The Annotated Bibliography: J
132 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.
Jackson, Donald D. Judges. New York: Atheneum, 1974.
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Jackson, Ketanji Brown. Lovely One: A Memoir. New York: Random House, 2024.
Jackson's bestselling memoir, and the natural introduction to the newest justice — its title the English meaning of her West African name, Ketanji Onyika.
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Jackson, Percival E. Dissent in the Supreme Court: A Chronology. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1969.
A chronology of dissent on the Court from the beginning to 1969, xi and 583 pages from the University of Oklahoma Press. Borrow it at the Internet Archive; not read.
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Jackson, Robert H. Advocacy before the United States Supreme Court. San Francisco: Morrison Foundation Lecture, 1951.
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Jackson, Robert H. Dispassionate Justice: A Synthesis of the Judicial Opinions of Robert H. Jackson. Edited by Glendon Schubert. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1969.
Schubert's arrangement of the opinions, fifteen years after the death: the record says it 'includes official opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court written by Justice Jackson, as well as his concurring and dissenting opinions,' synthesised by subject rather than printed by term.
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Jackson, Robert H. Full Faith and Credit: The Lawyer's Clause of the Constitution. New York: Columbia University Press, 1945.
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Jackson, Robert H. That Man: An Insider’s Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Edited by John Q. Barrett. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Jackson's unpublished memoir of Franklin Roosevelt, written in the 1950s and edited a half-century later by the Jackson scholar John Q. Barrett — an intimate, shrewd portrait of the president Jackson served as Attorney General and admired as a friend.
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Jackson, Robert H. The Case Against the Nazi War Criminals. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.
The prosecutor's case, 258 pages from Knopf in 1946, published while the tribunal was still sitting and a year before The Nürnberg Case gathered the whole.
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Jackson, Robert H. The Nürnberg Case. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947.
Jackson's own account of the case he built against the Nazi leadership, including the opening statement that many regard as the greatest courtroom address of the century — 'the wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated.'
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Jackson, Robert H. The Struggle for Judicial Supremacy: A Study of a Crisis in American Power Politics. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941.
Jackson's own account of the court-packing crisis, written as Attorney General on the eve of his appointment — a New Dealer's brief against the old Court's war on Roosevelt's program, and a classic of political constitutionalism in its own right.
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Jackson, Robert H. The Supreme Court in the American System of Government. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1955.
Jackson's valedictory — the Godkin Lectures, published just after his sudden death — a lucid, modest reflection on the Court's real and proper power by the finest writer ever to sit on it.
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Jackson, Robert H. “Address, Our American Legal Philosophy.” Vital Speeches of the Day 8 (June 24, 1942): 356-358.
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Jackson, Robert H. “Advocacy before the Supreme Court: Suggestions for Effective Case Presentations.” American Bar Association Journal 37 (November 1951): 801-804.
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Jackson, Robert H. “American Courts.” New York State Bar Association Proceedings 67 (1944): 424-429.
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Jackson, Robert H. “Decisional Law and Stare Decisis.” American Bar Association Journal 30 (June 1944): 334-335.
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Jackson, Robert H. “Decline of Stare Decisis Is Due to Volume of Opinions.” Journal of American Judicature Society 28 (June 1944): 6-8.
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Jackson, Robert H. “Judicial Career of Chief Justice Hughes.” American Bar Association Journal 27 (July 1941): 408.
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Jackson, Robert H. “Lawyers Today: The Legal Profession in a World of Paradox.” American Bar Association Journal 33 (January 1947): 24-27, 85-89.
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Jackson, Robert H. “Maryland at the Supreme Court Bar.” In Report of the Forty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Maryland State Bar Association, 11-124. Baltimore: Maryland State Bar Association, 1939.
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Jackson, Robert H. “The Advocate: Guardian of Our Traditional Liberties.” American Bar Association Journal 36 (August 1950): 607-610.
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Jackson, Robert H. “The Law Is a Rule for Men to Live By.” Vital Speeches of the Day 9 (June 24, 1943): 664-667.
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Jackson, Robert H. “The Meaning of Statutes: What Congress Says or What the Court Says.” American Bar Association Journal 34 (July 1948): 535-538.
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Jackson, Robert H. “The Rise and Fall of Swift and Tyson.” American Bar Association Journal 24 (1938): 609-614, 644.
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Jackson, Robert H. “The Task of Maintaining Our Liberties: The Role of the Judiciary.” American Bar Association Journal 37 (November 1951): 801-804, 861-864.
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Jackson, Samuel. “Cardozo and the Supreme Court.” Indiana Law Journal 7 (June 1932): 513-535.
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Jacobi, Tonja, and Dylan Schweers. Justice, Interrupted. Virginia Law Review 103, no. 7 (2017): 1379–1487.
The study that established it: female justices speak less often and use fewer words than their male colleagues, and are nonetheless interrupted at a significantly higher rate — by the other justices, and by the advocates, against the Court’s own rules.
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Jacobi, Tonja, and Matthew Sag. The New Oral Argument. Notre Dame Law Review 94, no. 3 (2019): 1161–1253.
Fifty-five years of transcripts, and the finding that the justices stopped asking questions and started making arguments — more words, longer speeches, more interruptions, more comments aimed at the side they will vote against — with the break dated to 1995 and tied to the polarization of the politics outside the Court.
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Jacobs, Clyde E. Justice Frankfurter and Civil Liberties. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1961.
A political scientist's study of the civil-liberties record, published the year before Frankfurter left the bench as volume 12 of the University of California's publications in political science: viii, 265 pages with a portrait.
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Jacobs, Roger F. Memorials of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. Littleton, CO: Fred B. Rothman, 1981.
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Jacobs, Rose G. “Justice Brandeis and Hadassah.” New Palestine 32 (November 14, 1941): 17.
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Jacobsen, John Gregory. Jackson's Judges: Six Appointments Which Shaped a Nation. Covenant Books, 2024.
A recent group study of all six Jackson appointees, and the one work the Federal Judicial Center's bibliography lists for Baldwin.
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Jacobsohn, Gary J. “Felix Frankfurter and the Ambiguities of Judicial Statesmanship.” New York University Law Review 49 (April 1974): 1-44.
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Jacobstein, J. Myron and Joan S. Howland. “The Supreme Court in Current Literature.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1978: 113–120.
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Jacobstein, J. Myron, and Roy M. Mersky. The Rejected: Sketches of the 26 Men Nominated for the Supreme Court but Not Confirmed by the Senate. Milpitas, CA: Toucan Valley Publications, 1993.
Sketches of the twenty-six men nominated to the Supreme Court and not confirmed by the Senate, 188 illustrated pages from a small California press in 1993; HathiTrust holds it search-only and no free copy was found. Not read.
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Jaeger, Walter. “John Marshall: The Man, the Judge, and the Law of Nations.” American University Law Review 8 (January 1959): 28-33.
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Jaffe, Louis L. “An Impression of Mr. Justice Brandeis.” Harvard Law School Bulletin 8 (April 1957): 10-11.
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Jaffe, Louis L. “Judicial Universe of Mr. Justice Frankfurter.” Harvard Law Review 62 (January 1949): 357-412.
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Jaffe, Louis L. “Mr. Justice.” Harvard Law Review 68 (April 1955): 940-998.
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Jaffe, Louis L. “Professors and Judges as Advisors to Government: Reflections on the Roosevelt-Frankfurter Relationship.” Harvard Law Review 83 (December 1969): 366-376.
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Jaffe, Louis L. “The Contributions of Mr. Justice Brandeis to Administrative Law.” Iowa Law Review 18 (January 1932): 213-227.
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Jaffe, Louis L. “Was Brandeis an Activist? The Search for Intermediate Premises.” Harvard Law Review 80 (March 1967): 986-1004.
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Jager, Ronald B. “Stanley Matthews for the Supreme Court: 'Lord Roscoe's' Downfall.” Cincinnati Historical Society Bulletin 38 (Fall 1980): 191-208.
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Jager, Ronald B. “The Democracy's Demise: Grover Cleveland's Rejected Supreme Court Nominations.” Ph.D. diss., University of Texas, 1972.
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James, Dorothy. “Judicial Philosophy and Accession to the Court: The Cases of Justices Jackson and Douglas.” Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 1966.
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James, Rawn, Jr. Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2010.
The intertwined story of Charles Hamilton Houston and his student Thurgood Marshall — the mentor who built the legal theory and the protégé who carried it to victory over Plessy.
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James, Rawn, Jr. The Truman Court: Law and the Limits of Loyalty. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2021.
Rawn James, a Washington lawyer, on the Court Truman made with four appointments between 1945 and 1949, and on a bench whose loyalty-era decisions the publisher says appeared to support the administration that produced it; Missouri, June 2021, 320 pages. Not read.
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Janousek, Joseph O. “Roger Brooke Taney: Man of Conscience.” Journal of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia 12 (May 1945): 159-169.
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Jantzen, Franz. “From the Urban Legend Department: McReynolds, Brandeis, and the Myth of the 1924 Group Photograph.” Journal of Supreme Court History 40, no. 3 (2015): 325–333.
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Jarvis, Robert M. “And Behind the Plate ... Muddy Ruel of the U.S. Supreme Court Bar.” Journal of Supreme Court History 36, no. 1 (2011): 1–10.
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Jaschik, Scott. “Impact of Supreme Court Shake-up May Come Slowly, Legal Experts Say.” Chronicle of Higher Education 32 (June 25, 1986): 9-10.
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Jay, John. An Address to the People of the State of New-York, on the Subject of the Constitution Agreed upon at Philadelphia, the 17th of September, 1787. New York: S. and J. Loudon, 1788.
Jay's own pamphlet for ratification, written for the New York contest of 1788 in which he would sit as a delegate; the Internet Archive's copy is Paul Leicester Ford's Brooklyn reprint of 1888, and the pamphlet also stands at page 67 of Ford's Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States (1888), beside Melancton Smith's answer to it.
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Jay, John. Letters, Being the Whole of the Correspondence between the Hon. John Jay, Esq. and Mr. Lewis Littlepage: A Young Man Whom Mr. Jay, When in Spain, Patronized, and Took into His Family. New York: F. Childs, 1786.
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Jay, John. Unpublished Correspondence of William Livingston and John Jay. Newark: New Jersey Historical Society, 1934.
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Jay, William. The Life of John Jay: With Selections from His Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers (2 vols.). New York: J. & J. Harper, 1833.
The first Jay biography — written by his son, with generous selections from the correspondence, and the source every later life builds on.
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Jefferson, Renee Knake and Hanna Brenner Johnson. “Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court (2020).” Journal of Supreme Court History 46, no. 2 (2021): 258–262.
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Jefferson, Renee Knake, and Hannah Brenner Johnson. Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court. New York: New York University Press, 2020.
The nine women who reached a president's shortlist and were passed over, beginning with the Ohio judge Florence Allen in the 1930s, recovered by Renee Knake Jefferson and Hannah Brenner Johnson with a foreword by Melissa Murray; NYU Press, May 2020, 304 pages. Not read.
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Jeffries, John C., Jr. Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr.: A Biography. New York: Fordham University Press, 1994.
One of the great judicial biographies, and the indispensable book on Powell.
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Jenkins, John A. The Partisan: The Life of William Rehnquist. New York: PublicAffairs, 2012.
The fullest single-volume life, and the natural starting point — but a critical one, and readers should know it.
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Jenkins, John S. “John Jay.” In Lives of the Governors of the State of New York, edited by John S. Jenkins, 74-131. Auburn, NY: Derby and Miller, 1851.
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Jennings, Richard W. “Mr. Justice Douglas: His Influence on Corporate and Securities Regulation.” Yale Law Journal 73 (May 1964): 920-974.
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Jensen, Merrill, ed. The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, Vol. III: Connecticut (the “Landholder” essays). Madison, WI: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 1978.
Ellsworth's thirteen pseudonymous "Landholder" essays, published in the Connecticut Courant and American Mercury in 1787–88, were among the most effective ratification advocacy in New England — and the best sustained record of his constitutional thinking in his own voice.
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Jesse, Richard H. “Chief Justice White.” American Law Review 45 (May/June 1911): 321-326.
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Jezierski, John V. “Parliament or People: James Wilson and Blackstone on the Nature and Location of Sovereignty.” Journal of the History of Ideas 32 (January/March 1971): 95-106.
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John Marshall Harlan Papers — Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1810–1971.
The first Harlan's papers at the Library: 20,400 items in 49 containers, 21.2 linear feet and 34 reels of microfilm, bulk 1861 to 1911.
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John Marshall Harlan Papers — Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Library, 1884–1972.
The papers themselves, at Princeton: 685 boxes spanning 1884 to 1972, mostly 1936 to 1971, which the finding aid describes as 'legal materials, correspondence, writings, and personal papers that document his career as an attorney and a judge, especially the period when he was a Supreme Court Justice,' the bulk being 'opinions and other legal documents from all of the cases heard before the Supreme Court while Harlan was a member,' with correspondence files across the whole career.
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“John Marshall Harlan.” New York Law Forum 1 (1955): 1.
The lead item of the first number the New York Law School's journal ever published, March 1955, while the Senate was still deciding: an unsigned sketch of the nominee from the Harlan lineage through the years at Root, Clark, Buckner and Ballantine, ending on Eisenhower's praise of him.
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“John Marshall.” Albany Law Journal 13 (June 24, 1876): 442-445.
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“John Marshall: Judge and Jurist.” Green Bag 13 (May 1901): 213-267.
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“John Marshall: Soldier, Lawyer, Statesman, and Man.” Green Bag 13 (April 1901): 157-195.
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John McLean Papers — Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1816-1866.
Twenty-seven containers and eighteen reels of microfilm: 4,000 items, 10.6 linear feet, 1816 to 1866 with the bulk from 1829 to 1860, which is to say the postmaster generalship and the thirty-two years on the Court together.
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Johnson, Bradley T. Reports on Cases Decided by Chief Justice Chase in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Fourth Circuit. New York: Da Capo Press, 1972.
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Johnson, Calvin H. “The Four Good Dissenters in Pollock.” Journal of Supreme Court History 32, no. 2 (2007): 162–177.
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Johnson, Charles A. “Personnel Change and Policy Change on the U.S. Supreme Court.” Social Science Quarterly 62 (December 1981): 751-757.
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Johnson, Frances B. “The Justices of the Supreme Court.” American Illustrated Magazine 61 (April 1906): 634-642.
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Johnson, George C. “Special Privilege for an Autonomous Press: Justice Stewart's Structural Approach.” Ph.D. diss., Southern Illinois University, 1984.
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Johnson, Herbert A. The Chief Justiceship of John Marshall, 1801–1835. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1997.
The accessible one-volume institutional history of the Marshall Court, by a coeditor of the Marshall Papers — how the Court actually worked, case by case and term by term.
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Johnson, Herbert A. “Chief Justice John Marshall (1801-1835).” Journal of Supreme Court History 23, no. 1 (1998): 3–20.
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Johnson, Herbert A. “Civil Procedure in John Jay's New York.” American Journal of Legal History 11 (January 1967): 69-80.
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Johnson, Herbert A. “John Jay: Colonial Lawyer.” Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 1965.
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Johnson, Herbert A. “John Jay: Lawyer in a Time of Transition, 1764-1775.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 124 (May 1976): 1260-1292.
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Johnson, Herbert A. “The Tribulations of Conway Robinson, Jr.: John Marshall's 'Washington Lotts.'” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 79 (October 1971): 427-435.
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Johnson, Herbert A., Charles T. Cullen, and Charles F. Hobson, eds. The Papers of John Marshall. 12 vols. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1974–2006.
The scholarly foundation: correspondence, legal papers, and judicial materials, splendidly annotated — with Hobson's introductions amounting to a biography in themselves.
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Johnson, Herbert Alan. John Marshall in the Supreme Court. Clark, NJ: Talbot Publishing, 2019.
Herbert Johnson's late collection of essays on Marshall's leadership from 1801 to 1835, three of them previously unpublished: a historiographical survey, a statistical analysis of the Court's opinions under Marshall, and studies of William Cushing, William Johnson and Bushrod Washington.
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Johnson, J. Edward. “Stephen J. Field.” State Bar of California Journal 23 (March/April 1948): 82-90.
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Johnson, John W. “‘Dear Mr. Justice’: Public Correspondence With Members of the Supreme Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 22, no. 2 (1997): 101–112.
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Johnson, Kevin A., and Craig R. Smith. Fear and the First Amendment: Controversial Cases of the Roberts Court. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2024.
Ten Roberts Court speech cases, Morse v. Frederick to Kennedy v. Bremerton, read for the fear each opinion answers, by two communication scholars at Cal State Long Beach; Alabama, June 2024, 256 pages. Not read.
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Johnson, Ludwell H., III. “No Faith in Parchment.” Journal of Supreme Court History 21 (Special Edition 1996): 9–14.
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Johnson, Monroe. “Roger Brooke Taney: A Reappraisal.” United States Law Review 66 (September 1932): 487-496.
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Johnson, Monroe. “Taney and Lincoln.” American Bar Association Journal 16 (August 1930): 499-502.
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Johnson, Nicholas. “Senator Black and the American Merchant Marine.” UCLA Law Review 14 (January 1967): 399-427.
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Johnson, Robert David. “Lyndon B. Johnson and the Fortas Nomination.” Journal of Supreme Court History 41, no. 1 (2016): 103–122.
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Johnson, Timothy R. Oral Arguments and Decision Making on the United States Supreme Court. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004.
The book-length statement of the information-gathering account: justices use argument to learn the legal and policy options in a case, the preferences of the other institutions that will have to live with the result, and the institutional rules that constrain what they can do about it.
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Johnson, William. Sketches of the Life and Correspondence of Nathanael Greene (2 vols.). Charleston, SC: A. E. Miller, 1822.
The only sitting justice ever to publish a major two-volume biography — his life of the Revolutionary general, researched and written between circuits.
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Johnston, Henry P., ed. The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay (4 vols.). New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1890–93.
For the reader who wants Jay in his own words tonight.
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Jolly, James A. “The Social Philosophy of Frank Murphy.” University of Detroit Law Journal 42 (June 1965): 585-604.
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Jones, Calvin P. “Kentucky's Irascible Conservative: Supreme Court Justice James Clark McReynolds.” Filson Club History Quarterly 57 (January 1983): 20-30.
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Jones, Francis R. “Horace Gray, An Encomium.” Green Bag 14 (September 1902): 403-407.
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Jones, Francis R. “John Jay.” Green Bag 13 (January 1901): 1-4.
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Jones, Francis R. “John Marshall.” Green Bag 13 (February 1901): 53-64.
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Jones, Francis R. “Morrison Remick Waite.” Green Bag 14 (June 1902): 257-262.
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Jones, Francis R. “Oliver Ellsworth.” Green Bag 13 (November 1901): 503-508.
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Jones, Francis R. “Roger Brooke Taney.” Green Bag 14 (January 1902): 1-7.
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Jones, Francis R. “Salmon Portland Chase.” Green Bag 14 (April 1902): 155-165.
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Jones, Francis R. “William Cushing.” Green Bag 13, no. 9 (1901): 415.
A three-page sketch in the Green Bag of September 1901, nineteen years before Rugg's.
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Jones, Howard. Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
The standard account of the Mende captives' revolt and the case it became: the Hartford circuit proceedings, John Quincy Adams's argument, and the 1841 opinion holding the captives free.
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Jones, Hugh E. “The Defeat of the Nomination of Abe Fortas as Chief Justice of the United States: A Case Study in Judicial Politics.” Ph.D. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1976.
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Jones, Jeffrey J. “Justice Steven's Proposal to Establish a Sub-Supreme Court.” Harvard Journal on Legislation 20 (Winter 1983): 201-218.
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Jones, John Paul. “The Business of the Supreme Court Revisited.” Journal of Supreme Court History 20 (1995): 131–136.
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Jones, Leonard A. “Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Jurist.” American Law Review 36 (September/October 1902): 710-722.
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Jones, Michael E. "Five New Hampshire U.S. Supreme Court Justices: Woodbury, Clifford, Chase, Stone and Souter." New Hampshire Bar Journal 33, no. 4 (1992): 6–12.
The home-state genre — New Hampshire's five justices surveyed together, from Woodbury to the newly seated David Souter.
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Jones, Rachel E. “Rosenberger’s Unexplored History.” Journal of Supreme Court History 46, no. 1 (2021): 107–130.
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Jones, William C. “Justice Field's Opinions on Constitutional Law.” California Law Review 5 (January 1917): 108-128.
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Jones, William M., ed. Chief Justice John Marshall: A Reappraisal. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1956.
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Jones, Zach. “FDR’s Court-Packing and the Struggle for Civil Rights.” Journal of Supreme Court History 48, no. 2 (2023): 215–238.
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Jordan, Christine. “The Last of the Jacksonians.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1980: 78–88.
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“Joseph McKenna.” Case and Comment 4 (March 1898): 109.
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Jost, Kenneth. The New York Times on the Supreme Court, 1857-2008. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2008.
News articles, editorials and letters from the New York Times on the Court from 1857 to 2008, arranged by theme under freedom of ideas, political participation, equal protection, and crime and punishment, with case details and Kenneth Jost's commentary; CQ Press, October 2008, 480 pages, in the TimesReference series. Not read.
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Jost, Kenneth. The Supreme Court A to Z. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2012.
More than three hundred and fifty cross-referenced entries on the Court, with appendices listing every nomination from 1789 to 2011, a seat chart, the text of the Constitution and a bibliography, by Kenneth Jost, CQ Press's Supreme Court editor; CQ Press, Washington, March 2012, 668 pages, a fifth edition adding Kagan, Sotomayor and an entry on the media. Not read.
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Joyce, Craig. “A Good Judge.” Journal of Supreme Court History 31, no. 2 (2006): 100–106.
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Joyce, Craig. “Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story: Statesman of the Old Republic.” Michigan Law Review 84 (February/April 1986): 846-860.
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Joyce, Craig. “Wheaton v. Peters: The Untold Story of the Early Reporters.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1985: 35–92.
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Joyce, Walter E. “Edward Douglass White: The Louisiana Years, Early Life, and on the Bench.” Tulane Law Review 41 (June 1967): 752-768.
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Judson, Clara. Mr. Justice Holmes. Chicago: Follett, 1956.
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Judson, L. Carroll. “James Wilson.” In A Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, by L. Carroll Judson, 394-399. Philadelphia: Cowperthwait and Company, 1839.
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Judson, L. Carroll. “Samuel Chase.” In A Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence and of Washington and Patrick Henry, by L. Carroll Judson, 236-248. Philadelphia: J. Dobson and Thomas Cowperthwait, 1839.
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Judson, L. Carroll. “Samuel Chase.” In Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution, by L. Carroll Judson, 68-77. Philadelphia: Mass and Brother, 1853.
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“Justice Brennan Calls National Court of Appeals Proposal Unnecessary and Ill-Advised.” American Bar Association Journal 59 (August 1973): 835-840.
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“Justice Field's Resignation Accepted.” Albany Law Journal 56 (October 23, 1897): 295-298.
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“Justice Harry A. Blackmun, 1908-1999.” Supreme Court Historical Society Quarterly 20, no. 1 (1999).
The Society's memorial number: Justice Breyer's remarks at the memorial service at Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church, a career sketch from Harvard through the Mayo Clinic and the Eighth Circuit, and the clerks' and colleagues' recollections.
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“Justice Holmes at Ninety.” American Bar Association Journal 17 (April 1931): 251-253.
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“Justice John Blair and the Letter of the Law.” Colonial Williamsburg Journal. 2006.
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"Justice Wm. Burnham Woods." The Washington Law Reporter 15, no. 23 (1887): 357–59.
It is an unsigned obituary in the issue of 8 June 1887, three and a half weeks after Woods died, reprinted from the Ohio Law Journal and credited at the foot.
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