Supreme+Court+Cases

1803, Marbury v Madison (p198) -- Led to judiciary review and voided the Judiciary Act of 1789 1810, Fletcher v Peck (p225) -- Valid contracts - violated despite corruption or not 1819, McCulloch v Maryland (p226) --Confirmed "implied" powers of the federal government 1819, Dartmouth College v Woodward (p228) -- strengthened Fletcher v Peck ruling 1821, Cohens v Virginia (p226) -- Strengthened and constitutionalized federal review 1823, Johnson v McIntosh (p226) -- Only federal government could negotiate with Native Americans 1824, Gibbons v Odgen (p226) Ruled that federal authority superseded state authority 1831, Cherokee Nation v Georgia (p245) -- 1832, Worchester v Georgia (p) -- Precedent to Natives' legal basis 1837, Charles River Bridge v Warren Bridge (p250-51) -- Weakened ruling of Gibbon's v Odgen. It involved a dispute between two MA companies over the right to build a bridge across the Charles River between Boston and Cambridge. Dartmouth College Case - Marshall Court ruled that states had no right to abrogate contracts. 1842, Common wealth v Hunt (p282) -- 1842, Prigg v Pennsylvania, 1842 (p ) Secured "personal liberty laws" and restricted help for Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 1857, Scott v Sanfod (p) -- Condemned slaves to being property only (without legal rights) 1877, Munn v Illinois (p) -- 1896, Plessy v Ferguson (p427) States could institute segregation ("Separate, but Equal" doctrine) 1898, Williams v Mississippi, 1898 (p) -- validated literacy test and voided GF laws on civil rights cases 1886, Wabash, St. Louis, and Pacific Railway Co v Illinois (p527) -- Put control of interstate commerce to Congress 1899, Cumming v County Board of Education (p 433) -- 1915, Guinn v United States (p584) -- 1917, Buchanan v Worley (p594) -- 1937, West Coast Hotel v Parrish (p708) -- 1954, Brown v Board of Education Topeka (821) -- 1962, Baker v Carr (p884) -- 1962, Engel v Vitale (p884) -- 1964, Gideon v Wainwright (p875) -- 1964, Escobedo v Illinois (p875) -- 1965, Griswold v Connecticut (p866) -- 1966, Miranda v Arizona (p875) -- 1971, Swann v Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education (p876) -- 1972, Furman v Georgia (p876) -- 1974, Milliken v Bradley (p876) -- 1974, U.S. v Richard Nixon (p880) -- 1978, Bakke v Board of Regents of California (p885) -- 1985, County of Oneida v Oneida Indian Nation (p867) --

Korematsu v US Roe v Wade U.S. v Nixon Worcester v Madison