)
Colorado Amendment 2
Romer v. Evans (1996)
"Exceedingly persuasive justification"
United States v. Virginia (1996)
VMI
United States v. Virginia (1996)
"Critical mass"; "25 years from now"
Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)
Neutral, generally applicable laws need no compelling interest
Employment Division v. Smith (1990)
"Courting anarchy"
Employment Division v. Smith (1990)
Peyote
Employment Division v. Smith (1990)
"Undue burden" / "substantial obstacle"
Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992)
"Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt"
Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992)
Overruling "under fire" would damage legitimacy (stare decisis)
Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992)
"True private choice"
Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002)
School vouchers upheld
Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002)
Bowers "was not correct when it was decided"
Lawrence v. Texas (2003)
"The State cannot demean their existence or control their destiny"
Lawrence v. Texas (2003)