The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States

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• Abington School District v. Schempp
• Abortion
• Academic Freedom
• Actual Malice
• Adair v. United States
• Adamson v. California
• Adkins v. Children’s Hospital
• Administrative State
• Admiralty and Maritime Law
• Advance Sheets
• Advisory Opinions
• Affirmative Action
• Agriculture
• Alienage and Naturalization
• Alien Land Laws
• Allgeyer v. Louisiana
• American Civil Liberties Union
• Antitrust
• Appellate Jurisdiction
• Appointment and Removal Power
• Article III
• Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority
• Assembly and Association, Citizenship, Freedom Of
• Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co.
• Baldwin, Henry (14 Jan. 1780)
• Bank of Augusta v. Earle
• Bank of the United States v. Deveaux
• Bankruptcy and Insolvency Legislation
• Barbour, Phillip Pendleton (25 May 1783)
• Barron v. Baltimore
• Betts v. Brady
• Bill of Rights
• Black, Hugo Lafayette (27 Feb. 1886)
• Black Monday
• Bork, Robert Heron (1 Mar. 1927)
• Bowers v. Hardwick
• Brandeis, Louis Dembitz (13 Nov. 1856)
• Brandeis Brief
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Buck v. Bell
• Burr, Aaron (1756)
• Butler, Pierce (17 Mar. 1866)
• Butler, United States v.
• Calder v. Bull
• Capitalism
• Capital Punishment
• Cardozo, Benjamin Nathan (24 May 1870)
• Center Chair
• Certiorari, Writ Of
• Champion v. Ames
• Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge
• Chase, Samuel (17 Apr. 1741)
• Cherokee Cases
• Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company v. Chicago
• Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. v. Minnesota
• Chisholm v. Georgia
• Circuit Courts of Appeals
• Circuit Riding
• Citizenship
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Civil Rights Act of 1991
• Civil Rights Cases
• Civil Rights Movement
• Civil War
• Clarke, John Hessin (18 Sep. 1857)
• Clear and Present Danger Test
• Cohens v. Virginia
• Colegrove v. Green
• Collector v. Day
• Commerce Power
• Common Law
• Communism and Cold War
• Contraception
• Contract
• Contract, Freedom Of
• Contracts Clause
• Cooley v. Board of Wardens of the Port of Philadelphia
• Corrigan v. Buckley
• Counsel, Right To
• Court‐packing Plan
• Criminal Syndicalism Laws
• Cummings v. Missouri
• Curtis, Benjamin Robbins (4 Nov. 1809)
• Dartmouth College v. Woodward
• Dennis v. United States
• Desegregation Remedies
• Discriminatory Intent
• Dissent
• Double Jeopardy
• Douglas, William Orville (16 Oct. 1898)
• Dual Federalism
• Due Process, Procedural
• Due Process, Substantive
• Duncan v. Louisiana
• E. C. Knight Co., United States v.
• Education
• Eighth Amendment
• Elections
• Eleventh Amendment
• Eminent Domain
• Employment Discrimination
• Equal Protection
• Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins
• Escobedo v. Illinois
• Exclusionary Rule
• Ex Post Facto Laws
• Fair Representation
• Federal Common Law
• Federalism
• Federalist, The
• Federal Questions
• Fifteenth Amendment
• Fifth Amendment
• First Amendment
• Fletcher v. Peck
• Footnote Four
• Four Horsemen
• Fourteenth Amendment
• Fourth Amendment
• Frankfurter, Felix (15 Nov. 1882)
• Freedom of Speech
• Fugitive Slaves
• Gelpcke v. Dubuque
• Gender
• General Welfare
• Genesee Chief v. Fitzhugh
• Gibbons v. Ogden
• Gideon v. Wainwright
• Gitlow v. New York
• Goldberg v. Kelly
• Gold Clause Cases
• Grand Juries
• Griswold v. Connecticut
• Grove City College v. Bell
• Guarantee Clause
• Guest, United States v.
• Habeas Corpus
• Hamilton, Alexander (11 Jan. 1757)
• Hammer v. Dagenhart
• Hand, Billings Learned (27 Jan. 1872)
• Hayburn’s Case
• Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States
• Higher Law
• Hirabayashi v. United States
• Holmes, Oliver Wendell (8 Mar. 1841)
• Home Building and Loan Association v. Blaisdell
• Homosexuality
• Housing Discrimination
• Hudson & Goodwin, United States v.
• Humphrey’s Executor v. United States
• Hurtado v. California
• Hylton v. United States
• Illinois Ex. Rel. Mccollum v. Board of Education
• Impeachment
• Implied Powers
• Income Tax
• Incorporation Doctrine
• Injunctions and Equitable Remedies
• Interstate Commerce Commission
• Iredell, James (5 Oct. 1751)
• Jackson, Andrew (15 Mar. 1767)
• Jackson, Robert Houghwout (13 Feb. 1892)
• Jay, John (12 Dec. 1745)
• Jefferson, Thomas (13 Apr. 1743)
• Johnson, William (27 Dec. 1771)
• Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co.
• Jones v. Van Zandt
• Judicial Activism
• Judicial Power and Jurisdiction
• Judicial Review
• Judicial Self‐restraint
• Judiciary Act of 1789
• Judiciary Acts of 1801 and 1802
• Judiciary Act of 1869
• Just Compensation
• Justices, Number Of
• Korematsu v. United States
• Labor
• Laissez‐faire Constitutionalism
• Lawrence v. Texas
• Legal Defense Fund
• License Cases
• Lincoln, Abraham (12 Feb. 1809)
• Lochner v. New York
• Louisville Railroad Co. v. Letson
• Lower Federal Courts
• Luther v. Borden
• Madison, James (16 Mar. 1751)
• Mandamus, Writ Of
• Mapp v. Ohio
• Marbury v. Madison
• Marshall, John (24 Sept. 1755)
• Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee
• McCardle, Ex Parte
• McCray v. United States
• McCulloch v. Maryland
• McLean, John (11 Mar. 1785)
• McReynolds, James Clark (3 Feb. 1862)
• Meyer v. Nebraska
• Military Trials and Martial Law
• Milligan, Ex Parte
• Minersville School District v. Gobitis
• Miranda v. Arizona
• Mississippi v. Johnson
• Missouri Ex Rel. Gaines v. Canada
• Mobile v. Bolden
• Moore v. Dempsey
• Morehead v. New York Ex Rel. Tipaldo
• Muller v. Oregon
• Munn v. Illinois
• Murphy, Frank (13 Apr. 1890)
• National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
• Native Americans
• Natural Law
• Near v. Minnesota
• Nebbia v. New York
• New Deal
• New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann
• New York v. Miln
• Nineteenth Amendment
• Ninth Amendment
• Nixon, Richard (9 Jan. 1913)
• Obiter Dictum
• Obscenity and Pornography
• Ogden v. Saunders
• Olmstead v. United States
• One Person
• Original Jurisdiction
• Palko v. Connecticut
• Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan
• Passenger Cases
• Paterson, William (24 Dec. 1745)
• Paul v. Virginia
• Petition, Right Of
• Pierce v. Society of Sisters
• Pitney, Mahlon (5 Feb. 1858)
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Police Power
• Political Questions
• Political Thicket
• Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co.
• Postal Power
• Powell v. Alabama
• Presidential Emergency Powers
• Prigg v. Pennsylvania
• Privacy
• Private Corporation Charters
• Privileges and Immunities
• Prize Cases
• Progressivism
• Property Rights
• Providence Bank v. Billings
• Race and Racism
• Reapportionment Cases
• Reconstruction
• Reed, Stanley Forman (31 Dec. 1884)
• Released Time
• Religion
• Removal Act of 1875
• Removal of Cases
• Restrictive Covenants
• Reversals of Court Decisions By Congress
• Roberts, Owen Josephus (2 May 1875)
• Roe v. Wade
• Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (30 Jan. 1882)
• Rule of Reason
• Rutledge, Wiley Blount, Jr. (20 July 1894)
• Sanford, Edward Terry (23 July 1865)
• Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States
• School Prayer and Bible Reading
• Scott v. Sandford
• Sedition Act of 1798
• Segregation, De Facto
• Segregation, De Jure
• Selective Exclusiveness
• Self‐incrimination
• Senate Judiciary Committee
• Separate But Equal Doctrine
• Separation of Powers
• Shelley v. Kraemer
• Sherman Antitrust Act
• Sit‐in Demonstrations
• Sixth Amendment
• Skinner v. Oklahoma
• Slaughterhouse Cases
• Slavery
• Smith Act
• Smyth v. Ames
• Sociological Jurisprudence
• South Carolina v. Katzenbach
• Speech and the Press
• Speedy Trial
• State Action
• State Courts
• State Regulation of Commerce
• State Sovereignty and States’ Rights
• State Taxation
• Stone, Harlan Fiske (11 Oct. 1872)
• Story, Joseph (18 Sep. 1779)
• Stream of Commerce
• Strict Scrutiny
• Stuart v. Laird
• Sturges v. Crowninshield
• Subversion
• Sutherland, George (15 March 1862)
• Sweatt v. Painter
• Swift v. Tyson
• Taft, William Howard (15 Sep. 1857)
• Takings Clause
• Taney, Roger Brooke (17 Mar. 1777)
• Taxing and Spending Clause
• Tenth Amendment
• Territories and New States
• Test Oaths
• Texas v. White
• Thirteenth Amendment
• Trial By Jury
• Truax v. Corrigan
• Tyson v. Banton
• Van Devanter, Willis (17 Apr. 1859)
• Vested Rights
• Vinson, Frederick Moore (22 Jan. 1890)
• Vote, Right To
• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Co. v. Illinois
• War
• Ward’s Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio
• Ware v. Hylton
• War Powers
• Warren, Earl (19 Mar. 1891)
• Washington, George (22 Feb. 1732)
• Washington v. Davis
• Wayne, James Moore (1790)
• Webster v. Reproductive Health Services
• West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish
• West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
• White Primary
• Whitney v. California
• Wickard v. Filburn
• Willson v. Blackbird Creek Marsh Co.
• Wolff Packing Co. v. Court of Industrial Relations
• Wolf v. Colorado
• Woodbury, Levi (22 Dec. 1789)
• World War I
• World War II
• Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer
• Zorach v. Clauson