The Annotated Bibliography: D
301 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.
Dabney, Virginius. “He Made the Court Supreme.” Saturday Evening Post 228 (September 24, 1955): 36, 121-122, 124.
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Dalin, David G. Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court: From Brandeis to Kagan. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2017.
Collective portrait of the eight Jewish justices from Brandeis to Kagan — their nominations and the antisemitism that met them, the "Jewish seat" convention, and their relations with the presidents who chose them.
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Dane, Stephen M. “'Ordered Liberty' and Self-Restraint: The Judicial Philosophy of the Second Justice Harlan.” University of Cincinnati Law Review 51 (1982): 545-573.
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Danelski, David J. A Supreme Court Justice Is Appointed. New York: Random House, 1964.
A small classic of Court scholarship, and the closest thing to a Butler book.
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Danelski, David J. “A Supreme Court Justice Steps Down.” Yale Review 54 (March 1965): 411-425.
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Danelski, David J. “Justices Douglas and Whittaker in Meyer v. United States: A False Claim Rebutted.” Journal of Supreme Court History 40, no. 2 (2015): 172–186.
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Danelski, David J. “Lucile Lomen: The First Woman to Clerk at the Supreme Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 24, no. 1 (1999): 43–49.
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Danelski, David J. “The Appointment of William O. Douglas to the Supreme Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 40, no. 1 (2015): 80–99.
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Danelski, David J. “The Chief Justice and the Supreme Court.” Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1961.
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Danelski, David J. “The Saboteurs’ Case.” Journal of Supreme Court History 21, no. 1 (1996): 61–82.
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Danelski, David J., and Artemus Ward, eds. The Chief Justice: Appointment and Influence. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2016.
What the Chief Justice can actually do, studied with social-science methods: presiding at argument and conference, speaking first, assigning opinions and leading the Judicial Conference, in essays edited by David Danelski and Artemus Ward; Michigan, August 2016, 464 pages. Not read.
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Danelski, David J., and Joseph S. Tulchin, eds. “Charles Evans Hughes at Cornell: Excerpts from Hughes' Autobiographical Notes.” Cornell Law Review 50 (November 1972): 9-22.
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Danforth, John C. Resurrection: The Confirmation of Clarence Thomas. New York: Viking, 1994.
The 1991 fight as run by Thomas's chief Senate champion — his former boss in Missouri, and an ordained Episcopal priest — who recounts doing whatever it took and nearly losing his soul to rage.
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Dangerfield, George. Chancellor Robert R. Livingston of New York, 1746–1813. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1960.
The book Friedman and Israel send the reader to for want of a biography of Brockholst: Dangerfield's life of the cousin, the Chancellor, in which, as Dunne's bibliography puts it, 'the best picture of Brockholst Livingston is had in the fragmentary and episodic asides.'
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Daniel, Josiah M., III. “'Chief Justice of the United States': History and Historiography of the Title.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1983 (1983): 109-112.
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Daniels, William J. “Geographic Factor in Appointments to United States Supreme Court: 1789-1976.” Western Political Quarterly 31 (June 1978): 226-237.
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Daniels, William J. “Thurgood Marshall and the Administration of Criminal Justice: An Analysis of Dissenting Opinions.” Black Law Journal 6 (Fall 1979): 43-66.
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Danzig, Richard. “How Questions Begot Answers in Felix Frankfurter's First Flag Salute Opinion.” Supreme Court Review 1977 (1977): 257-274.
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Dart, Henry P. “Chief Justice White.” Louisiana Historical Quarterly 5 (April 1922): 141-151.
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Dart, Henry P. “Edward Douglass White.” Loyola Law Journal 3 (November 1921): 1-13.
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Davenport, James H. Western Water Rights and the U.S. Supreme Court. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2020.
A book built on one Van Devanter opinion and what came of it: Wyoming v. Colorado (1922), which held that prior appropriation governs water across state lines and led to the Colorado River Compact.
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Davenport, John. “The U.S., the Law, and Chief Justice Burger.” Fortune 82 (September 1970): 146-150, 180-182.
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Davenport, Ronald R. “Judicial Conservatism and the Supreme Court.” Duquesne Law Review 10 (Winter 1971): 168-176.
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Davenport, Ronald R. “The Second Justice Marshall.” Duquesne Law Review 7 (Fall 1968): 44-60.
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Davenport, Walter. “The Non-Bureaucratic M. Byrnes.” Collier's 111 (January 30, 1943): 11, 28-29.
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“David Josiah Brewer.” Case and Comment 3 (June 1896): 1-2.
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Davies, A. Powell. “Memorial for Justice Wiley Blount Rutledge.” American Bar Association Journal 35 (December 1949): 1008-1009.
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Davies, Ross E. "Recognition and Volition: Remembering the Retirement of Justice Gabriel Duvall." The Journal of Law 4, no. 1 (2014): 1–10.
The strangest endgame of any early justice: profoundly deaf, Duvall would not resign until he understood that Roger Taney, a fellow Marylander, would be nominated for his seat.
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Davies, Ross E. "William Cushing, Chief Justice of the United States." University of Toledo Law Review 37, no. 3 (2006).
A detailed revisionist study of the strange 1796 episode.
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Davies, Ross E. “A Tall Tale of The Brethren.” Journal of Supreme Court History 33, no. 2 (2008): 186–199.
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Davies, Ross E. “The Judicial and Ancient Games: James Wilson, John Marshall Harlan, and the Beginnings of Golf at the Supreme Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 35, no. 2 (2010): 122–143.
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Davies, Ross E. “The Other Supreme Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 31, no. 3 (2006): 221–234.
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Davies, Ross E. “With a Little Help, But Not Quite Enough, From Nine Friends: The Appointment and Disappointment of the Official Reporter of Decisions for the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals.” Journal of Supreme Court History 50, no. 1 (2025): 26–53.
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Davis, Curtis Carroll. The King's Chevalier: A Biography of Lewis Littlepage. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1961.
Where, by Dunne's bibliography, 'A view of his days in Spain and his beginnings in New York may be found': the life of Lewis Littlepage (1762-1802), the Virginian who went to Madrid with Jay, quarrelled with him, and in December 1785 published the charges that drew Brockholst, Jay's secretary, into the public quarrel that the Jay Papers preserve.
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Davis, Elbridge B., and Harold A. Davis. “Mr. Justice Horace Gray: Some Aspects of His Judicial Career.” American Bar Association Journal 41 (May 1955): 421-424, 468-471.
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Davis, Hazel B. Uncle Hugo: An Intimate Portrait of Mr. Justice Black. Amarillo, TX: n.p., 1965.
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Davis, Horace B. “The End of the Holmes Tradition.” University of Kansas City Law Review 19 (December/February 1950-1951): 53-65.
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Davis, John W. “Edward Douglass White.” American Bar Association Journal 7 (August 1921): 377-382.
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Davis, Junius. Alfred Moore and James Iredell, Revolutionary Patriots. Address to the Supreme Court of North Carolina. Raleigh: North Carolina Society of the Sons of the Revolution, 1899.
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Davis, Junius. “James Iredell.” Green Bag 12 (April 1900): 165-172.
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Davis, Michael D., and Hunter R. Clark. Thurgood Marshall: Warrior at the Bar, Rebel on the Bench. Secaucus, NJ: Carol Publishing Group, 1992.
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Davis, Richard, ed. Covering the United States Supreme Court in the Digital Age. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Essays edited by Richard Davis of Brigham Young on the tension between a Court that wants its deliberations private and a press whose job is to report them, with working Court journalists among the contributors; Cambridge, August 2014, 269 pages. Not read.
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Davis, Richard. Electing Justice: Fixing the Supreme Court Nomination Process. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
How the nomination process turned from an elite matter into a public campaign of interest groups, media and public opinion from the late 1960s on, with proposals for fixing it; Oxford, 2005.
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Davis, Richard. Justices and Journalists: The U.S. Supreme Court and the Media. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Richard Davis asking whether the justices are becoming more publicity-conscious and why, from nineteenth- and twentieth-century justices' papers and a content analysis of coverage from 1968 to 2007; Cambridge, February 2011, 264 pages. Not read.
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Davis, Richard. Supreme Democracy: The End of Elitism in Supreme Court Nominations. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Richard Davis of Brigham Young traces the nomination process from quiet settlement among presidents, senators and legal elites to the eighty-one-day media contest of today, stage by stage, and asks whether the democratisation has improved anything; Oxford, July 2017, 288 pages. Not read.
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Davis, Roger W. “An Illustrious Connecticut Statesman.” National History Magazine 74 (April 1940): 29-31, 72.
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Davis, Sue. Justice Rehnquist and the Constitution. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989.
The first serious study of Rehnquist's constitutional philosophy — Sue Davis on the consistent conservatism behind the early solo dissents, written when he was still the Court's right flank rather than its Chief.
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Davis, Sue. “Justice Rehnquist's Equal Protection Clause: An Interim Analysis.” Nebraska Law Review 63 (Spring 1984): 288-313.
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Davis, Sue. “Justice Rehnquist's Judicial Philosophy: Democracy v. Equality.” Polity 17 (Fall 1984): 88-117.
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Davison, J. Forrester. “Mr. Justice Frankfurter: An Appreciation.” George Washington Law Review 31 (December 1962): 327-334.
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Dawson, Nelson L. Louis D. Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter, and the New Deal. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1980.
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Dawson, Nelson L. “Curbing Leviathan: The Social Philosophy of Louis D. Brandeis.” Kentucky Historical Society Register 77 (Winter 1979): 30-45.
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Day, Edward M. “John Marshall.” Connecticut Bar Journal 9 (April 1935): 95-113.
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Day, William R. “Judge Luther Day.” Western Reserve Law Journal 1 (November 1895): 153-159.
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De Hart, Jane Sherron. Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
The definitive biography, the product of years of research and interviews with Ginsburg herself.
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Dean, Gordon. “Mr. Justice Jackson: His Contribution at Nuremberg.” American Bar Association Journal 41 (October 1955): 912-915.
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Dean, John W. The Rehnquist Choice: The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment That Redefined the Supreme Court. New York: Free Press, 2001.
Nixon's own White House counsel, working from the Nixon tapes, reconstructs the accidental, cynical, and finally fateful process that put Rehnquist on the Court in 1971 — 'Renchburg,' as Nixon kept calling him.
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“Death of an Apostle.” Time 54 (August 1, 1949): 12.
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“Death of Chief Justice Waite.” American Law Review 22 (March/April 1888): 301-303.
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“Death of Mr. Chief Justice Vinson.” United States Reports 346 (1953).
The Court's first word, from Black when it sat on October 5, 1953: 'With deep sorrow the Court records at this time the sudden and unexpected death on September 8, 1953, of our Chief Justice, Fred M. Vinson,' and 'They loved him for his kindness, sympathy, understanding and fairness.'
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“Death of Mr. Justice Miller.” American Law Review 24 (November/December 1890): 997-1003.
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Decker, Raymond G. “Justice Hugo L. Black: The Balancer of Absolutes.” California Law Review 59 (November 1971): 1335-1355.
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“Dedication of Memorial to Chief Justice Salmon Portland Chase.” American Bar Association Journal 9 (June 1923): 347-352.
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Defeis, Elizabeth F. “Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.” Seton Hall Law Review 16 (1986): 429-460.
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Degnan, Daniel A. “William Paterson: Small States’ Nationalist.” In Seriatim: The Supreme Court Before John Marshall. 1998.
The best concise, Court-centered treatment.
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Degnan, Daniel A. “Justice William Paterson – Founder.” Seton Hall Law Review 16 (1986): 313-338.
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DeHaas, Jacob. Louis D. Brandeis: A Biographical Sketch with Special Reference to His Contribution to Jewish and Zionist History. New York: Bloch, 1929.
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Del Guidice, Richard J. “Justice Brennan and Freedom of Expression.” Ph.D. diss., University of Massachusetts, 1975.
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Delaplaine, Edward S. The Life of Thomas Johnson. New York: F. H. Hitchcock, 1927.
The only full-length biography devoted to Johnson and therefore the natural starting point — detailed on the Maryland politics, Revolutionary service, friendship with Washington, governorship, constitutional work, Federal City commission, and brief Court tenure.
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Delaplaine, Edward S. The Life of Thomas Johnson: Member of the Continental Congress, First Governor of the State of Maryland, and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. New York: F. H. Hitchcock, 1927.
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Delaplaine, Edward S. “Chief Justice Roger B. Taney: His Career as a Lawyer.” American Law Review 52 (July/August 1918): 535-570.
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Delaplaine, Edward S. “Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney: His Career at the Frederick Bar.” Maryland Historical Magazine 13 (1918): 109-142.
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Delaplaine, Edward S. “Lincoln after Taney's Death.” Lincoln Herald 79 (Winter 1977): 151-157.
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Delaplaine, Edward S. “The Fame of Chief Justice Taney.” Case and Comment 37 (Winter 1931): 6-9.
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Delaplaine, Edward S. “The Life of Thomas Johnson.” Maryland Historical Magazine 20 (March/December 1925): 33-42; (March/June 1926): 39-54, 181-201.
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Delort, Mathias W. “Behind the Scenes of Norman v. Reed with Justice Stevens: How a Local Chicago Political Battle Resulted in an Unlikely (and Rare) Supreme Court Case on the Rights of New Political Parties.” Journal of Supreme Court History 50, no. 3 (2025): 233–259.
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Deniston, Elinore. John Marshall: Famous Makers of America. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1963.
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Dennie, Madiba K. The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back. New York: Random House, 2024.
Madiba Dennie of Balls and Strikes against originalism as the current Court practises it, with an inclusive constitutionalism rooted in the Reconstruction Amendments offered instead; Random House, June 2024, 304 pages, and advocacy by design. Not read.
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Dennis, Everette E. “Overcoming Occupational Heredity at the Supreme Court.” American Bar Association Journal 66 (January 1980): 41-45.
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Dennis, Everette E., Donald M. Gillmor, and David L. Grey, eds. Justice Hugo Black and the First Amendment. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1978.
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Dennison, George M. “Revolutionary Principle: Ideology and the Constitution in the Thought of James Wilson.” Review of Politics 39 (April 1977): 157-191.
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Dennisont, George M. “The Dorr War and Political Questions.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1979: 45–62.
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Denniston, Lyle. “Anthony Lewis: Pioneer in the Court’s Pressroom.” Journal of Supreme Court History 38, no. 3 (2013): 432–437.
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Denniston, Lyle. “Justices Brennan, Stevens Say High Court Favors Prosecution.” Criminal Justice Newsletter 17 (February 3, 1986): 2-3.
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Denniston, Lyle. “Rehnquist, Scalia Not Expected to Shift High Court's Balance.” Criminal Justice Newsletter 17 (July 1986): 1-3.
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Dennon, Lester E. The Wit and the Wisdom of Oliver W. Holmes, Father and Son. Boston: Beacon Press, 1953.
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Denslow, V. B. “Chief Justice Chase.” Putnam's Magazine 12 (July 1868): 111-112.
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Dent, Thomas. “David Davis of Illinois: A Sketch.” American Law Review 53 (July/August 1919): 535-560.
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Denvir, John. “Justice Brennan, Justice Rehnquist, and Free Speech.” Northwestern University Law Review 80 (November 1985): 285-320.
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Denvir, John. “Justice Rehnquist and Constitutional Interpretation.” Hastings Law Journal 34 (May 1983): 1011-1053.
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DePlato, Justin P., with Matthew M. Markulin. The United States Supreme Court and Politics: Judicial Retirements, the Docket, and the Nomination Process. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019.
A short quantitative study by Justin DePlato with Matthew Markulin of the three political mechanics of the Court, judicial retirements, the shaping of the docket and the nomination process; Lexington, 102 pages, dated 2020 by the Library and November 2019 by the carriers. Not read.
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Derby, Augustin. “Recollection of Mr. Justice Holmes.” New York University Law Quarterly Review 12 (March 1935): 345-353.
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Derr, Allen. “Advocate Memoir: Litigating the Landmark Case Reed v. Reed (1971).” Journal of Supreme Court History 50, no. 2 (2025): 154–171.
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Desmond, Charles S., et al. Mr. Justice Jackson: Four Lectures in His Honor. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969.
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Detsch, Ruthanne M. “Snapshot Memories of RBG.” Journal of Supreme Court History 46, no. 1 (2021): 10–12.
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deVergie, Adrienne, and Mary Kate Kell, comps. Location Guide to the Manuscripts of Supreme Court Justices. Austin: Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas School of Law, 1978.
Where every justice's papers were in 1978, justice by justice, in 146 leaves from the Tarlton Law Library at Texas, the print ancestor of the online finding aids; now on HeinOnline.
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Devins, Neal, and Lawrence Baum. The Company They Keep: How Partisan Divisions Came to the Supreme Court. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Neal Devins and Lawrence Baum argue that justices answer to the elite social networks around them rather than to public opinion or the other branches, and that ideology now tracks the appointing president's party because those networks have polarised; Oxford, February 2019, 272 pages. Not read.
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Dewey, Donald O. Marshall versus Jefferson: The Political Background of Marbury v. Madison. New York: Knopf, 1970.
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Dias, Elizabeth, and Lisa Lerer. The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America. New York: Flatiron Books, 2024.
Two New York Times reporters' deeply sourced history of the movement that ended Roe — with Alito as the justice who wrote the opinion and weathered the leak.
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Dichio, Michael A. The US Supreme Court and the Centralization of Federal Authority. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2018.
Michael Dichio builds a database of landmark decisions from the casebooks and treatises of 1822 to 2010 and finds that the Court enlarged federal authority whatever the issue and whatever its own composition; SUNY Press, 2018, 268 pages. Not read.
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Dickinson, Marquis Fayette, Jr. John Marshall: The Tribute of Massachusetts: Being the Addresses Delivered at Boston and Cambridge February 4, 1901, in Commemoration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of His Elevation to the Bench as Chief Justice of the United States. Boston: Little, Brown, 1901.
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Dickson, Del, ed. The Supreme Court in Conference (1940-1985): The Private Discussions behind Nearly 300 Supreme Court Decisions. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
The conference itself: a thousand pages from Oxford in 2001 reconstructing the private discussions behind nearly three hundred decisions from the justices' own notes, catalogued under the Court's records and correspondence and under sources for its history. The nearest thing on this shelf to a primary record of how the votes were taken. No copy found online. Not read.
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Didier, Eugene L. “Personal Recollections of Chief Justice Chase.” Green Bag 7 (July 1895): 313-317.
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Dierenfield, Bruce J. “‘The Most Hated Woman in America’: Madalyn Murray and the Crusade against School Prayer.” Journal of Supreme Court History 32, no. 1 (2007): 62–84.
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Dietze, Gottfried. “Jay's Federalist: Treatise for Free Government.” Maryland Law Review 17 (Summer 1957): 217-230.
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Dilliard, Irving, ed. Mr. Justice Brandeis, Great American: Press Opinion and Public Appraisal. St. Louis: Modern View Press, 1941.
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Dilliard, Irving. “Gabriel Duvall.” In Dictionary of American Biography, supplement 1, 272-274. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944.
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Dilliard, Irving. “Hugo Black and the Importance of Freedom.” American University Law Review 10 (January 1961): 7-26.
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Dilliard, Irving. “Mr. Justice Black and In Re Anastaplo.” Southwestern University Law Review 9 (1977): 953-976.
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Dilliard, Irving. “Saint Louis Recalls Brandeis.” St. Louis University Law Journal 11 (Fall 1966): 12-14.
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Dilliard, Irving. “Warren and the New Supreme Court.” Harper's Magazine 211 (December 1955): 59-64.
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Dillon, John F. “A Commemorative Address on Chief Justice Marshall.” American Law Review 35 (March/April 1901): 161-189.
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Dillon, John F., ed. John Marshall: Life, Character and Judicial Services as Portrayed in the Centenary and Memorial Addresses and Proceedings throughout the United States on Marshall Day, 1901, and in the Classic Orations of Binney, Story, Phelps, Waite and Rawle (3 vols.). Chicago: Callaghan & Company, 1903.
The Marshall Day record: three volumes from Callaghan of Chicago in 1903 gathering the addresses given across the country on 4 February 1901, the centenary year of Marshall's chief justiceship, with the older orations of Binney, Story (the 1835 eulogy), Phelps, Waite and Rawle.
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Dillon, Mark C. The First Chief Justice: John Jay and the Struggle of a New Nation. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2022.
A focused, thoughtful study of Jay's formative role in establishing the early Supreme Court and federal judiciary.
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“Dinner to Mr. Justice Harlan in Celebration of His Completion of Twenty-five Years of Judicial Service.” American Law Review (January/February 1903): 92-96.
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Dishman, Robert B. “Mr. Justice White and the Rule of Reason.” Review of Politics 13 (April 1951): 229-243.
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“Dissenter on the Bench and on World Policy, Too.” U.S. News and World Report 38 (February 11, 1955): 78.
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Dixon, Owen. “Marshall and the Australian Constitution.” Australian Law Journal 29 (December 1955): 420-427.
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Dixon, Owen. “Mr. Justice Frankfurter: A Tribute from Australia.” Yale Law Journal 67 (December 1957): 179-186.
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Doak, Henry M. “Howell Edmunds Jackson.” Green Bag 5 (May 1893): 209-215.
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Dobyns, Fletcher. “Justice Holmes and the Fourteenth Amendment.” Illinois Law Review 13 (June 1918): 71-96.
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Dodd, William E. Chief Justice Marshall and Virginia, 1813-1821. New York: Macmillan, 1907.
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Dodd, William E. “Chief Justice Marshall and Virginia, 1813-1821.” American Historical Review 12 (July 1907): 776-787.
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Dodson, Scott, ed. The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
The major posthumous scholarly volume — Totenberg, Herma Hill Kay, Linda Kerber, the Siegels, and others assessing the advocate and the justice, updated after her death with a foreword by Justice Breyer.
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Doherty, Brendan J. “Interpreting the Bill of Rights and the Nature of Federalism: Baron v. City of Baltimore.” Journal of Supreme Court History 32, no. 3 (2007): 210–228.
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Doherty, Brian. Gun Control on Trial: Inside the Supreme Court Battle Over the Second Amendment. Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 2008.
District of Columbia v. Heller followed from the plaintiffs' side, from the lawyers who brought the case through the briefing and the argument to the 2008 decision, by Brian Doherty, a senior editor at Reason; Cato Institute, Washington, October 2008, 181 pages, from a publisher that was part of the litigation's intellectual history. Not read.
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Dommici, Peter J. “Protector of the Minorities: Mr. Justice Hugo L. Black.” University of Missouri at Kansas City Law Review 32 (Summer 1964): 266-291.
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Domnarski, William. The Great Justices, 1941-54: Black, Douglas, Frankfurter, and Jackson in Chambers. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2006.
William Domnarski on the four Roosevelt appointees who dominated the Court from 1941 to 1954, Black, Douglas, Frankfurter and Jackson, and on how their personalities, ambitions and quarrels shaped what it decided, written from their correspondence, diaries and conference notes; Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2006, 224 pages. Not read.
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Domnarski, William. “Is There a Way out of the Counter-Majoritarian Difficulty? Book Review.” Journal of Supreme Court History 48, no. 2 (2023): 258–262.
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Donald, David, ed. Inside Lincoln's Cabinet: The Civil War Diaries of Salmon P. Chase. New York: Longmans, Green, 1954.
Chase's Civil War diaries, edited by the great Lincoln scholar David Herbert Donald — the Treasury secretary's candid, often self-serving record of the Cabinet's inner life, from war finance to the feuds with Seward and the maneuvering against Lincoln.
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Donnan, Elizabeth, and Leo Stock, eds. “Senator Beveridge, J. Franklin Jameson, and John Marshall.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 35 (December 1948): 463-492; (March 1949): 639-673.
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Dorfman, Joseph H., and Rexford G. Tugwell. “John Jay: Revolutionary Conservative.” In Early American Policy: Six Columbia Contributions, by Joseph H. Dorfman and Rexford G. Tugwell, 43-98. New York: Columbia University Press, 1960.
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Dorfman, Joseph. “John Marshall: Political Economist.” In Chief Justice John Marshall: A Reappraisal, edited by William M. Jones, 124-144. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1956.
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Dorin, Dennis D. “Justice Tom Clark and the Right of Defendants in State Courts.” Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia, 1974.
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Dorin, Dennis D. “Mr. Justice Clark and State Criminal Justice, 1949-1967.” Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia, 1974.
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Dorin, Dennis D. “Social Leadership, Humor, and Supreme Court Decision Making.” Judicature 66 (May 1983): 462-468.
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Dorin, Dennis D. “Tom C. Clark: The Justice as Administrator.” Judicature 61 (January 1978): 271-277.
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Dorman, Charles. “Justice Brennan: The Individual and Labor Law.” Chicago-Kent Law Review 58 (Fall 1982): 1003-1052.
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Doro, Marion E. “The Brandeis Brief.” Vanderbilt Law Review 11 (June 1958): 783-799.
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Dorsen, David M. The Unexpected Scalia: A Conservative Justice's Liberal Opinions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
A liberal friend's case-by-case study of the roughly 135 times Scalia's method produced liberal results — flag burning, confrontation rights, sentencing.
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Dorsen, Norman and Amelia Ames Newcomb. “John Marshall Harlan II, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court 19551971: Remembrances by his Law Clerks.” Journal of Supreme Court History 27, no. 2 (2002): 138–175.
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Dorsen, Norman. “John Marshall Harlan and the Warren Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 16 (1991): 50–62.
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Dorsen, Norman. “Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr.: A Biography A Review Essay.” Journal of Supreme Court History 19 (1994): 139–146.
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Dorsen, Norman. “Mr. Justice Black and Mr. Justice Harlan.” New York University Law Review 46 (October 1971): 649-652.
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Dorsen, Norman. “The Second Mr. Justice Harlan: A Constitutional Conservative.” New York University Law Review 44 (1969): 249.
The single most-cited Harlan article — his former clerk's portrait of the 'constitutional conservative,' the phrase that has framed every discussion of Harlan since.
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Douglas, Cathleen H. “William O. Douglas: The Man.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1981 (1981): 6-9.
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Douglas, Joshua A. The Court v. the Voters: The Troubling Story of How the Supreme Court Has Undermined Voting Rights. Boston: Beacon Press, 2024.
Nine voting-rights cases, Anderson v. Celebrezze to Rucho, one to a chapter, by Joshua Douglas; Beacon, May 2024. Not read.
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Douglas, William O. A Living Bill of Rights. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961.
The short one, ninety pages from Doubleday in 1961 with a bibliography, the Bill of Rights explained for the general reader by the Justice who read it most broadly.
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Douglas, William O. A Wilderness Bill of Rights. Boston: Little, Brown, 1965.
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Douglas, William O. America Challenged. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1960.
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Douglas, William O. An Almanac of Liberty. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1954.
A page for every day of the year, each on a moment in the history of liberty, 409 pages from Doubleday in 1954, catalogued under constitutional law and civil rights: the sitting Justice as popular educator.
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Douglas, William O. Being an American. New York: J. Day, 1948.
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Douglas, William O. Beyond the High Himalayas. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1952.
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Douglas, William O. Cases and Materials on the Law of Corporate Reorganization. St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Company, 1931.
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Douglas, William O. Democracy and Finance. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1940.
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Douglas, William O. Democracy's Manifesto. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1962.
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Douglas, William O. Douglas of the Supreme Court: A Selection of His Opinions. Edited by Vern Countryman. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1959.
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Douglas, William O. Exploring the Himalayas. New York: Random House, 1958.
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Douglas, William O. Farewell to Texas: A Vanishing Wilderness. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967.
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Douglas, William O. Freedom of the Mind. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1962.
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Douglas, William O. From Marshall to Mukherjea: Studies in American and Indian Constitutional Law. Calcutta: Eastern Law House, 1956.
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Douglas, William O. Go East, Young Man: The Early Years. New York: Random House, 1974.
Douglas's own account of the rise — the hardscrabble Yakima boyhood, the bout with polio, Columbia Law, Wall Street, Yale, and the New Deal SEC that carried him to the Court at forty.
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Douglas, William O. Holocaust or Hemispheric Co-op: Cross Currents in Latin America. New York: Random House, 1971.
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Douglas, William O. International Dissent: Six Steps toward World Peace. New York: Random House, 1971.
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Douglas, William O. Mr. Lincoln and the Negroes: The Long Road to Equality. New York: Atheneum, 1963.
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Douglas, William O. Muir of the Mountains. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961.
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Douglas, William O. My Wilderness: East to Katahdin. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961.
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Douglas, William O. My Wilderness: The Pacific West. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1960.
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Douglas, William O. North from Malaya: Adventure on Five Fronts. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1953.
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Douglas, William O. Of Men and Mountains. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950.
His best-loved book — a lyrical memoir of the Cascades that made Douglas a hero to the conservation movement and shaped the environmental jurisprudence he would later write from the bench.
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Douglas, William O. Points of Rebellion. New York: Random House, 1970.
The incendiary little book that nearly got him impeached — Douglas's defense of dissent and the youth revolt of 1969, published as Gerald Ford was building a House case to remove him.
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Douglas, William O. Russian Journey. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958.
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Douglas, William O. Strange Lands and Friendly People. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1951.
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Douglas, William O. The Anatomy of Liberty: The Rights of Man without Force. New York: Trident Press, 1963.
Liberty taken apart, 230 pages from Trident Press in 1963 with sixteen pages of notes, catalogued under civil rights, the separation of powers, the rule of law and international security: Douglas the world traveller and the domestic libertarian in one book.
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Douglas, William O. The Bible and the Schools. Boston: Little, Brown, 1966.
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Douglas, William O. The Court Years, 1939–1975: The Autobiography of William O. Douglas. New York: Random House, 1980.
The second volume — Douglas on his thirty-six years as a justice, settling scores with colleagues and recounting the great cases, the impeachment attempts, and the four marriages.
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Douglas, William O. The Douglas Opinions. Edited by Vern Countryman. New York: Random House, 1977.
The opinions, selected and arranged by Vern Countryman, the author of the Judicial Record: Random House, 1977, two years after the retirement, with a Berkley paperback in 1978.
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Douglas, William O. The Right of the People. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958.
The rights of the people against the state, 250 pages from Doubleday in 1958, catalogued in the year Douglas also published Freedom is Security, West of the Indus and Exploring the Himalaya: four books in a year from a sitting Justice.
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Douglas, William O. The Supreme Court and the Bicentennial: Two Lectures. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1978.
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Douglas, William O. The Three Hundred Year War: A Chronicle of Ecological Disaster. New York: Random House, 1972.
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Douglas, William O. Towards a Global Federalism. New York: New York University Press, 1968.
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Douglas, William O. We the Judges: Studies in American and Indian Constitutional Law from Marshall to Mukherjea. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1956.
Douglas comparing the two great federal constitutions and their courts, Marshall's to Mukherjea's, 490 pages from Doubleday in 1956 (a Calcutta printing, From Marshall to Mukherjea, the same year): the Justice who had walked the Himalayas writing the law of the subcontinent into his own Court's story.
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Douglas, William O. West of the Indies. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958.
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Douglas, William O. “A Crusade for the Bar: Due Process in a Time of World Conflict.” American Bar Association Journal 39 (October 1953): 871-875.
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Douglas, William O. “Chief Justice Stone.” Columbia Law Review 46 (September 1946): 693-695.
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Douglas, William O. “Democracy Charts Its Course.” University of Florida Law Review 1 (Summer 1948): 133-148.
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Douglas, William O. “Federal Courts and the Democratic System.” Alabama Law Review 21 (Spring 1969): 179-190.
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Douglas, William O. “Foreword.” University of California at Los Angeles Law Review 15 (September 1968): 1374-1376.
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Douglas, William O. “French Are Facing Danger again in Morocco.” Look 18 (October 19, 1954): 33-37.
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Douglas, William O. “Harlan Fiske Stone Centennial Lecture: The Meaning of Due Process.” Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems 10 (Fall 1973): 1-14.
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Douglas, William O. “In Forma Pauperis Practice in the United States.” New Hampshire Bar Journal 2 (October 1959): 5-10.
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Douglas, William O. “Indo-China: A House Divided.” Reader's Digest 62 (March 1953): 144-148.
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Douglas, William O. “Insulation from Liability through Subsidiary Corporations.” Yale Law Journal 39 (December 1929): 193-218.
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Douglas, William O. “Interposition and the Peters Case, 1778-1809.” Stanford Law Review 9 (December 1956): 3-12.
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Douglas, William O. “John Marshall, A Life in Law: An Essay Review.” Louisiana History 16 (Spring 1975): 193-200.
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Douglas, William O. “Landlord's Claims in Reorganizations.” Yale Law Journal 42 (May 1933): 1003-1050.
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Douglas, William O. “Managing the Docket of the Supreme Court of the United States.” Record of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York 25 (May 1970): 279-298.
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Douglas, William O. “Mr. Justice Black.” Yale Law Journal 65 (February 1956): 449-450.
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Douglas, William O. “Mr. Justice Cardozo.” Michigan Law Review 58 (February 1960): 549-556.
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Douglas, William O. “My Father's Evening Star.” In This I Believe, edited by Edward R. Murrow, 43-44. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955.
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Douglas, William O. “My Favorite Vacation Land.” American Magazine 154 (July 1952): 38-41, 94-99.
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Douglas, William O. “Nature's Constitutional Rights.” North American Review 258 (Spring 1973): 11-14.
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Douglas, William O. “On Misconception of the Judicial Function and the Responsibility of the Bar.” Columbia Law Review 59 (February 1959): 227-233.
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Douglas, William O. “Peace within Our Grasp.” Nation 168 (April 30, 1949): 497-498.
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Douglas, William O. “Procedural Safeguards in the Bill of Rights.” Journal of the American Judicature Society 31 (April 1948): 166-170.
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Douglas, William O. “Protecting the Investor.” Yale Review 23 (March 1934): 521-533.
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Douglas, William O. “Recent Trends in Constitutional Law.” Oregon Law Review 30 (June 1951): 279-288.
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Douglas, William O. “Remarks.” Rutgers Law Review 28 (Winter 1975): 616-624.
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Douglas, William O. “Revolution Is Our Business.” Nation 174 (May 31, 1952): 516-519.
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Douglas, William O. “Some Dicta on Discrimination.” Loyola University Los Angeles Law Review 3 (April 1970): 207-216.
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Douglas, William O. “Some Functional Aspects of Bankruptcy.” Yale Law Journal 41 (January 1932): 329-364.
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Douglas, William O. “Stare Decisis.” Columbia Law Review 49 (June 1949): 735-758.
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Douglas, William O. “The Bill of Rights Is Not Enough.” New York University Law Review 38 (April 1963): 207-242.
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Douglas, William O. “The Bill of Rights, Due Process, and Federalism in India.” Minnesota Law Review 40 (December 1955): 1-40.
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Douglas, William O. “The Black Silence of Fear.” New York Times Magazine (January 13, 1952): 7, 37-38.
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Douglas, William O. “The Dissent: A Safeguard of Democracy.” Journal of the American Judicature Society 32 (December 1948): 104-107.
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Douglas, William O. “The Dissenting Opinion of Mr. Justice Douglas in the Supreme Court Case of Adler v. Board of Education: Reprinted from April 1952.” Education Digest 51 (November 1985): 64-66.
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Douglas, William O. “The Dissenting Opinion.” Lawyers Guild Review 8 (November/December 1948): 467-469.
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Douglas, William O. “The Dissenting Opinions of William O. Douglas.” Lithopinion 8 (Winter 1973): 31-33.
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Douglas, William O. “The Grand Design of the Constitution.” Gonzaga Law Review 7 (Spring 1972): 239-260.
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Douglas, William O. “The Hastings Bill and Lessons Learned from the Bankruptcy Studies.” National Association of Referees in Bankruptcy 7 (October 1932): 25-28.
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Douglas, William O. “The Lasting Influence of Mr. Justice Brandeis.” Temple Law Quarterly 19 (April 1946): 361-370.
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Douglas, William O. “The Meaning of Due Process.” Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems 10 (Fall 1973): 1-14.
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Douglas, William O. “The Means and the End.” Washington University Law Quarterly 1959 (April 1959): 103-120.
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Douglas, William O. “The Press and First Amendment Rights.” Idaho Review 7 (Spring 1970): 1-15.
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Douglas, William O. “The Role of the Lawyer.” Oklahoma Law Review 12 (February 1959): 1-12.
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Douglas, William O. “The Supreme Court and Its Case Load.” Cornell Law Quarterly 45 (Spring 1960): 401-414.
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Douglas, William O. “Too Many Short Cuts.” New Republic 129 (November 23, 1953): 9-11.
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Douglas, William O. “Toward Greater Vitality.” Today's Health 51 (May 1973): 54-57, 72.
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Douglas, William O. “Underhill Moore.” Yale Law Journal 59 (January 1950): 187-188.
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Douglas, William O. “Vagrancy and Arrest on Suspicion.” Yale Law Journal 70 (November 1960): 1-14.
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Douglas, William O. “Vicarious Liability and Administration of Risk: II.” Yale Law Journal 38 (April 1929): 720-745.
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Douglas, William O. “Wage Earner Bankruptcies: State vs. Federal Control.” Yale Law Journal 42 (February 1933): 591-642.
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Douglas, William O., and Dorothy S. Thomas. “The Business Failures Project—II: An Analysis of Methods of Investigation.” Yale Law Journal 40 (May 1931): 1034-1054.
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Douglas, William O., and J. Howard Marshall. “A Factual Study of Bankruptcy Administration and Some Suggestions.” Columbia Law Review 32 (January 1932): 25-59.
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Douglas, William O., William Clark, and Dorothy S. Thomas. “The Business Failures Project: A Problem in Methodology.” Yale Law Journal 39 (May 1930): 1013-1024.
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Dowd, Morgan D. "Justice Story and the Politics of Appointment." American Journal of Legal History 9, no. 4 (1965): 265–285.
How the fourth choice became the appointment of the century: Cushing's death, the failed nominations of Levi Lincoln, Alexander Wolcott, and John Quincy Adams, Jefferson's warnings from Monticello, and Madison's gamble on a thirty-two-year-old Salem lawyer his own party distrusted.
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Dowd, Morgan D. “Justice Joseph Story: A Study of the Contributions of a Jeffersonian Judge to the Development of American Constitutional Law.” Ph.D. diss., University of Massachusetts, 1964.
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Dowd, Morgan D. “Justice Joseph Story: A Study of the Legal Philosophy of a Jeffersonian Judge.” Vanderbilt Law Review 18 (March 1965): 643-662.
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Dowd, Morgan D. “Justice Story and the Slavery Conflict.” Massachusetts Law Quarterly 52 (September 1967): 239-253.
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Dowd, Morgan D. “Justice Story, the Supreme Court, and the Obligation of Contract.” Case Western Reserve Law Review 19 (April 1968): 493-527.
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Dowling, Noel T. “The Methods of Mr. Justice Stone in Constitutional Cases.” Columbia Law Review 41 (November 1941): 1160-1189.
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Downey, Arthur T. “The Conflict between the Chief Justice and the Chief Executive: Ex parte Merryman.” Journal of Supreme Court History 31, no. 3 (2006): 262278.
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Downs, Harry. "Unlikely Abolitionist: William Cushing and the Struggle Against Slavery." Journal of Supreme Court History 29, no. 2 (2004): 123–135.
The strongest focused treatment of Cushing's role in the Quock Walker cases and the effective end of slavery as a legally protected institution in Massachusetts — and it confronts the tension between Cushing's constitutional ruling and his own social and family connections to slaveholding New England.
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Drinard, Elliott J. "John Blair, Jr., 1732–1800." Proceedings of the Virginia State Bar Association 39 (1926): 436–448.
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Driver, Justin. The Fall of Affirmative Action: Race, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Higher Education. New York: Columbia Global Reports, 2025.
Justin Driver of Yale on Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and what universities may still do after it; Columbia Global Reports, September 2025, 280 pages. Not read.
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Drushal, John G. “The Speeches of Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1908-1916).” Speech Monographs 19 (June 1952): 124.
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Dry, Murray. “The Origins and Foundations of the First Amendment and the Alien and Sedition Acts.” Journal of Supreme Court History 25, no. 2 (2000): 129–144.
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Ducat, Craig R., and Victor Z. Flango. “The Outsider on the Court.” Journal of Politics 47 (February 1985): 282-289.
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Dudziak, Mary L. “Oliver Wendell Holmes as a Eugenic Reformer: Rhetoric in the Writing of Constitutional Law.” Iowa Law Review 71 (March 1986): 833-867.
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Dudziak, Mary L. “The Supreme Court and Racial Equality During World War II.” Journal of Supreme Court History 21, no. 1 (1996): 35–48.
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Duetsch, Eberhard P. “The Case of the Missing Bodies.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1978: 61–67, 76.
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Duffy, Herbert S. William Howard Taft. New York: Minton, Balch, 1930.
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Duke, R. T., Jr. “John Marshall Harlan.” Virginia Law Register 17 (November 1911): 497-504.
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Duke, Steven. “Mr. Justice Douglas.” Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 11 (Spring 1976): 229-242.
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Dumbauld, Edward. “John Marshall and the Law of Nations.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 104 (October 1955): 38-56.
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Dumbauld, Edward. “John Marshall and Treaty Law.” American Journal of International Law 50 (January 1956): 69-80.
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Dumbauld, Edward. “The Case of the Mutinous Mariner.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1977: 52–58, 69.
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Dumbauld, Edward. “Valedictory Opinions of Mr. Justice Holmes.” ICC Practitioner's Journal 12 (December 1944): 224-234.
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Dumbauld, Edward. “Valedictory Opinions of Mr. Justice Holmes.” Michigan Law Review 42 (April 1944): 1037-1048.
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Duncan, George W. John Archibald Campbell. Montgomery: Alabama Historical Society, 1905.
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Duncan, George W. “The Diplomatic Career of William Rufus Day, 1897-1898.” Ph.D. diss., Case Western Reserve University, 1976.
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Dunham, Allison, and Philip B. Kurland, eds. Mr. Justice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956.
Nine justices in nine essays, University of Chicago Press, 1956: Biddle on Holmes, Crosskey on Marshall, Dunham on Stone, Fairman on Bradley, Freund on Brandeis, Paschal on Sutherland, Pusey on Hughes, Swisher on Taney, and a young John Paul Stevens on the justice he had clerked for, Wiley Rutledge.
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Dunham, Allison, and Philip B. Kurland, eds. Mr. Justice: Biographical Studies of Twelve Supreme Court Justices. Rev. ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965.
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Dunham, Allison. “Mr. Chief Justice Stone.” In Mr. Justice, by Allison Dunham, 229-249. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956.
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Dunham, Allison. “The Legacy of Brandeis, Holmes, and Stone.” Saturday Review 39 (December 15, 1956): 13-15.
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Dunlap, Boutwell. “Judge John Catron of the United States Supreme Court.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 28 (April 1920): 171-174.
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Dunne, Gerald T. Hugo Black and the Judicial Revolution. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1977.
An early, admiring study of Black's remaking of constitutional law — the drive to 'incorporate' the Bill of Rights against the states and read the First Amendment as an absolute.
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Dunne, Gerald T. Justice Joseph Story and the Rise of the Supreme Court. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970.
The livelier predecessor to Newmyer — a brisk, quotable narrative distilled from Dunne's string of 1960s Harvard Law Review articles.
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Dunne, Gerald T. Monetary Decisions of the Supreme Court. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1961.
A compact classic — barely a hundred pages — that gives the greenback saga its ending.
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Dunne, Gerald T. “American Blackstone.” Washington University Law Quarterly 1963 (June 1963): 321-337.
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Dunne, Gerald T. “Bushrod Washington and the Mount Vernon Slaves.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 5 (1980): 25–29.
The first dedicated treatment of the ugliest fact of Washington's life — his sale of fifty-four enslaved people from Mount Vernon in 1821, while serving as president of the American Colonization Society.
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Dunne, Gerald T. “Joseph Story: 1812 Overture.” Harvard Law Review 77 (December 1963): 240-278.
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Dunne, Gerald T. “Joseph Story: The Age of Jackson.” Missouri Law Review 34 (Summer 1969): 307-355.
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Dunne, Gerald T. “Joseph Story: The Germinal Years.” Harvard Law Review 75 (February 1962): 707-754.
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Dunne, Gerald T. “Joseph Story: The Great Term, 1837.” Harvard Law Review 79 (March 1966): 877-913.
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Dunne, Gerald T. “Joseph Story: The Lowering Storm.” American Journal of Legal History 13 (January 1969): 1-41.
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Dunne, Gerald T. “Joseph Story: The Middle Years.” Harvard Law Review 80 (June 1967): 1679-1709.
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Dunne, Gerald T. “Joseph Story: The Salem Years.” Essex Institute Historical Collections 101 (October 1965): 307-332.
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Dunne, Gerald T. “Justice Douglas and the Law of Banking.” Banking Law Journal 91 (April 1974): 307-311.
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Dunne, Gerald T. “Justice Hugo Black and Robert Jackson: The Great Feud.” St. Louis University Law Journal 19 (Summer 1975): 465-487.
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Dunne, Gerald T. “Justice Story and the Modern Corporation: A Closing Circle?” American Journal of Legal History 17 (July 1973): 262-270.
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Dunne, Gerald T. “Mr. Joseph Story and the American Law of Banking.” American Journal of Legal History 5 (July 1961): 205-229.
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Dunne, Gerald T. “President Grant and Chief Justice Chase: A Footnote to the Legal Tender Cases.” St. Louis University Law Journal 5 (Fall 1959): 539-553.
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Dunne, Gerald T. “The Early Court Reporters.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1976: 61–72.
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Dunne, Gerald T. “The Story-Livingston Correspondence (1812–1822).” American Journal of Legal History 10 (1966): 224–236.
The only dedicated scholarly article on Livingston as a justice — his private letters to Joseph Story, which are among the few windows into the Marshall Court's internal life from a justice who left almost no judicial paper trail.
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Dunnington, Miles W. Senator Thomas E. Walsh and the Vindication of Louis D. Brandeis. Chicago: Department of History, University of Chicago, 1940.
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Duram, James C. Justice William O. Douglas. Boston: Twayne, 1981.
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Durfee, Calvin. “Stephen Johnson Field.” In Williams Biographical Annals, by Calvin Durfee, 503-504. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1871.
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Durham, G. Homer. “John Jay and the Judicial Powers.” Brigham Young University Studies 16 (Spring 1976): 349-361.
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Durr, Clifford J. “Hugo Black, Southerner, the Southern Background.” American University Law Review 10 (January 1961): 27-42.
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Durr, Clifford J. “Hugo L. Black: A Personal Appraisal.” Georgia Law Review 6 (Fall 1971): 1-13.
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Dutton, C. B. “Mr. Justice Tom C. Clark.” Indiana Law Journal 26 (1951): 169.
The first year measured, by an Indianapolis lawyer in the number of the Indiana Law Journal that also carries Braden on Minton: twelve majority opinions, the 9 to 2 committee vote and the 'vociferous opposition,' the footnote that 'Justice Clark owes most gratitude for his appointment to Chief Justice Vinson,' Clark and Minton 'swung' to the conservative side, and the forecast Friedman and Israel call useful, that he 'may prove to be a good working judge, even if, thus far, he has cast no perceptible foreshadow of greatness or immortality.'
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DuVall, Randolph C., John E. Ely, Mark S. Gardner, William C. Goodwin, and H. P. Williams. “Balanced Justice: Mr. Justice Powell and the Constitution.” University of Richmond Law Review 11 (Winter 1977): 335-430.
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Dwight, Benjamin W. The History of the Descendants of Older John Strong. Albany, NY: J. Munsell, 1871.
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Dwight, Nathaniel. “James Wilson.” In The Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, by Nathaniel Dwight, 214-218. New York: Barnes, 1876.
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Dwight, Nathaniel. “Samuel Chase.” In The Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, by Nathaniel Dwight, 245-252. New York: Barnes, 1876.
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Dworkin, Ronald. The Supreme Court Phalanx: The Court's New Right-Wing Bloc. New York Review Books, 2008.
Ronald Dworkin's New York Review essays on the Court's first full term with Roberts and Alito sitting, collected as a book; New York Review Books, 2008, 71 pages, a pamphlet-length polemic. Not read.
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Dwyer, Paula. “Rehnquist and Scalia: A One-Two Punch for the Right.” Business Week (June 30, 1986): 36-37.
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Dyk, Timothy B. “The Graver Tank Litigation in the Supreme Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 30, no. 3 (2005): 271–283.
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Dynia, Philip A. “Senate Rejection of Supreme Court Nominees: Factors Affecting Rejection, 1795-1972.” Ph.D. diss., Georgetown University, 1973.
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