The Annotated Bibliography: C
355 of 5159 works · revised October 26, 2026
By author, the way the By Author PDF is ordered. What the notes and access labels mean is on the bibliography’s front page.
Cadman, Wilson K. Distribution of Nominations and Appointments to the United States Supreme Court. Wichita, KS: n.p., 1951.
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Caldwell, Russell L. “The Influence of the Federal Bar upon the Interpretation of the Constitution by the Supreme Court under John Marshall.” Ph.D. diss., University of Southern California, 1948.
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Callen, Earl, and Henning Leidecker, Jr. “A Mean Life on the Supreme Court: The Use of a Mathematics Technique Called Poisson Distribution Can Provide Some Startling and Informative Insights into the Age and Length of Service of Supreme Court Justices both in the Past and the Future.” American Bar Association Journal 57 (December 1971): 1188-1192.
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Calmes, Jackie. Dissent: The Radicalization of the Republican Party and Its Capture of the Court. New York: Twelve, 2021.
Jackie Calmes of the Los Angeles Times on the Kavanaugh confirmation, reported from more than two hundred interviews including new ones with the accusers, and set inside four decades of Republican effort to control the judiciary; Twelve, June 2021, 496 pages. Not read.
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Calvani, Terry. “The Early Legal Career of Howell Jackson.” Vanderbilt Law Review 30 (1977): 39–72.
The one substantial scholarly study of Jackson — the Tennessee Whig's rise through the wreckage of the postwar South to the federal bench.
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Cameron, Charles M., and Jonathan P. Kastellec. Making the Supreme Court: The Politics of Appointments, 1930-2020. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Charles Cameron and Jonathan Kastellec of Princeton on nine decades of appointments and the turn, after about 1980, to litmus tests; Oxford, August 2023, 486 pages, the large book on the subject. Not read.
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Campbell, Bruce A. “John Marshall, the Virginia Political Economy, and the Dartmouth College Decision.” American Journal of Legal History 19 (January 1975): 40-65.
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Campbell, Jeter L. “Justices Douglas and Black and the Democratic Ethos: Rhetorical Criticism of Concurring and Dissenting Opinions on Obscenity, 1954-1975.” Ph.D. diss., University of Minnesota, 1979.
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Campbell, John Archibald. Recollections of the Evacuation of Richmond, April 2d, 1865. Baltimore: John Murphy, 1880.
Campbell's own twenty-seven pages on the night the Confederate government left Richmond, written fifteen years on and printed by John Murphy of Baltimore in 1880: the former Justice, by then the Confederacy's Assistant Secretary of War, on what he saw.
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Campbell, John Archibald. Reminiscences and Documents Relating to the Civil War during the Year 1865. Baltimore: John Murphy & Co., 1887.
The fuller record, sixty-eight pages from Murphy of Baltimore in 1887, two years before his death: Campbell's papers and recollections of 1865, the year of the Hampton Roads conference he attended and of the fall of Richmond, put in order by the man himself.
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Campbell, Peter Scott. “John Marshall Harlan’s Political Memoir.” Journal of Supreme Court History 33, no. 3 (2008): 304–321.
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Campbell, Peter Scott. “Louis D. Brandeis and the Death of Samuel D. Warren.” Journal of Supreme Court History 46, no. 3 (2021): 280–291.
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Campbell, Peter Scott. “Notes of a Lost Memoir of Louis D. Brandeis.” Journal of Supreme Court History 43, no. 1 (2018): 27–46.
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Campbell, Peter Scott. “The Civil War Reminiscences of John Marshall Harlan.” Journal of Supreme Court History 32, no. 3 (2007): 249–275.
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Campbell, Thomas P., Jr. “Chancellor Kent, Chief Justice Marshall, and the Steamboat Cases.” Syracuse Law Review 25 (Spring 1974): 497-534.
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Campbell, Tom W. Four Score Forgotten Men. Little Rock, AR: Pioneer Publishing Co., 1950.
A Little Rock publisher's 424 pages with portraits, catalogued by the Library of Congress under the Court's biography; the four score of the title are the justices to 1950. Not seen, and no copy found online.
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Cancian, John. “Justice Jackson: Civil Liberties and State Action under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.” Northeastern Law Review 1951 (May 1951): 3-48.
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Candler, Allen D., and Clement A. Evans. “James Moore Wayne.” In Georgia: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons Arranged in Cyclopedic Form, vol. 3, edited by Allen D. Candler and Clement A. Evans, 536-537. Atlanta: Atlanta State Historical Association, 1906.
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Canellos, Peter S. Revenge for the Sixties: Sam Alito and the Triumph of the Conservative Legal Movement. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2026.
A journalist's biography of Alito, published on 7 April 2026, a fortnight before Hemingway's, and the more skeptical of the two: Canellos, formerly executive editor of Politico and editorial page editor of the Boston Globe, reads the jurisprudence, Dobbs above all, through grievances formed in the 1960s.
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Canellos, Peter S. The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2021.
The readable modern life, and a bestseller for good reason.
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Canfield, Monte, Jr. “Our Constitution Is Colorblind: Mr. Justice Harlan and Modern Problems of Civil Rights.” University of Missouri at Kansas City Law Review 32 (Summer 1964): 292-332.
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Cannon, Jonathan Z. Environment in the Balance: The Green Movement and the Supreme Court. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015.
Jonathan Cannon of Virginia reads the Court's environmental decisions since the 1960s alongside the social science on the movement, and finds early victories giving way to a judicial preference for property, growth and limited government; Harvard, April 2015, 384 pages. Not read.
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Canon, Alfred O. “Mr. Justice Rutledge and the Roosevelt Court.” Vanderbilt Law Review 10 (February 1957): 167-192.
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Capen, Nahum, ed. Writings of Levi Woodbury, LL.D.: Political, Judicial and Literary (3 vols.). Boston: Little, Brown, 1852.
The only published edition of Woodbury's writings — three volumes gathered the year after his death, spanning the political, judicial, and literary careers.
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Caplan, Lincoln. American Justice 2016: The Political Supreme Court. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
Lincoln Caplan of Yale on October Term 2015, the term that ran on eight justices after Scalia's death with the Garland nomination unheard behind it; Penn Press, October 2016, 188 pages, the third of the annual six. Not read.
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Capowski, Vincent J. “The Era of Good Feelings in New Hampshire: The Gubernatorial Campaigns of Levi Woodbury, 1823-1824.” Historical New Hampshire 21 (Winter 1966): 3-30.
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Capowski, Vincent J.; Philip D. Wheaton. "The Making of a Jacksonian Democrat" (Fordham diss., 1966) & "Levi Woodbury, Jacksonian Financier" (Maryland diss., 1955).
Two doctoral dissertations — the rise to 1831, and the Treasury years — that between them contain most of a biography that was never written.
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Capozzola, Christopher. “Body and Soul: The Selective Draft Law Cases and World War I.” Journal of Supreme Court History 44, no. 3 (2019): 295–306.
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Cardozo, Benjamin N. Law and Literature and Other Essays and Addresses. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1931.
The collection whose title essay is a classic on judicial prose — Cardozo, himself one of the great stylists ever to sit on a bench, on the craft of the written opinion.
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Cardozo, Benjamin N. Law Is Justice: Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo. Edited by A. Sainer. New York: Ad Press Limited, 1938.
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Cardozo, Benjamin N. Selected Writings. Edited by Margaret E. Hill. New York: Fallon Publications, 1947.
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Cardozo, Benjamin N. The Growth of the Law. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1924.
The sequel to The Nature of the Judicial Process — Cardozo's further meditation on how judges make law within the constraints of precedent and principle.
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Cardozo, Benjamin N. The Jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals of the State of New York. Albany, NY: Banks, 1903.
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Cardozo, Benjamin N. The Nature of the Judicial Process. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1921.
The most influential little book ever written about judging, drawn from Cardozo's 1921 Storrs Lectures at Yale.
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Cardozo, Benjamin N. The Paradoxes of Legal Science. New York: Columbia University Press, 1928.
The third of the lecture books, after The Nature of the Judicial Process and The Growth of the Law: v and 142 pages from the Columbia University Press in 1928, under the James S. Carpentier Foundation, on the tensions the law has to hold, catalogued under jurisprudence, justice and liberty.
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Cardozo, Benjamin N. “Mr. Justice Holmes.” Harvard Law Review 44 (March 1931): 682-692.
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Cardozo, Michael H. “The Judicial Bookshelf‒Continued.” Journal of Supreme Court History 17 (1992): 137–140.
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Carlton, Mabel M. John Marshall, the Great Chief Justice. Boston: John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1925.
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Carmen, Ira H. “One Civil Libertarian among Many: The Case of Mr. Justice Cardozo.” Michigan Law Review 65 (December 1966): 301-336.
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Carmen, Ira H. “The President, Politics, and the Power of Appointment: Hoover's Nomination of Mr. Justice Cardozo (February 15, 1932).” Virginia Law Review 55 (May 1969): 616-659.
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Carmon, Irin, and Shana Knizhnik. Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. New York: Dey Street Books, 2015.
The book that crystallized the phenomenon — an affectionate, illustrated life built from the Tumblr that made an octogenarian justice a pop-culture hero, blending the biography with her landmark dissents.
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Carney, J. C. “John Marshall.” Iowa State Bar Association Proceedings 17 (1911): 59-73.
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Carney, Thomas E. “The Political Judge: Justice John McLean's Pursuit of the Presidency.” Ohio History 111 (2002): 121–144.
The dedicated study of McLean's perennial candidacies — courted by the Anti-Masons, Whigs, Free Soilers, and Republicans across nearly forty years while sitting as a justice.
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Carolyn, Marie. “The Legal Philosophy of Edward Douglass White.” University of Detroit Law Journal 35 (December 1957): 174-199.
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Carpenter, William S. Judicial Tenure in the United States with Special Reference to the Tenure of Federal Judges. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1918.
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Carr, M. Kelly. The Rhetorical Invention of Diversity: Supreme Court Opinions, Public Arguments, and Affirmative Action. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2018.
How diversity was invented as the constitutional rationale for race-conscious admissions in and after Bakke, and how Powell fused individualism with multiculturalism to bridge the Court's divisions, read from the briefs, memoranda and draft opinions by M. Kelly Carr; Michigan State, May 2018, 294 pages. Not read.
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Carrington, Adam. “Police the Border: Justice Field on Immigration as a Police Power.” Journal of Supreme Court History 40, no. 1 (2015): 20–37.
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Carrington, R. W. “The Impeachment Trial of Samuel Chase.” Virginia Law Review 9 (May 1923): 485-500.
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Carruthers, Stephen M. “A Survey of Justice Anthony Kennedy's Ninth Circuit International Law Opinions.” Connecticut Journal of International Law 3 (Spring 1988): 501-512.
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Carson, Hampton L. The Supreme Court of the United States: Its History, and Its Centennial Celebration, February 4th, 1890. Philadelphia: J. Y. Huber, 1891.
The Court's own centennial book, 745 pages with fifty-three portrait plates, prepared for the New York State Bar Association's celebration of February 4, 1890, and recast in 1902 as a two-volume history with biographies of all fifty-eight justices to that date; public domain and free to read.
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Carson, Hampton L. “James Wilson and James Iredell: A Parallel and a Contrast.” American Bar Association Journal 7 (March 1921): 123-136.
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Carson, Hampton L. “John Marshall.” Western Reserve Law Journal 7 (March 1901): 31-47.
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Carson, Hampton L. “Memorial Tribute to Edward Douglass White.” Reports of the American Bar Association 46 (1921): 25-30.
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Carson, Hampton L. “Oration.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 55 (January 1907): 35-46.
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Carswell, William B. “Benjamin Nathan Cardozo.” Brooklyn Law Review 8 (October 1938): 1-3.
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Carter, Edward L. and James C. Phillips. “The Mormon Education of a Gentile Justice: George Sutherland and Brigham Young Academy.” Journal of Supreme Court History 33, no. 3 (2008): 322–340.
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Carter, Newman. “Edward D. White in Personal Retrospect.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1979 (1979): 5-7.
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Carter, Robert L. “Mr. Justice Marshall: Some Private Reflections.” Bombay Law Journal 6 (1979): 12-22.
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Carter, Robert L. “Reflections on Justice Marshall.” Journal of Supreme Court History 17 (1992): 15–18.
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Carter, Stephen. “The Confirmation Mess.” Harvard Law Review 101 (April 1988): 1185-1201.
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Casper, Gerhard. “The Liberal Faith: Some Observations on the Legal Philosophy of Mr. Justice William O. Douglas.” Federal Bar Journal 22 (Summer 1962): 179-194.
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Cassidy, Lewis C. The Catholic Ancestry of Chief Justice White. Philadelphia: Patterson and White, 1927.
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Cassidy, Lewis C. “An Evaluation of Chief Justice White.” Mississippi Law Journal 10 (February 1958): 136-153.
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Cassidy, Lewis C. “The Life of Edward Douglass White: Soldier, Statesman, Jurist, 1845-1921.” Ph.D. diss., Georgetown University, 1923.
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Cassoday, John B. “James Kent and Joseph Story.” Yale Law Journal 12 (January 1903): 146-153.
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Cassoday, John B. “John Scott and John Marshall.” American Law Review 33 (January/February 1899): 1-27.
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Castle, Linda L. “Rehnquist, the Partisan, Meets the Press.” American Bar Association Journal 71 (May 1985): 132.
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Casto, William R. "James Iredell and the American Origins of Judicial Review." Connecticut Law Review 27, no. 2 (1995).
An influential specialized study arguing that Iredell grounded judicial review in popular sovereignty and the authority of a written constitution, rather than in judicial enforcement of free-floating natural law.
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Casto, William R. "Oliver Ellsworth: 'I have sought the felicity and glory of your Administration.'" In Seriatim: The Supreme Court Before John Marshall. 1998.
The best concise, Court-centered introduction — Ellsworth's judicial service in thirty pages (pp. 292–321), with particular attention to his deference to the executive in foreign affairs and his practical, Connecticut-bred jurisprudence.
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Casto, William R. Oliver Ellsworth and the Creation of the Federal Republic. Second Circuit Committee on History and Commemorative Events, 1997.
The essential scholarly study of Ellsworth's constitutional work, by the historian who has done more than anyone to recover him — authoritative on the Judiciary Act's drafting, Ellsworth's Calvinist intellectual formation, and his statecraft.
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Casto, William R. The Supreme Court in the Early Republic: The Chief Justiceships of John Jay and Oliver Ellsworth. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1995.
The standard scholarly account of the pre-Marshall Court as an institution — circuit riding, the grand jury charges, Chisholm, the refusal of advisory opinions, and the move away from seriatim opinions.
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Casto, William R. “Oliver Ellsworth's Calvinism: A Biographical Essay on Religion and Political Psychology in the Early Republic.” Journal of Church and State 36, no. 3 (1994): 507–526.
The best single piece on what actually made Ellsworth run.
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Casto, William R. “Oliver Ellsworth.” Journal of Supreme Court History 21, no. 2 (1996): 73–91.
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Cate, Wirt A. Lamar and the Frontier Hypothesis. Baton Rouge: Franklin Press, 1935.
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Cate, Wirt Armistead. Lucius Q.C. Lamar: Secession and Reunion. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1935.
The big one — nearly six hundred pages from the University of North Carolina Press, written when men who had known Lamar were barely a generation gone.
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Catron, John. "Biographical Letter from Justice Catron." United States Monthly Law Magazine 5, no. 2 (1852): 145–151.
The self-made man tells his own story: the poverty, the missing schooling, the war service under Jackson, the mountain practice.
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Center, White Burkett Miller. The Office of the Chief Justice. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1984.
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Chafee, Zechariah, Jr. “Charles Evans Hughes.” American Philosophical Society Proceedings 93 (June 1959): 267-281.
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Chafee, Zechariah, Jr. “Liberal Trends in the Supreme Court.” Current History 35 (December 1931): 338-344.
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Chambers, John. “The Big Switch: Justice Roberts and the Minimum-Wage Cases.” Labor History 10 (Winter 1969): 44-73.
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Champagne, Anthony, and Dennis Pope. “Joseph P. Bradley: An Aspect of a Judicial Personality.” Political Psychology 6 (September 1985): 481-493.
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Chandler, Adam D. “Slow and Steady: David Souter's Life in the Law.” Yale Law Journal Forum (2010).
The best short study of Souter's jurisprudence — a refutation of the 'stealth justice' caricature, showing a consistent Harlan-style common-law incrementalism running from the confirmation hearings to the late dissents.
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Chandler, Walter. "The Centenary of Associate Justice John Catron." Tennessee Law Review 15, no. 1 (1937): 32–51.
The home-state tradition's fullest tribute, marking a hundred years from the 1837 appointment — commemorative in the manner of the genre (compare O'Rear on Todd and Schneider on Trimble), with Tennessee detail the national literature skips.
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Chandler, Walter. Address on the Centenary of Associate Justice John Catron of the United States Supreme Court. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1937.
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“Character of Mr. Justice Day.” American Law Review 37 (May/June 1903): 402-403.
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Charles Evans Hughes Papers — Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1836–1950.
The Library's collection, 61,000 items in 233 containers, 86 linear feet and 150 reels of microfilm, bulk 1905 to 1940: the finding aid says the Court years 'include proof sheets of the last pages of opinions rendered by the Court circulated among the justices for their comments,' and it holds the Beerits memoranda, 'prepared in the fall of 1933 and spring of 1934 by Henry C. Beerits, who was employed by Hughes to review and organize his papers,' and the papers on which, the finding aid says, Pusey's 1951 biography 'was based.'
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“Charles Evans Hughes, 1862-1948: America's Great Diplomat-Jurist Dies.” American Bar Association Journal 34 (October 1948): 902-903.
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Charns, Alexander. Cloak and Gavel: FBI Wiretaps, Bugs, Informers, and the Supreme Court. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992.
What eight years of Freedom of Information requests and lawsuits pulled out of the FBI: Hoover's wiretaps, informers and disinformation aimed at the justices, and Fortas passing word to the Bureau and the White House from inside the Court.
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Chase, Harold W. Federal Judges: The Appointing Process. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1972.
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Chase, Harold W. “Catholics on the Court.” New Republic 143 (September 26, 1960): 13.
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Chase, Salmon P. Maintain Plighted Faith: Speech... in the Senate, February 3, 1854, against the Repeal of the Missouri Prohibition of Slavery North of 36°30'. Washington, DC: J. T. and L. Towers, 1854.
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Chase, Salmon P. “Memoranda: Mr. Justice Catron.” United States Reports 70 (1865): ix-xiv.
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Chase, Salmon P. “Memoranda: Mr. Justice Wayne.” United States Reports 73 (1867): vii-x.
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Chase, Salmon P. “Resignation of Mr. Justice Grier.” United States Reports 75 (1870): vii-xix.
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Chase, Salmon P., and Charles D. Cleveland. Anti-Slavery Addresses of 1844 and 1845. Philadelphia: S. Low, Son, and Marston, 1867.
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Cheatham, Elliott E. “Stone on Conflicts of Laws.” Columbia Law Review 46 (September 1946): 719-734.
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Chemerinsky, Erwin. A Court Divided: October Term 2023. Chicago: American Bar Association, Judicial Division, 2024.
Chemerinsky's ABA review of October Term 2023, at 272 pages the longest of the five; November 2024, the fourth of the annual series. Not read.
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Chemerinsky, Erwin. A Momentous Year in the Supreme Court: October Term 2021. Chicago: American Bar Association, Judicial Division, 2022.
Chemerinsky's ABA review of October Term 2021, the term of Dobbs and Bruen, arranged by topic; 160 pages, November 2022, the second of the annual series. Not read.
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Chemerinsky, Erwin. Closing the Courthouse Door: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017.
Erwin Chemerinsky on standing, immunity, federal jurisdiction and habeas as the doctrines that made constitutional rights practically unenforceable in federal court, told through people left with no remedy at all; Yale, 2017, 262 pages. Not read.
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Chemerinsky, Erwin. Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights. New York: Liveright, 2021.
Erwin Chemerinsky on how the Court's criminal-procedure doctrine empowered the police, with the Warren years as the exception rather than the rule and stop-and-frisk and the limits on suing police departments as the evidence; Liveright, August 2021, 320 pages. Not read.
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Chemerinsky, Erwin. The Case Against the Supreme Court. New York: Viking, 2014.
Erwin Chemerinsky's two-century indictment, that the Court has failed at protecting minorities and restraining government in crises more often than it has succeeded, ending with reform proposals including term limits; Viking, 2014, 386 pages. Not read.
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Chemerinsky, Erwin. The Supreme Court in Transition: October Term 2020. Chicago: American Bar Association, Judicial Division, 2021.
The first of Erwin Chemerinsky's annual term reviews for the ABA's Judicial Division, on October Term 2020, the major cases arranged by topic and their consequences weighed without a verdict; 164 pages, October 2021. Not read.
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Chemerinsky, Erwin. The Supreme Court October Term 2024: Taking Sides. Chicago: American Bar Association, Judicial Division, 2025.
Chemerinsky's ABA review of October Term 2024, whose title, Taking Sides, is his reading of a term decided along the ideological divide; November 2025, the fifth of the annual series and the one the Library of Congress catalogued. Not read.
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Chemerinsky, Erwin. The Supreme Judiciary: October Term 2022. Chicago: American Bar Association, Judicial Division, 2023.
Chemerinsky's ABA review of October Term 2022, which its own page says broke the pattern of a quiet term after a blockbuster one; 154 pages, October 2023, the third of the annual series. Not read.
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Chesley, J. Harry. “The Ancestry of Chief Justice Marshall.” American Law Review 35 (January/February 1901): 112-115.
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“Chief Justice Burger Proposes First Step toward Certification of Trial Advocacy Specialists.” American Bar Association Journal 60 (February 1974): 171-174.
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“Chief Justice Vinson and His Law Clerks.” Northwestern University Law Review 49 (1954): 26.
The collective memoir of the Northwestern graduates who clerked for him, written for the memorial number and closing with a table of all his clerks.
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Chin, Gabriel J. “The Plessy Myth: Justice Harlan and the Chinese Cases.” Iowa Law Review 82 (1996): 151.
The canonical corrective to Harlan hagiography — the great color-blind dissenter was reliably hostile to Chinese litigants, in Plessy's own text ('a race so different from our own') and beyond.
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Ching, Miriam. “Extrajudicial Writings of Supreme Court Justices.” Journal of Supreme Court History 15 (1990): 69–78.
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Chittenden, Lucius E. “Secretary Chase and His Financial Policy.” In Personal Reminiscences, 1840-1890, Including Some Not Hitherto Published of Lincoln and the War, by Lucius E. Chittenden, 90-100. New York: Richmond, Croscup, 1893.
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Choate, Joseph H. “Melville Weston Fuller.” Harvard Graduates' Magazine 19 (September 1910): 11-14.
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Chrisman, Robert, and Robert L. Allen, eds. Court of Appeal: The Black Community Speaks Out on the Racial and Sexual Politics of Clarence Thomas vs. Anita Hill. New York: Ballantine, 1992.
Forty-one essays gathered by the editors of The Black Scholar, ranging from conservative to radical, with the hearing chronology and organizational position papers, on how Black America argued over Thomas and Hill.
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Christensen, Barbara B. “Mr. Justice Whittaker: The Man on the Right.” Santa Clara Law Review 19 (1979): 1039-1062.
The fullest article-length study before the two biographies: the boyhood, the night law school, the votes, and the testimony of the colleagues on how he worked (Warren: 'His entire preoccupation was with the law.
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Christensen, Courtney. “Trop v. Dulles: How Earl Warren’s Contradicting Legal Opinions Secured Trop’s Victory.” Journal of Supreme Court History 46, no. 3 (2021): 331–349.
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Christensen, George A. “Here Lies the Supreme Court: Gravesites of the Justices.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1983 (1983): 17-30.
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Christensen, George A. “Here Lies the Supreme Court: Revisited.” Journal of Supreme Court History 33, no. 1 (2008): 17–41.
A census of the justices' graves, and it earns its place here because for Woods the small verifiable facts are the scarce ones.
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Christian, George L. “Roger Brooke Taney.” American Law Review 46 (January 1912): 1-23.
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Christman, Henry H., ed. The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966.
The one item Friedman and Israel's chapter names: Christman's selection of the Chief Justice's speeches and opinions, published in 1966 while he still sat, xi and 237 pages.
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Christman, Henry M. “Supreme Court from Taft to Warren.” Saturday Review 41 (October 11, 1958): 40.
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Cibes, William J., Jr. “Extra-Judicial Activities of Justices of the United States Supreme Court, 1790-1960.” Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1975.
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Claiborne, Louis F. “The Noblest Roman of Them All: A Tribute to Justice Marshall.” Journal of Supreme Court History 17 (1992): 19–21.
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Clancy, Martin, and Tim O'Brien. Murder at the Supreme Court: Lethal Crimes and Landmark Cases. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2013.
Two reporters, Martin Clancy and Tim O'Brien, pair each capital ruling with the crime behind it and follow both from the scene to the execution chamber, beginning with the 1969 vote that nearly abolished the death penalty; Prometheus, 2013, 410 pages. Not read.
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Clark, Benjamin. Contending for American Nationhood: Joseph Story and the Debate over a Federal Common Law. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2024.
A 2024 monograph on Story's nationalism by Benjamin Clark, a senior lecturer at Georgia College & State University: the early Republic's fight over whether there was a federal common law, read as a contest between the compact theory of the Union and the nationalist theory Story championed, a battle Story lost and a war his side won.
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Clark, Floyd Barzilia. The Constitutional Doctrines of Justice Harlan. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1915.
The first scholarly study of Harlan's jurisprudence — a Johns Hopkins monograph published four years after his death, dated in method but foundational, and still cited for its early map of the great dissents.
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Clark, Frederic L. “Mr. Justice Roberts: A Sketch.” Pennsylvania Bar Association Quarterly 17 (January 1946): 158-163.
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Clark, Hunter R. Justice Brennan: The Great Conciliator. Birch Lane Press, 1995.
A portrait organized around the quality that made Brennan effective — the warmth and patience with which he built majorities, 'with five votes you can do anything.'
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Clark, Joseph. A Sermon on the Death of the Honorable William Paterson. New Brunswick, NJ: A. Blauvelt, 1806.
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Clark, Lester. “The Palsgraf Theory: What Established Doctrines It Attempted to Alter.” Hastings Law Journal 1 (Fall 1949): 22-27.
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Clark, Mary L. “Women as Supreme Court Advocates, 1879-1979.” Journal of Supreme Court History 30, no. 1 (2005): 47–67.
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Clark, Ramsey. “Tom C. Clark Eulogies.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1978: 5–6.
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Clark, Samuel I. “The Political Philosophy of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.” Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1950.
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Clark, Thomas C. “Administrative Law.” Journal of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia 18 (July 1951): 254-261.
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Clark, Thomas C. “Bill Douglas: A Portrait.” Baylor Law Review 28 (Spring 1976): 215-220.
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Clark, Thomas C. “Citizens, Courts, and the Effective Administration of Justice.” Journal of the American Judicature Society 49 (June 1965): 6-13.
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Clark, Thomas C. “Colorado at the Judicial Crossroads.” Judicature 50 (December 1966): 118-124.
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Clark, Thomas C. “Constitutional Adjudication and the Supreme Court.” Drake Law Review 9 (May 1960): 59-65.
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Clark, Thomas C. “Constitutional Responsibility, Concomitants.” University of Colorado Law Review 37 (Fall 1964): 1-10.
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Clark, Thomas C. “Federal Courts in the United States: Their Work and Administration.” Australian Law Journal 41 (November 1967): 251-260.
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Clark, Thomas C. “Gideon Revisited.” Arizona Law Review 15 (1973): 343-353.
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Clark, Thomas C. “Implementation Story: Where We Must Go.” Judicature 55 (May 1972): 383-388.
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Clark, Thomas C. “Importance of Improving the Image of the Judge.” Trial Judges Journal 3 (January 1964): 1-5.
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Clark, Thomas C. “Internal Operation of the United States Supreme Court.” American Judicature Society Journal 43 (August 1959): 45-51.
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Clark, Thomas C. “Justice: Truth in Action.” New York University Law Review 43 (May 1968): 419-428.
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Clark, Thomas C. “Mr. Justice Frankfurter: A Heritage for 'All Who Love the Law.'” American Bar Association Journal 51 (April 1965): 330-332.
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Clark, Thomas C. “Mr. Justice Murphy: A Review Article.” Michigan History 53 (Fall 1969): 247-254.
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Clark, Thomas C. “Parajudges and the Administration of Justice.” Vanderbilt Law Review 24 (November 1971): 1167-1179.
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Clark, Thomas C. “Problems of Change.” Utah Law Review 1968 (September 1968): 347-354.
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Clark, Thomas C. “Religion and the Law.” South Carolina Law Review 15 (1963): 855-866.
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Clark, Thomas C. “Remarks on the Supreme Court of the United States.” Pennsylvania Bar Association Quarterly 31 (June 1960): 430-436.
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Clark, Thomas C. “Reminiscences of an Attorney General Turned Associate Justice.” Houston Law Review 6 (March 1969): 623-629.
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Clark, Thomas C. “Sentencing and Corrections.” University of San Francisco Law Review 5 (October 1970): 1-9.
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Clark, Thomas C. “The American Bar Association Standards for Criminal Justice: Prescription for an Ailing System.” Notre Dame Lawyer 47 (February 1972): 429-441.
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Clark, Thomas C. “The Court and Its Functions.” Albany Law Review 34 (Spring 1970): 497-502.
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Clark, Thomas C. “The Decisional Processes of the Supreme Court.” Cornell Law Quarterly 50 (Spring 1965): 385-393.
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Clark, Thomas C. “The Federal Judicial Center.” Arizona State Law Journal 1974 (1974): 537-547.
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Clark, Thomas C. “The Federal Judiciary: Fifty Years of Progress.” Federal Bar Journal 29 (Fall 1970): 245-249.
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Clark, Thomas C. “The First Amendment and Minority Rights.” University of Chicago Law Review 36 (Winter 1969): 257-267.
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Clark, Thomas C. “The New Federal Judicial Center.” American Bar Association Journal 54 (1968): 743-746.
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Clark, Thomas C. “The Present State of Trial Advocacy.” DePaul Law Review 12 (Spring/Summer 1963): 185-196.
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Clark, Thomas C. “The Sixties: A Historic Decade in Judicial Improvement.” Brooklyn Law Review 36 (Spring 1970): 331-338.
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Clark, Thomas C. “The Supreme Court as a Protector of Liberty under the Rule of Law.” Marquette Law Review 43 (Summer 1959): 11-19.
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Clark, Thomas C. “The Supreme Court Conference.” Federal Rules Decisions 19 (1956): 303-310.
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Clark, Thomas C. “The Supreme Court Conference.” Texas Law Review 37 (February 1959): 273-278.
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Clark, Tom C. “Tom C. Clark Oral History Interview, March 20, 1976.” Harry S. Truman Library Oral History Program (1976).
The 1949 appointment as he remembered it fifteen months before his death: the summons, 'I want to put you on the Court,' and 'It was just a bolt of lightning for me'; the steel seizure concurrence and the silence that followed, 'I never heard from him one way or the other'; and the verdict, two years after Miller's book had Truman calling him a mistake, that 'Mr.
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Clark, Tom C. “Tom C. Clark Oral History Interview, October 17, 1972 and February 8, 1973.” Harry S. Truman Library Oral History Program (1973).
Tom C. Clark's two Truman Library interviews of 1972 and 1973: the war-fraud cases and Senator Truman, the loyalty program, the West Coast evacuation he later thought 'entirely unnecessary', and the 1946 choice of Vinson, with Hughes's advice and the poker table.
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Clark, Tom S. The Limits of Judicial Independence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Tom S. Clark on judicial independence as something Congress can take back, built on interviews with justices, legislators and staff and on data covering every Court-curbing bill introduced since 1877; Cambridge, November 2010, 356 pages, in the Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions series. Not read.
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Clark, Tom S. The Supreme Court: An Analytic History of Constitutional Decision Making. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Tom Clark's quantitative history of constitutional law since Reconstruction, which sets out to join the humanistic and the social-scientific accounts of how doctrine develops; Cambridge, March 2019, 428 pages. Not read.
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Clark, Walter. “The Election of Federal Judges by the People.” Albany Law Journal 67 (August 1905): 235-237.
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Clarke, John H. “How the United States Supreme Court Works.” American Bar Association Journal 9 (February 1923): 80-82.
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Clarke, John H. “Judicial Power to Declare Legislation Unconstitutional.” American Bar Association Journal 9 (November 1923): 689-692.
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Clarke, John H. “Methods of Work of the United States Supreme Court Judges.” Ohio Law Reporter 20 (November 27, 1922): 398-408.
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Clarke, John H. “Practice before the Supreme Court.” Virginia Law Register 8 (August 1922): 241-252.
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Clarke, John H. “Reminiscences of the Courts and Law.” Proceedings of the California State Bar Association 5 (1932): 20-31.
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Clarke, John H. “The 'New Federalist Series': Judicial Power to Declare Legislation Unconstitutional.” American Bar Association Journal 9 (November 1923): 689-692.
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Clarke, John H. “The Naked Question of the Constitutionality of the Court Proposal.” Vital Speeches 3 (April 1937): 369-370.
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Clarke, Mary M. “Justice Murphy and the Problem of Civil Liberties.” Ph.D. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1952.
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Clarkson, S. James. “Judicial Robes.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1980: 90–93.
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Clawson, Rosalee A., and Eric N. Waltenburg. Legacy and Legitimacy: Black Americans and the Supreme Court. Temple University Press, 2009.
Rosalee Clawson and Eric Waltenburg on Black Americans and the Court, using survey data, experiments and a comparison of mainstream and Black press coverage to test legitimacy theory, and finding that Black citizens with higher diffuse support move toward the Court's decisions even when they dislike them; Temple University Press, December 2008, 231 pages. Not read.
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Clayton, Cornell W., and Howard Gillman, eds. Supreme Court Decision-Making: New Institutionalist Approaches. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
The Chicago half of the new institutionalist pair, 344 illustrated pages from 1999 on decision making, judicial process and law and politics; the Kansas twin is on this shelf beside it. No copy found online. Not read.
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Clifford, Philip Greely. Nathan Clifford, Democrat (1803–1881). New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.
The grandson is loyal but not blind, and the book preserves correspondence and Maine detail found nowhere else: the party man's climb — Jacksonian legislator, Polk's Attorney General, the minister who carried the ratified Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Buchanan's doughface appointee.
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Clifton, James M. "Alfred Moore." Dictionary of North Carolina Biography (William S. Powell, ed.) (1991).
The best available account of Moore's whole life: the Cape Fear planter dynasty, Revolutionary service at Moore's Creek Bridge and Charleston, the resignation from the army after his father's death, the British destruction of his Buchoi rice plantation, nine years as North Carolina's attorney general, the appointment to Iredell's seat, and the quiet exit.
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Clinton, Robert L. “Precedent as Mythology: The Case of Marbury v. Madison.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1989: 78–97.
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Clinton, Robert Lowry. “Bibliography [Books on John Marshall].” Journal of Supreme Court History 27, no. 3 (2002): 304.
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Clinton, Robert Lowry. “The Supreme Court Before John Marshall.” Journal of Supreme Court History 27, no. 3 (2002): 222–239.
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Clouatre, Douglas. Presidents and Their Justices. University Press of America, 2010.
Douglas Clouatre's account of presidential Supreme Court appointments, built on a 2005 expert survey and grouped into successful appointments by great presidents, failed appointments by great presidents and successful appointments by mediocre ones, with Harding, Grant, Kennedy, Reagan and Franklin Roosevelt discussed and Hoover ranked high and Truman low; University Press of America, September 2010, 277 pages. Not read.
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Clute, O. “Justice Samuel F. Miller.” Iowa Historical Record 7 (April 1891): 90-95.
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Coan, Andrew. Rationing the Constitution: How Judicial Capacity Shapes Supreme Court Decision-Making. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019.
Andrew Coan of Arizona on the consequence of a Court that can decide only a sliver of the constitutional questions put to it: it must choose hard-edged categorical rules or deference, and capacity rather than theory explains much of what it does; Harvard, April 2019, 280 pages. Not read.
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Coburn, Frederick W. “Who Is This Man Brandeis?” Human Life 12 (February 9, 1911): 9.
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Cohen, Adam. Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America. New York: Penguin Press, 2020.
Adam Cohen sets the Warren Court's expansion of rights against the fifty years since Nixon and argues that the Court has been one of the engines of American economic inequality; Penguin Press, 2020, 416 pages. Not read.
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Cohen, Felix S. “The Holmes-Cohen Correspondence.” Journal of the History of Ideas 9 (January 1948): 3-52.
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Cohen, Jeremy. Congress Shall Make No Law: Oliver Wendell Holmes, the First Amendment, and Judicial Decision Making. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1989.
A short monograph on Holmes and the First Amendment, the ground Healy's The Great Dissent covers at book length twenty-four years later, read here as a study in how a judge decides: the speech cases and the reasoning behind them, with a fourteen-page bibliography.
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Cohen, Jerome A. “Mr. Justice Frankfurter.” California Law Review 50 (October 1962): 591-597.
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Cohen, Morris L., and Sharon Hamby O’Connor. A Guide to the Early Reports of the Supreme Court of the United States. Littleton, CO: Fred B. Rothman & Co., 1995.
A bibliography of the United States Reports themselves: the nominative era, volume by volume, with biographical summaries of the early Reporters from Dallas to Wallace — the men whose names are the citations — in 237 pages.
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Cohen, Morris R. “Benjamin Nathan Cardozo.” National Lawyers Guild Quarterly 1 (September 1938): 238-286.
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Cohen, Morris R. “Justice Holmes and the Nature of Law.” Columbia Law Review 31 (March 1931): 352-367.
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Cohen, Richard E. “Conservatives Step Up Efforts to Promote Reagan-Minded Judges to U.S. Bench.” National Journal 17 (July 6, 1985): 1560-1563.
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Cohen, Richard E. “Mixed Cases, Burger Activism Mark Supreme Court Record.” National Journal Reports 6 (July 6, 1974): 1005-1013.
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Cohen, Saul. “Justice Holmes and the Copyright Law.” Southern California Law Review 32 (Spring 1959): 263-279.
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Cohen, Sheldon S. “The Court Diary of Justice William O. Douglas: Preface.” Journal of Supreme Court History 20 (1995): 77.
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Cohen, William. “Freedom to Be Foolish: The Douglas Inquiry.” Center Magazine 11 (June 1978): 2-6.
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Cohen, William. “Justice Douglas: A Law Clerk's View.” University of Chicago Law Review 26 (Autumn 1958): 6-8.
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Cohen, William. “Justices Black and Douglas and the 'Natural-Law-Due Process Formula.'” U.C. Davis Law Review 20 (Winter 1987): 381-395.
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Cohn, Haim H. “The First Fifty Years of the Supreme Court of Israel.” Journal of Supreme Court History 24, no. 1 (1999): 3–15.
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Cohn, Henry S. “Mr. Justice Douglas and Federal Taxation.” Connecticut Bar Journal 45 (June 1971): 218-243.
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Cohodas, Nadine. “Cautious Senate Wants to Like Judge Kennedy.” Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report 45 (November 14, 1987): 2786-2788.
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Cohodas, Nadine. “Kennedy Hearings Indicate Easy Confirmation.” Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report 45 (December 19, 1987): 3129-3133.
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Cole, Donald B. Jacksonian Democracy in New Hampshire, 1800–1851. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970.
The standard monograph on the political machine Woodbury rode from Concord to the cabinet to the Court — with Woodbury himself as its central figure.
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Cole, Kenneth C. “Mr. Justice Black and 'Senatorial Courtesy.'” American Political Science Review 31 (December 1937): 1113-1115.
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Cole, Kenneth C. “The Role of the Senate in the Confirmation of Judicial Nominations.” American Political Science Review 28 (October 1934): 875-894.
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Coleman, Elizabeth D. “Till Death Did Them Part.” Virginia Cavalcade 6 (Autumn 1955): 14-19.
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Coleman, William T., Jr. “Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter: Civil Libertarian as Lawyer and as Justice: Extent to Which Judicial Responsibilities Affected His Pre-Court Convictions.” University of Illinois Law Forum 1978 (1978): 279-300.
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Coletta, Paolo E. The Presidency of William Howard Taft. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1973.
The standard scholarly account of the troubled 1909–1913 presidency — the tariff, the Ballinger–Pinchot affair, and the rupture with Theodore Roosevelt that split the Republican Party and cost Taft the White House.
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Collier, Charles S. “The Supreme Court and the Principle Rotation in Office.” George Washington Law Review 6 (May 1938): 401-435.
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Collins, Paul M., Jr. Friends of the Supreme Court: Interest Groups and Judicial Decision Making. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Paul Collins on what amicus briefs actually do, drawn from thousands of decisions between 1946 and 2001 and from law, marketing, political science and social psychology, with the finding that they affect both how the justices vote and whether they write separately; Oxford, August 2008, 248 pages. Not read.
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Collins, Paul M., Jr., and Lori A. Ringhand. Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings and Constitutional Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Paul Collins and Lori Ringhand read more than seventy years of hearing transcripts and argue that the hearings are a genuine democratic forum in which constitutional values are contested and the canon and anti-canon of precedent are made; Cambridge, June 2013, 296 pages. Not read.
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Collins, Paul M., Jr., and Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha. The President and the Supreme Court: Going Public on Judicial Decisions from Washington to Trump. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Why presidents talk publicly about pending cases and criticise decided ones, and what the talk does to how the bureaucracy, Congress, the press and the public receive a ruling, by Paul Collins and Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha, from Washington to Trump; Cambridge, 2019, 267 pages. Not read.
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Collins, Ronald K. L. “Books by Supreme Court Justices.” Journal of Supreme Court History 38, no. 1 (2013): 94–117.
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Collyer, Rita. In Defense of the Constitution: Excerpts from Addresses and Opinions of the Chief Justices of the United States and an Excerpt from the Recent Minority Opinion in the So-Called "Gold Clause" Case by Associate Justice McReynolds of the Supreme Court. Washington, DC: n.p., 1935.
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Colucci, Frank J. Justice Kennedy's Jurisprudence: The Full and Necessary Meaning of Liberty. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2009.
The best single study of how Kennedy thought, and the natural starting point given the absence of a full biography.
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Comiskey, Michael. Seeking Justices: The Judging of Supreme Court Nominees. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004.
The modern confirmation process examined chapter by chapter: the Senate's constitutional role, the charge of politicization, whether the process yields good justices, the Thomas hearings, and whether nominees are really 'all that stealthy.'
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Commager, Henry S. “Choosing Supreme Court Judges.” New Republic 162 (May 2, 1970): 13-16.
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Commager, Henry S. “Joseph Story.” In Gaspar G. Bacon Lectures on the Constitution of the United States, 1940-1950. by Arthur N. Holcombe, et al., 31-94. Boston: Boston University Press, 1953.
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Commager, Henry S. “Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.” Cambridge Journal 1 (July 1948): 604-612.
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Compton, John W. “Easing the Shoe Where it Pinches: The Lottery Case and the Demise of Dual Federalism.” Journal of Supreme Court History 40, no. 2 (2015): 133153.
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Conant, Harrison J. “John Marshall and the Recall.” Central Law Journal 81 (August 1927): 147-154.
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Conklin, William E. “The Political Theory of Mr. Justice Holmes.” Chitty's Law Journal 26 (June 1978): 200-211.
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Connally, C. Ellen. “Justice Harlan’s ‘Great Betrayal’? A Reconsideration of Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education.” Journal of Supreme Court History 25, no. 1 (2000): 72–92.
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Connor, Henry G. John Archibald Campbell: Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1853–1861. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1920.
The first biography, written by a sitting federal judge — Henry Groves Connor of North Carolina — with a judge's sympathy for the impossible position.
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Connor, Henry G. “James Iredell: Lawyer, Statesman, Judge, 1751-1799.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 60 (January 1912): 225-253.
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Connor, Henry G. “John Archibald Campbell, 1811-1889.” American Law Review 52 (March/April 1918): 161-214.
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Conover, Denise O. “James F. Byrnes, Germany, and the Cold War, 1946.” Ph.D. diss., Washington State University, 1978.
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Conron, Michael A. “Law, Politics, and Chief Justice Taney: A Reconsideration of the Luther v. Borden Decision.” American Journal of Legal History 11 (October 1967): 377-388.
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Conroy, James B. Our One Common Country: Abraham Lincoln and the Hampton Roads Peace Conference of 1865. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2014.
Campbell aboard the River Queen in February 1865, one of three Confederate commissioners facing Lincoln and Seward — the same Seward whose 1861 assurances he had carried.
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Conry, Joseph A. “Massachusetts in the Supreme Court of the United States and in the Office of the Attorney General.” Massachusetts Law Quarterly 21 (July 1936): 29-37.
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Contee, Clarence G. “Teacher, Healer, Lawyer: The Supreme Court Bar's First Black Member.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1976 (1976): 82-85.
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Coogan, John E. “The Religious Ultimates of Justice Holmes.” American Ecclesiastical Review 132 (February 1955): 73-83.
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Cook, Adrian. The Alabama Claims: American Politics and Anglo-American Relations, 1865–1872. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1975.
The standard monograph on the Alabama Claims settlement — the great Anglo-American arbitration Nelson helped negotiate as a member of the Joint High Commission in 1871, at age seventy-eight, in the most consequential public service of his late career.
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Cook, Beverly B. “The First Woman Candidate for the Supreme Court: Florence E. Allen.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1981 (1981): 19-35.
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Cook, Frank G. “James Wilson.” Atlantic Monthly 64 (September 1889): 316-330.
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Cook, Frank G. “John Rutledge.” Atlantic Monthly 67 (February 1891): 225-236.
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Cook, Frank G. “Oliver Ellsworth and Federation.” Atlantic Monthly 89 (April 1902): 524-536.
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Cook, Frank G. “Oliver Ellsworth, 1745-1807.” In Great American Lawyers: The Lives and Influence of Judges and Lawyers Who Have Acquired Permanent National Reputation, and Have Developed the Jurisprudence of the United States, vol. 1, edited by William D. Lewis, 305-354. Philadelphia: J. C. Winston Company, 1907.
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Cook, Fred J. Fighting for Justice: John Marshall. Chicago: Kingston House, 1961.
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Cook, Stanley A. “Path to the High Bench: The Pre-Supreme Court Career of Justice Edward Terry Sanford.” Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee, 1977.
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Cook, Walter W. “Oliver Wendell Holmes: Scientist.” American Bar Association Journal 21 (April 1935): 211-213.
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Cooke, John E. “Early Days of John Marshall.” Historical Magazine 3 (June 1859): 165-169.
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Cooper, Charles J. “The Lone Dissenter.” Journal of Supreme Court History 46, no. 2 (2021): 229–240.
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Cooper, Charles J., and Nelson Lund. “Landmarks of Constitutional Interpretation: Seven Lessons in the Rule of Law for Justice Brennan.” Policy Review 40 (Spring 1987): 10-24.
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Cooper, Jerome A. "Sincerely Your Friend": Letters of Mr. Justice Hugo L. Black to Jerome A. Cooper. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1973.
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Cooper, Jerome A. “Mr. Justice Hugo Black: A Free Man.” Alabama Law Review 17 (Fall 1964): 195-200.
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Cooper, Jerome A. “Mr. Justice Hugo Lafayette Black of Alabama.” Alabama Law Review 24 (Fall 1972): 1-9.
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Cooper, Jerome A. “Mr. Justice Hugo Lafayette Black of Alabama.” Alabama Lawyer 33 (January 1972): 17-22.
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Cooper, Phillip J. Battles on the Bench: Conflict Inside the Supreme Court. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995.
Conflict among the justices as a subject in itself, the interpersonal side of the judicial process, from the University Press of Kansas.
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Cooper, Phillip J. “Justice Douglas and Administrative Law.” Ph.D. diss., Syracuse University, 1978.
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Cooper, Phillip J. “William O. Douglas on Law and Administration in the Modern Government Context.” International Journal of Public Administration 5 (1983): 1-56.
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Corbin, Arthur L. “Mr. Justice Cardozo and the Law of Contracts.” Columbia Law Review 39 (January 1939): 56-87.
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Corbin, Arthur L. “Mr. Justice Cardozo and the Law of Contracts.” Harvard Law Review 52 (January 1939): 408-439.
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Corbin, Arthur L. “Mr. Justice Cardozo and the Law of Contracts.” Yale Law Journal 48 (January 1939): 426-457.
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Cordray, Richard, and James Vrodelis. “The Emerging Jurisprudence of Justice O'Connor.” University of Chicago Law Review 52 (Spring 1985): 389-459.
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Corley, Pamela C. Concurring Opinion Writing on the U.S. Supreme Court. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2010.
Pamela Corley on the concurrence as an instrument: an expression of preference over legal rules and a form of dialogue with colleagues, the bar, the public and Congress; State University of New York Press, 2010, 158 pages, in the SUNY series in American Constitutionalism. Not read.
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Corley, Pamela C., Amy Steigerwalt, and Artemus Ward. The Puzzle of Unanimity: Consensus on the United States Supreme Court. Stanford Law Books, 2013.
Why about a third of the Court's cases come out unanimous: Pamela Corley, Amy Steigerwalt and Artemus Ward test legal certainty as the constraint on ideological preference across the decisions of 1953 to 2004, using the Supreme Court Database, internal documents and the justices' papers; Stanford Law Books, May 2013, 216 pages. Not read.
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Corley, Pamela C., Amy Steigerwalt, and Artemus Ward. When Dissents Matter: Judicial Dialogue through US Supreme Court Opinions. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2023.
The first systematic study of whether dissents move later majorities, from the justices' papers and new data, by Pamela Corley, Amy Steigerwalt and Artemus Ward; Virginia, 2023, 164 pages. Not read.
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Corley, Pamela C., Amy Steigerwalt, and Artemus Ward. “Revisiting the Roosevelt Court: The Critical Juncture from Consensus to Dissensus.” Journal of Supreme Court History 38, no. 1 (2013): 20–50.
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Corwin, Edward S. Court over Constitution: A Study of Judicial Review as an Instrument of Popular Government. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1938.
Corwin's 1938 study of judicial review 'as an instrument of popular government', written the year after the court-packing fight; reprinted by Peter Smith and by Hein.
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Corwin, Edward S. John Marshall and the Constitution: A Chronicle of the Supreme Court. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1919.
Corwin's short life-and-Court, written for Yale's Chronicles of America in 1919, the short way in: the man and his Court in 242 pages, by the author of The Doctrine of Judicial Review (1914).
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Corwin, Edward S. The Twilight of the Supreme Court: A History of Our Constitutional Theory. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1934.
Corwin's 1934 history of American constitutional theory, published as the New Deal cases were reaching the Court and titled for where he thought the Court's power was heading; reprinted in 1970.
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Corwin, Edward S. “John Marshall, Revisionist Malgré Lui.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 104 (October 1955): 9-22.
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Corwin, Edward S. “Statesmanship on the Supreme Court.” American Scholar 9 (Spring 1940): 159-163.
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Cory, John. “Fortas Controversy, Strom's Dirty Movies: Washington Report.” Harpers 237 (December 1968): 30-40.
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Cotter, Daniel S. The Chief Justices: The Seventeen Men of the Center Seat, Their Courts, and Their Times. Twelve Tables Press, 2019.
A chapter apiece for all seventeen chiefs from Jay to Roberts: how each reached the center seat, who sat beside him, and the decisions his Court is remembered for — a survey rather than a reference.
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Cottrol, Robert J., and Brannon P. Denning. To Trust the People with Arms: The Supreme Court and the Second Amendment. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2023.
Robert Cottrol and Brannon Denning's history of the Second Amendment at the Court, broad at the founding, near extinction by the late twentieth century, revived in Heller, McDonald and Bruen; Kansas, October 2023, 376 pages. Not read.
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Coudert, Frederic R. “In Memoriam: Hon. Morrison R. Waite.” In Addresses: Historical, Political, Sociological, by Frederic R. Coudert, 226-229. New York: Putnam's, 1905.
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Coulson, Doug. Judicial Rhapsodies: Rhetoric and Fundamental Rights in the Supreme Court. Amherst: Amherst College Press, 2023.
Doug Coulson of Carnegie Mellon on the high style of the great rights opinions, the judicial rhapsody as a feature of the Court's work rather than a lapse; Amherst College Press, February 2023, and open access at Fulcrum. Not read.
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Countryman, Edwin. "Samuel Nelson." The Green Bag 19, no. 6 (1907): 329–334.
The Gilded Age legal magazine's affectionate profile — the New York bar's memory of its greatest chief justice a generation after his death.
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Countryman, Vern. The Judicial Record of Justice William O. Douglas. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974.
The scholarly counterweight to the biographies' color — Countryman's systematic survey of what Douglas actually did on the bench across thirty-six years, the longest tenure in the Court's history.
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Countryman, Vern. “Contribution of the Douglas Dissents.” Georgia Law Review 10 (Winter 1976): 331-352.
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Countryman, Vern. “Justice Douglas and Freedom of Expression.” University of Illinois Law Forum 1978 (1978): 301-328.
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Countryman, Vern. “Justice Douglas and the Law of Business Regulation.” Banking Law Journal 91 (April 1974): 312-319.
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Countryman, Vern. “Justice Douglas: Expositor of the Bankruptcy Law.” American Bankruptcy Law Journal 51 (Spring 1971): 127-194; (Summer 1971): 247-275.
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Countryman, Vern. “Justice Douglas: Expositor of the Bankruptcy Law.” UCLA Law Review 16 (1969): 773-838.
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Countryman, Vern. “Scholarship and Common Sense.” Harvard Law Review 93 (May 1980): 1407-1415.
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Cover, Robert M. Justice Accused: Antislavery and the Judicial Process. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1975.
One of the most influential books ever written about American judging, and Woodbury is among its exhibits: the study of antebellum judges who applied proslavery law while professing personal opposition — the 'moral-formal dilemma' in its sharpest form.
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Cowen, Benjamin R. “Morrison Remick Waite.” In Great American Lawyers, vol. 7, edited by William D. Lewis, 87-126. Philadelphia: J. C. Winston Company, 1907-1909.
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Cox, Archibald. The Court and the Constitution. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.
Judicial review traced as an evolving practice from English antecedents through desegregation and abortion, written from a frankly liberal standpoint by Watergate's special prosecutor.
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Cox, Archibald. The Warren Court: Constitutional Decision as an Instrument of Reform. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968.
The Warren Court appraised in 144 pages the year before Warren retired, from lectures Cox gave for Harvard Law School in Honolulu in 1967: constitutional decision as an instrument of reform, in the title's phrase.
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Cox, Archibald. “Chief Justice Earl Warren.” Harvard Law Review 83 (November 1969): 1-5.
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Cox, Archibald. “The Influence of Mr. Justice Murphy on Labor Law.” Michigan Law Review 48 (April 1950): 767-810.
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Cox, Susan J. “Justice Robert Jackson and the Evolution of Administrative Law.” Ph.D. diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1983.
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Cox, Thomas H. & Gregory R. Witkowski. “Heart of Dartmouth: Charity, Corporations, and the Supreme Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 49, no. 2 (2024): 138–150.
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Cox, Thomas H. “Contesting Commerce: Gibbons v. Ogden, Steam Power, and Social Change.” Journal of Supreme Court History 34, no. 1 (2009): 56–74.
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Coxe, Alfred C. “In Marshall's Day and Ours.” Columbia Law Review 3 (February 1903): 88-107.
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Coyle, Marcia. The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013.
The best narrative of the Roberts Court's first decade, told through four blockbusters: guns, campaign finance, health care, voting rights.
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Cozart, A. W. “Marshall and Taney: A Parallel.” Georgia Law Review 1 (December 1927): 33-37.
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Craighill, Robert T. “John Marshall.” In The Virginia "Peerage": Sketches of Virginians, by Robert T. Craighill, 231-284. Richmond, VA: Jones, 1880.
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Craigmyle, Thomas S. John Marshall in Diplomacy and in Law. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933.
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Cramton, Roger C., and Paul D. Carrington, eds. Reforming the Court: Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2006.
Essays out of a Duke Law School conference on whether long tenures are a problem, whether term limits could be enacted by statute or would need an amendment, and how the timing of vacancies affects presidential influence, edited by Roger Cramton of Cornell and Paul Carrington of Duke; Carolina Academic Press, Durham, 2006, 516 pages. Not read.
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Craven, W. Frank. “Abraham Smith.” Princetonians, 1776–1783: A Biographical Dictionary, ed. Richard A. Harrison (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981), 201–204.
Four pages on the other man in the 1785 affair, and the only place it is told: Abraham Smith, eldest son of the lawyer Thomas Smith and nephew of the Loyalist chief justice William Smith and of Joshua Hett Smith of the Arnold-André meeting (held, Craven notes, in Thomas Smith's own Haverstraw house), who went into British-held New York in 1779 and may have joined the King's forces.
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Cray, Ed. Chief Justice: A Biography of Earl Warren. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
The fullest cradle-to-grave narrative — Ed Cray's thorough, readable life, strong on the California political career that shaped the man before Eisenhower named him and came to regret it.
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Crew, Spencer R. Thurgood Marshall: A Life in American History. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2019.
Spencer Crew, the Robinson Professor of History at George Mason, on the whole career as one episode in a longer struggle: the Baltimore boyhood, three decades on the road for the NAACP trying segregation cases and pressing local communities to contest discrimination, then the Court and the clients without wealth or power.
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Crockett, Sam. Frankfurter's Red Record. Union, NJ: Christian Educational Association, 1961.
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Cross, Frank B. The Failed Promise of Originalism. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013.
Frank Cross of Texas tests empirically whether originalism constrains ideological preference and concludes that its historical evidence is unreliable and its results indeterminate enough to legitimise any outcome; Stanford Law Books, 2013, 240 pages. Not read.
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Crosskey, William W. Mr. Chief Justice Marshall. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956.
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Crosskey, William W. “John Marshall and the Constitution.” University of Chicago Law Review 23 (Spring 1956): 377-397.
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Cruz, Ted. One Vote Away: How a Single Supreme Court Seat Can Change History. Regnery Publishing, 2020.
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a former Rehnquist clerk and Texas solicitor general, on the rights he says turn on a single vote and therefore on a single seat; Regnery, September 2020, 256 pages, and a political book rather than a study. Not read.
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Cullen, Charles T. “New Light on John Marshall's Legal Education and His Admission to the Bar.” American Journal of Legal History 16 (October 1972): 345-351.
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Cullen, Charles T. “St. George Tucker, John Marshall, and Constitutionalism in the Post-Revolutionary South.” Vanderbilt Law Review 32 (January 1979): 341-345.
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Cullinan, Eustace. “New Chief Justice of the United States.” American Bar Association Journal 39 (November 1953): 988-989.
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Culver, Michael. “An Examination of the July 8, 1838 Letter from Harriet Martineau to United States Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story as It Pertains to United States Copyright Law.” Journal of the Copyright Society 32 (October 1984): 38-45.
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Cummings, Homer S. An Address of Attorney General Cummings before the Supreme Court of the United States in Memory of Associate Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1938.
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Cummings, Homer S., and Charles E. Hughes. “Bar Presents Resolutions in Memory of Justice Cardozo to the Supreme Court.” American Bar Association Journal 25 (January 1939): 33-37.
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Cummings, Walter J. “Tribute to Justice John Paul Stevens.” Chicago-Kent Law Review 56 (Winter 1980): 11-12.
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Cuneo, John R. John Marshall: Judicial Statesman. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975.
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Cunningham, Joe. Remember John Marshall: A Biography of the Great Chief Justice. Dallas: Biographic Press, 1956.
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Currie, David P. The Constitution in the Supreme Court: The First Hundred Years, 1789–1888. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
Case-by-case criticism of the constitutional decisions from Jay to Waite, judging each Court on the craft of its opinions; the first of Currie's two volumes, the second of which carries the method to 1986.
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Currie, David P. The Constitution in the Supreme Court: The Second Century, 1888–1986. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
Case-by-case criticism of constitutional decisions from Fuller to Burger, judging each Court on the craft of its opinions — an approach one reviewer dismissed as "chronology without history."
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Currie, David P. “The Constitution in the Supreme Court: 1921-1930.” Duke Law Journal 1986 (February 1986): 65-144.
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Currie, David P. “The New Deal Court in the 1940s: Its Constitutional Legacy.” Journal of Supreme Court History 22, no. 1 (1997): 87–98.
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Currie, David P.; Frank H. Easterbrook. "The Most Insignificant Justice: A Preliminary Inquiry" & "...Further Evidence." University of Chicago Law Review 50, no. 2 (1983): 466–503.
The most entertaining scholarship ever written about Todd — a deadpan empirical competition for judicial insignificance in which Currie crowns Todd and Easterbrook, marshaling further evidence, presses the claims of Gabriel Duvall.
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Currie, George R. “A Judicial All Star Nine.” Wisconsin Law Review 1964 (January 1964): 3-31.
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Curry, George. “James F. Byrnes.” In The American Secretaries of State and Their Diplomacy, edited by Robert H. Ferrell, 87-317, 340-396, 405-414. New York: Cooper Square Publishers, 1965.
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Curtis, Benjamin R. “Character and Public Service of Chief Justice Taney: Remarks Made at a Meeting of the Boston Bar, October 15, 1864.” In Memoir, vol. 2, by Benjamin R. Curtis, 336-342. Boston: Little, Brown, 1879.
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Curtis, Benjamin R. “Mr. Justice Curtis.” Albany Law Journal 20 (October 25, 1879): 324-326.
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Curtis, Benjamin R. “The Supreme Court.” In Jurisdiction, Practice, and Peculiar Jurisprudence of the Courts of the United States, edited by Henry C. Merwin, 1-63. Boston: Little, Brown, 1896.
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Curtis, Benjamin R., ed. Life and Writings of Benjamin R. Curtis. Boston: Little, Brown, 1879.
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Curtis, Benjamin R., Jr., ed., with George Ticknor Curtis. A Memoir of Benjamin Robbins Curtis, LL.D., with Some of His Professional and Miscellaneous Writings (2 vols.). Boston: Little, Brown, 1879.
The Victorian monument, assembled by his son with his brother George Ticknor Curtis, the constitutional historian — and the indispensable primary trove: correspondence, the poisonous resignation exchange with Taney, the impeachment argument, and the professional writings.
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Curtis, Benjamin Robbins. Executive Power. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1862.
The Dred Scott dissenter against Lincoln: a forty-page pamphlet from Little, Brown in the autumn of 1862 on the proclamations of 22 and 24 September, the preliminary emancipation and the suspension of habeas corpus, arguing that the first 'proposes to repeal and annul valid State laws which regulate the domestic relations of their people' and asking what follows 'if the President of the United States has an implied constitutional right, as commander-in-chief of the army and navy in time of war, to disregard any one positive prohibition of the Constitution.'
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Curtis, Charles P., Jr. Lions under the Throne. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947.
A 1947 study of the Court for the lay reader, in its own words 'addressed particularly to those laymen who know more constitutional law than they think they do, and to those lawyers who know less.'
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Curtis, William E. “The Seven Chief Justices of the United States.” Chautauquan 25 (July 1897): 339-347.
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Cushing, Carolyn K. “The Gallant Captain and the Little Girl.” Atlantic Monthly 155 (May 1935): 545-550.
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Cushing, John D. “A Revolutionary Conservative: The Public Life of William Cushing, 1732–1810.” Ph.D. diss., Clark University, 1960.
No biography of Cushing has ever been published, and this dissertation is the only full-length life ever written: some 350 typed pages, by the John D. Cushing who joined the Massachusetts Historical Society's staff the year he finished it and became its librarian in 1963.
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Cushing, John D. “The Cushing Court and the Abolition of Slavery in Massachusetts: More Notes on the ‘Quock Walker Case.’” American Journal of Legal History 5, no. 2 (1961): 118–144.
The foundational modern examination of the 1783 Jennison ruling that tradition credits with ending slavery in Massachusetts — and of how much (or little) Cushing's jury charge actually decided.
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Cushing, William. Legal notes by William Cushing about the Quock Walker case, [1783] — Massachusetts Historical Society (judicial notebook, pp. 87–99). Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1783.
The notebook itself: thirteen pages in Cushing's hand, with the notes he charged the Jennison jury from in April 1783: the constitution 'sets out with declaring that all men are born free and equal' and is 'totally repugnant to the idea of being born slaves.'
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Cushing, William. “William Cushing, Instructions to the Jury in the Quock Walker Case (1783).” National Constitution Center, Historic Document Library (1783).
The easiest place to read the whole charge: 'the doctrine of slavery and the right of Christians to hold Africans in perpetual servitude,' the 'different idea' that 'has taken place with the people of America more favorable to the natural rights of mankind,' and the conclusion that 'the idea of slavery is inconsistent with our own conduct and Constitution.'
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Cushman, Barry. Rethinking the New Deal Court: The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
The essential modern frame for Roberts's reputation — Cushman's revisionist case that the 1937 'switch in time' was doctrinal evolution, not political capitulation, which if right acquits Roberts of the charge that defines him.
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Cushman, Barry. “Court-Packing in Context.” Journal of Supreme Court History 48, no. 2 (2023): 174–214.
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Cushman, Barry. “The Clerks of the Four Horsemen (Part I).” Journal of Supreme Court History 39, no. 3 (2014): 386–424.
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Cushman, Barry. “The Clerks of the Four Horsemen (Part II, George Sutherland and Pierce Butler).” Journal of Supreme Court History 40, no. 1 (2015): 55–79.
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Cushman, Barry. “The Hughes Court and Constitutional Consultation.” Journal of Supreme Court History 23, no. 1 (1998): 79–111.
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Cushman, Barry. “The Hughes Court Docket Books: The Early Terms, 1929-1933.” Journal of Supreme Court History 40, no. 2 (2015): 103–132.
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Cushman, Barry. “The Missing Justice in Coleman v. Miller.” Journal of Supreme Court History 42, no. 1 (2017): 67–76.
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Cushman, Barry. “The Secret Lives of the Four Horsemen.” Virginia Law Review 83 (1997): 559.
The most-cited essay ever written about the Court's conservative bloc — Cushman's demolition of the cartoon Four Horsemen, drawing on their private papers to recover four working judges rather than four villains.
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Cushman, Clare, ed. The Supreme Court Justices: Illustrated Biographies, 1789–2012. 3rd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: CQ Press, 2013.
The Supreme Court Historical Society's illustrated capsule lives — the reliable standard for a justice with no biography, each with a portrait.
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Cushman, Clare. An Illustrated Guide to the Supreme Court. Washington, DC: Article Books, Supreme Court Historical Society, 2024.
The Supreme Court Historical Society's own illustrated guide to how the Court works, appointment, case selection and decision, by Clare Cushman with an introduction by James C. Duff; Article Books, 2024. Not read.
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Cushman, Clare. Courtwatchers: Eyewitness Accounts in Supreme Court History. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2011.
Memoirs, letters, diaries and newspaper accounts by justices, their families, Court staff and journalists, woven by Clare Cushman of the Supreme Court Historical Society into thematic chapters across more than two centuries, from Daniel Webster addressing the Court in 1844 to John Roberts waiting for the nomination call in 2005; Rowman and Littlefield, October 2011, 312 pages. Not read.
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Cushman, Clare. “Beyond Knox: James C. McReynolds’s Other Law Clerks, 1914-1941.” Journal of Supreme Court History 41, no. 2 (2016): 147–175.
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Cushman, Clare. “Father on the Bench: Justice William R. Day and Kinship Recusal.” Journal of Supreme Court History 46, no. 1 (2021): 62–80.
The only substantial Day scholarship since the 1946 biography — a study of a problem Day lived daily: his sons practiced before the Court, and his recusal practice became an early case study in judicial-family ethics.
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Cushman, Clare. “Fountain Pens and Typewriters: Supreme Court Stenographers and Law Clerks, 1910-1940.” Journal of Supreme Court History 41, no. 1 (2016): 3971.
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Cushman, Clare. “Rookie on the Bench: The Role of the Junior Justice.” Journal of Supreme Court History 32, no. 3 (2007): 282–296.
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Cushman, Clare. “Sons of Ohio: William Rufus Day, Nepotism, and his Law Clerks.” Journal of Supreme Court History 45, no. 3 (2020): 236–261.
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Cushman, Clare. “Wives, Children ... Husbands: Supporting Roles.” Journal of Supreme Court History 36, no. 3 (2011): 264–286.
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Cushman, Clare. “Women Advocates Before the Supreme Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 26, no. 1 (2001): 67–88.
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Cushman, Robert E. “Marshall and the Constitution.” Minnesota Law Review 5 (December 1920): 1-31.
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Custer, Lawrence B. "Bushrod Washington and John Marshall: A Preliminary Inquiry." American Journal of Legal History 4 (1960).
The classic examination of the Court's closest working partnership — whether Bushrod was Marshall's shadow or an independent mind who happened to agree.
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Cutler, H. M. Tracy. “Salmon Portland Chase.” Chicago Times 1 (November 1886): 1-10.
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Cynn, Paul P. “Philip Pendleton Barbour.” John P. Branch Historical Papers of Randolph-Macon College 4 (1913): 67-77.
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