APUSH SCOTUS Cases

Marbury v Madison (1803)

PD 4 (Marshall Court)- established judicial review (court declares laws const)

McCulloch v Maryland (1819)

PD 4 (Marshall Court)- congress can create a national bank through the elastic clause, and is supreme law of the land

Gibbons v Ogden (1824)

PD 4 (Marshall Court + Market Revolution) - established federal control over interstate commerce

Worcester v Georgia (1832)

PD 4 (Marshall Court) - only federal govt can regulate native relations (Jackson ignores)

Commonwealth v Hunt (1842)

PD 4 (Market Rev) - labor unions are legal

Dred Scott v Sanford (1857)

PD 5 (Civil War tensions) - slaves are property, not citizens, Congress can’t prohibit slavery (Missouri Comp is unconstitutional)

Civil Rights Cases (1883)

PD 6 (post reconstruction) - segregation is constitutional

Wabash, St. Louis, & Pacific Railway Company v Illinois (1886)

PD 6 (the Grange + RR co.) - states cannot regulate interstate commerce, only Congress can

US v EC Knight Co (1895)

PD 6 (industrialization) - fed govt can’t act against trusts, only interstate commerce

Plessy v Ferguson (1896)

PD 6 (civil rights) - segregation is equal (separate but equal)

“Insular Cases” (1901)

PD 7 (imperialism from SpanAm and FiloAm War) - fed govt can tax imports from imperial colonies

Northern Securities Co. v US

PD 7 (progressive era) - govt CAN bust monopolies under Sherman Antitrust Act

Lochner v New York (1905)

PD 7 (industrialization/progressive era) - state can’t regulate working hours

Schenck v US (1919)

PD 7 (WWI) - civil liberties (free speech) are limited in times of war

Schechter Poultry Corp v US (1936)

PD 7 (New Deal) - NRA is unconstitutional, New Deal exceeds powers of fed govt

Korematsu v US (1944)

PD 7 (WWII) - Japanese internment camps is constitutional to protect national security

Brown v BOE (1954)

PD 8 (Warren Court) - segregation is not constitutional in schools

Gideon v Wainwright (1963)

PD 8 (Warren Court) - if you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed to you

Escobedo v Illinois (1964)

PD 8 (Warren Court) - the accused has the right to counsel during police interrogations

Miranda v Arizona (1966)

PD 8 (Warren Court) - caused Miranda rights

Tinker v Des Moines (1969)

PD 8 (vietnam protests) - students have the right to free speech in schools as long as it does not disrupt educational activities

Roe v Wade (1973)

PD 8 (Burger court (cons but lib)) - legal right to an abortion

US v Nixon (1974)

PD 8 (executive privilege / watergate) - limited presidential power regarding the right to withhold information

Regents of the University of California v Bakke (1978)

PD 8 (affirmative action) - affirmative action is constitutional but racial quotas are not

Bush v Gore (2000)

PD 9 (voting processes) - standardized the voting process