The Annotated Bibliography: W
280 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.
Wagman, Robert J. The Supreme Court: A Citizen’s Guide. New York: Pharos Books, 1993.
Written for the general reader, a guide pairing a narrative history of the Court as an institution with biographical treatment of the justices.
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Wagner, Frank D. “The Role of the Supreme Court Reporter in History.” Journal of Supreme Court History 26, no. 1 (2001): 9–23.
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Wagner, Richard H. “A Falling Out: The Relationship Between Oliver Wendell Holmes and Theodore Roosevelt.” Journal of Supreme Court History 27, no. 2 (2002): 114–137.
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Waite, Catharine V. “John Marshall.” Chicago Law Times 1 (April 1887): 109-121.
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Waite, Charles B. “John Jay.” Chicago Law Times 1 (July 1887): 215-223.
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Waite, Charles B. “John Rutledge.” Chicago Law Times 1 (October 1887): 305-311.
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Waite, Charles B. “Joseph Story.” Chicago Law Times 3 (January 1889): 1-13.
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Waite, Charles B. “Morrison R. Waite.” Chicago Law Times 2 (July 1888): 205-212.
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Waite, John B. “Mr. Brandeis.” Nation 102 (February 24, 1916): 220-221.
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Waite, Morrison R. The Orations of Chief Justice Waite and of William Henry Rawle on the Occasion of the Unveiling of the Bronze Statue of Chief Justice Marshall at Washington, May 10, 1884. Chicago: T. H. Flood, 1900.
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Waite, Morrison R. “Remarks of Chief Justice Waite on 'The Supreme Court of the United States.'” Albany Law Journal 36 (October 15, 1887): 315-318.
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Waite, Morrison R. “The Supreme Court of the United States.” Albany Law Journal 36 (October 15, 1887): 318.
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Waldman, Michael. The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2023.
Michael Waldman of the Brennan Center on the 2021 term, Dobbs, Bruen and West Virginia v. EPA together, and on what a Court at odds with the public might be made to do; Simon & Schuster, June 2023, 400 pages. Not read.
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Waldrep, Christopher. “Joseph P. Bradley’s Journey: The Meaning of Privileges and Immunities.” Journal of Supreme Court History 34, no. 2 (2009): 149–163.
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Walker, Albert H. The "Unreasonable" Obiter Dicta of Chief Justice White in the Standard Oil Case: A Critical Review. New York: n.p., 1911.
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Walker, Alexander J. “The Growth and Expression of the Constitutional Philosophy of Mr. Justice Holmes.” Ph.D. diss., University of Iowa, 1941.
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Walker, Thomas G., and William E. Hulbary. “The Supreme Court Selection Process: Presidential Motivations and Judicial Performances.” Western Political Quarterly 33 (June 1980): 185-196.
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Wallace, Harry L. “Mr. Justice Minton: Hoosier Justice on the Supreme Court.” Indiana Law Journal 34 (1959): 145.
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Wallenstein, Peter. “Race, Marriage, and the Supreme Court from Pace v. Alabama (1883) to Loving v. Virginia (1967).” Journal of Supreme Court History 23, no. 2 (1998): 65–87.
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Wallenstein, Peter. “To Sit or Not to Sit: The Supreme Court of the United States and the Civil Rights Movement in the Upper South.” Journal of Supreme Court History 29, no. 2 (2004): 145–162.
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Wallfisch, Mark C. “Justice Douglas: Advocate of Free Expression in Schools.” High School Journal 63 (April 1980): 303-307.
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Wallfisch, Mark C. “The Conflict between Freedom and Control in the Education Opinions of Justice William O. Douglas.” Ph.D. diss., Duke University, 1978.
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Wallfisch, Mark C. “William O. Douglas and Religious Liberty.” Journal of Presbyterian History 58 (Fall 1980): 193-208.
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Wallis, Severn T. Address, with the Reply of His Excellency, Governor Whyte, Delivered in the Senate Chamber, at Annapolis at the Unveiling of the Statue of Chief Justice Taney, December 10, 1872. Baltimore: John Murphy and Company, 1872.
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Wallis, W. Allen. “Poisson Distribution and the Supreme Court.” American Statistical Association Journal 31 (June 1936): 376-380.
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Walsh, James A. “The Political Ideas of Felix Frankfurter, 1911-1939.” Ph.D. diss., American University, 1976.
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Walsh, Lawrence E. “Selection of Supreme Court Justices.” American Bar Association Journal 56 (June 1970): 555-560.
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Waltman, Jerold. Church and State in the Roberts Court: Christian Conservatism and Social Change in Ten Cases, 2005-2018. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2019.
The late Jerold Waltman of Baylor, who edited the Journal of Church and State, on ten Roberts Court religion cases read against four changes in the religious landscape: growing diversity, rising secularism, the political weight of LGBTQ groups, and the conservative Christian response; McFarland, 2019, 186 pages. Not read.
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Waltman, Jerold. “Supreme Court Activism in Economic Policy in the Waning Days of the New Deal: Interpreting the Fair Labor Standards Act, 1941-1946.” Journal of Supreme Court History 31, no. 1 (2006): 58–80.
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Walz, Terence. “If Walls Could Talk: The Supreme Court and DACOR Bacon House Two Centuries of Connections.” Journal of Supreme Court History 47, no. 1 (2022): 20–26.
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Walz, Terence. “‘Judge’ Eugene Brooks: Supreme Court Messenger, Proponent of Black Awareness, 1881-1926.” Journal of Supreme Court History 49, no. 3 (2024): 195–212.
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Walz, William E. “Chief Justice Fuller, The Individualist on the Bench.” Maine Law Review 10 (January 1917): 77-84.
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Wambaugh, Eugene. “Salmon Portland Chase.” In Great American Lawyers, vol. 5, edited by William D. Lewis, 327-371. Philadelphia: J. C. Winston, 1908.
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Ward, Artemus, and David L. Weiden. Sorcerers' Apprentices: 100 Years of Law Clerks at the United States Supreme Court. New York: New York University Press, 2006.
Artemus Ward and David Weiden asking whether the clerks are research assistants or de facto decision-makers, from archival sources and interviews with a hundred and fifty former clerks, and ending in proposals for reform; New York University Press, 2006, 337 pages. Not read.
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Ward, Artemus, Christopher Brough, and Robert Arnold. Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Supreme Court. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
More than seven hundred cross-referenced entries on the justices, the cases, the issues and the Court's procedures, with a chronology and a bibliography, by Artemus Ward of Northern Illinois with Christopher Brough and Robert Arnold; Rowman & Littlefield, August 2015, 627 pages. Not read.
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Ward, Artemus. “The Tenth Justice: The Retirement of William O. Douglas.” Journal of Supreme Court History 25, no. 3 (2000): 296–312.
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Ward, Artemus. “The ‘Good Old #3 Club’ Gets a New Member.” Journal of Supreme Court History 33, no. 1 (2008): 110–119.
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Ward, Catherine. “Northern Schools and Lemon’s Forgotten Segregation Claim.” Journal of Supreme Court History 47, no. 2 (2022): 179–196.
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Warden, Robert B. An Account of the Private Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase. Cincinnati: Wilstach, Baldwin, 1874.
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Ware, William. “Joseph Story.” In American Unitarian Biography, vol. 2, by William Ware, 175-186. Boston: J. Munroe, 1851.
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Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964.
The standard biographical register of the Union army: all 583 men who reached the rank of general, with photographs and compact factual entries.
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Warner, Hoyt Landon. The Life of Mr. Justice Clarke: A Testament to the Power of Liberal Dissent in America. Cleveland: Western Reserve University Press, 1959.
The one full biography, and a sympathetic one.
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Warner, Joseph B. “Benjamin Robbins Curtis.” In Great American Lawyers, vol. 5, edited by William D. Lewis, 421-458. Philadelphia: J. C. Winston, 1908.
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Warner, Robert M. “Detroit's First Supreme Court Justice.” Detroit Historical Society Bulletin 13 (May 1957): 8-13.
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Warren, Aldice G. “A Comparison of the Tendencies in Constitutional Construction Shown by the Supreme Court under Chief Justices Marshall and Taney Respectively.” Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1913.
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Warren, Charles. The Story-Marshall Correspondence. New York: New York University School of Law, 1942.
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Warren, Charles. The Supreme Court in United States History. Boston: Little, Brown, 1922.
The three-volume history that won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize, carrying the Court from 1789 to 1918 and long foundational for American legal historians.
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Warren, Earl, and others. “Mr. Justice Brennan.” Harvard Law Review 80 (1966): 1.
The tributes that opened the November 1966 number on his tenth anniversary, at pages 1 to 22: the Chief Justice's 'Mr.
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Warren, Earl, Jr. “My Father the Chief Justice.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1982 (1982): 6-9.
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Warren, Earl. A Republic, If You Can Keep It. New York: Quadrangle Books, 1972.
The retired Chief Justice's own book, 203 pages from Quadrangle in 1972, three years after he stepped down and two before his death, catalogued under civil rights and constitutional history: Warren on the republic and what keeps it.
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Warren, Earl. Hughes and the Court. Hamilton, NY: Colgate University, 1962.
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Warren, Earl. “Roger Brooke Taney: Fifth Chief Justice.” American Bar Association Journal 41 (1955).
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Warren, Earl. The Memoirs of Earl Warren. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1977.
Warren's own account, published after his death — reticent and self-justifying in the way of the genre, but candid on his lasting regret over the wartime internment of Japanese Americans, and the closest thing to the man's own summing-up.
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Warren, Earl. “Address: At the Commencement Exercise of the University of San Diego School of Law.” San Diego Law Review 11 (February 1974): 291-295.
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Warren, Earl. “All Men Are Created Equal.” Record of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York 25 (June 1970): 351-364.
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Warren, Earl. “Chief Justice John Marshall: A Heritage of Freedom and Stability.” American Bar Association Journal 41 (November 1955): 1008-1010.
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Warren, Earl. “Chief Justice Marshall: The Expounder of the Constitution.” American Bar Association Journal 41 (August 1955): 687.
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Warren, Earl. “Chief Justice William Howard Taft.” Yale Law Journal 67 (January 1958): 353-362.
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Warren, Earl. “Introduction: A Tribute to Justice Douglas.” Washington Law Review 39 (Spring 1964): 1-3.
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Warren, Earl. “Judicial Tributes: Judge Clark.” Connecticut Bar Journal 38 (March 1964): 1-3.
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Warren, Earl. “Knight of Non-Partisanship.” In Twenty-seven Masters of Politics, edited by Raymond Moley, 87-96. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1949.
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Warren, Earl. “Let's Not Weaken the Supreme Court.” American Bar Association Journal 60 (June 1974): 677-680.
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Warren, Earl. “Mr. Justice Harlan, as Seen by a Colleague.” Harvard Law Review 85 (December 1971): 369-371.
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Warren, Earl. “Response to Recent Proposals to Dilute the Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.” Loyola Law Review 20 (1974): 221-230.
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Warren, Earl. “The Bill of Rights and the Military.” New York University Law Review 37 (April 1962): 181-203.
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Warren, Earl. “The Blessings of Liberty.” Washington University Law Quarterly 1955 (April 1955): 105-111.
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Warren, Earl. “The Notre Dame Law School Civil Rights Lectures.” Notre Dame Lawyer 48 (October 1972): 14-48.
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Warren, Earl. “The Supreme Court Years.” Texas Law Review 40 (June 1962): 744-745.
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Warren, Samuel D., and Louis D. Brandeis. “The Right to Privacy.” Harvard Law Review 4 (December 15, 1890): 193-220.
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Wasby, Stephen L. “Retired Supreme Court Justices in the Courts of Appeals.” Journal of Supreme Court History 39, no. 1 (2014): 146–165.
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Washington, Bushrod. “The Late Mr. Justice Bushrod Washington.” Green Bag 9 (August 1897): 329-335.
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Washington, Harold H. “Essays in Repression: First Term Opinion of Mr. Justice Rehnquist.” North Carolina Central Law Journal 4 (Fall 1972): 53-67.
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Washington, Lawrence. Address of Lawrence Washington in Presenting on May 3, 1910 at Montrose, Virginia, the Portrait of Judge Bushrod Washington. Columbus, OH: F. B. Toothaker, 1912.
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Waterson, Robert C. A Discourse on the Life and Character of Hon. Joseph Story... Boston: W. Crosby and H. P. Nichols, 1845.
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Waterson, Robert C. “The Character of Joseph Story, LL.D.: A Discourse.” Monthly Religious Magazine 2 (November 1845): 361-370.
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Watkins, John J. “Newsgathering and the First Amendment: Supreme Court Has Dealt Directly with Question of a Right of Newsgathering.” Journalism Quarterly 53 (Autumn 1976): 406-416.
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Watkins, Michael C. “United States Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell: A Study of His Philosophy and Application of the Law in Education Cases.” Ph.D. diss., University of Missouri, Columbia, 1984.
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Watson, Denton L. “Civil Rights Law: Concept to Reality.” Crisis 86 (June/July 1979): 233-239.
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Watson, George, and John Stookey. “Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings: A View from the Senate.” Judicature 71 (December/January 1988): 186-196.
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Watson, Richard L., Jr. “Defeat of Judge Parker: A Study in Pressure Groups and Politics.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 50 (September 1963): 213-234.
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Watson, Warren. “David Josiah Brewer.” In Distinguished American Lawyer, edited by Henry W. Scott, 75-88. New York: C. L. Webster, 1891.
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Watt, Richard F., and Richard M. Orlikoff. “The Coming Vindication of Mr. Justice Harlan.” Illinois Law Review 44 (March/April 1949): 13-40.
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Watterson, George. “Levi Woodbury.” In Gallery of American Portraits, 3d ed., by George Watterson, 149-153. Washington, DC: F. Taylor, 1836.
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Watts, Tim J. “A Bibliography of Arthur J. Goldberg.” Law Library Journal 77 (Spring 1984): 307-388.
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Waxman, Matthew C. “Constitutional War Powers in World War I: Charles Evan Hughes and the Power to Wage War Successfully.” Journal of Supreme Court History 44, no. 3 (2019): 267–277.
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Waxman, Seth P. “’Presenting the Case of the United States As It Should Be”: The Solicitor General in Historical Context.” Journal of Supreme Court History 23, no. 2 (1998): 3–25.
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Way, H. Frank, Jr. “The Study of Judicial Attitudes: The Case of Mr. Justice Douglas.” Western Political Quarterly 24 (March 1971): 12-27.
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Weaver, John D. Warren: The Man, the Court, the Era. Boston: Little, Brown, 1967.
One of the 'Two inadequate biographies' of 1967 that Friedman and Israel's chapter dismisses in five words: a journalist's life of the sitting Chief Justice, 428 pages with references and index, written while the Court he led was still deciding.
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Weaver, Warren, Jr. “Mr. Justice Rehnquist, Dissenting.” New York Times Magazine 124 (October 13, 1974): 36, 94-99.
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Webb, Derek A. “What Says the Reeds at Runnymeade? Magna Carta in Supreme Court History.” Journal of Supreme Court History 43, no. 3 (2018): 210–236.
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Webber, Mabel L. “Dr. John Rutledge and His Descendants.” South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine 31 (January 1930): 7-25.
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Weber, Paul J. “The Birth Order Oddity in Supreme Court Appointments.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 14 (Fall 1984): 561-568.
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Webster, Daniel. “Mr. Justice Story.” In Writings and Speeches, vol. 3, by Daniel Webster, 295-302. Boston: Little, Brown, 1903.
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Wechsler, Burton. “A Tribute to Justice Douglas.” Antioch Law Journal 1 (Fall 1981): 1-6.
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Wechsler, Herbert. “Mr. Chief Justice Stone.” Case and Comment 54 (September/October 1949): 14-20.
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Wechsler, Herbert. “Mr. Chief Justice Stone.” Indiana Law Journal 24 (Winter 1949): 195-202.
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Wechsler, Herbert. “Stone and the Constitution.” Columbia Law Review 46 (September 1946): 764-800.
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Wegman, Jesse. The Lost Founder: James Wilson and the Forgotten Fight for a People's Constitution. New York: Celadon Books, 2026.
The first major trade biography of Wilson in decades — published June 2026 by the New York Times editorial-board member behind Let the People Pick the President.
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Weidner, Paul A. “Justice Jackson and the Judicial Function.” Michigan Law Review 53 (February 1955): 567-594.
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Weidner, Paul A. “Justices Field and Miller: A Comparative Study in Judicial Attitudes and Values.” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1959.
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Weinrib, Laura. “The Limits of Dissent: Reassessing the Legal of the World War I Free Speech Cases.” Journal of Supreme Court History 44, no. 3 (2019): 278–294.
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Weisenburger, Francis P. "John McLean, Postmaster-General." Mississippi Valley Historical Review 18, no. 1 (1931): 23–33.
The pre-Court career that explains the man: under Monroe and Adams, McLean built the Post Office into the largest department in the government and ran its thousands of appointments with a nonpartisan skill that made him indispensable to every administration and trusted by none.
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Weisenburger, Francis P. The Life of John McLean: A Politician on the United States Supreme Court. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1937.
The whole improbable ascent: the New Jersey-born printer's apprentice who founded a Lebanon, Ohio newspaper, read law, reached Congress at twenty-seven, and built the Post Office into the government's largest machine before Jackson kicked him upstairs in 1829 — then thirty-two years on the bench spent, in no small part, running for president.
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Weisman, Morris. “Brandeis and the Lennox Case.” Commercial Law Journal 47 (February 1942): 36-41.
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Weiss, Leo. “Justice Murphy and the Welfare Questions.” Michigan Law Review 53 (February 1955): 541-566.
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Weissman, David L., and Murray A. Gordon. “Mr. Justice Black at 70: The Man and His Influence.” Lawyers Guild Review 16 (Fall 1956): 101-103.
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Weissman, Gary A. “Legal Esoterica.” Advocate (Idaho) 29 (January 1986): 26-28.
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Welch, James. “Roger B. Taney: Historical Allusions in His Supreme Court Decisions.” Master's thesis, Catholic University of America, 1950.
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Wellington, Harry H. Interpreting the Constitution: The Supreme Court and the Process of Adjudication. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990.
Argues that the Court reads the Constitution much as judges make common law — language, precedent, structure, and history weighed together with public morality, disciplined by adversary argument and the written opinion.
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Welliver, Judson C. “Louis D. Brandeis, Troublemaker.” The World Today 21 (1912): 1603.
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Wells, Catharine Pierce. Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Willing Servant to an Unknown God. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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Wells, Catharine Pierce. “Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and the American Civil War.” Journal of Supreme Court History 40, no. 3 (2015): 282–313.
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Wermiel, Stephen J. “The Nomination of Justice Brennan: Eisenhower's Mistake? A Look at the Historical Record.” Constitutional Commentary 11 (1995): 515.
The appointment from the Eisenhower papers, by the biographer who had the Brennan ones: the criteria the President gave Brownell (a Democrat, a Catholic, a state judge, under sixty-two), the parish priest asked whether the judge went to Mass, the two White House meetings of September 29, 1956, and the finding on the line everyone repeats, that 'It is probable, if not certain, that Eisenhower never spoke these precise words' and that 'The Eisenhower Library has searched for these words and has never found them.'
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Wermiel, Stephen J. “Writing Supreme Court Biography: A Single Lens View of a Nine-Sided Image.” Journal of Supreme Court History 19 (1994): 9–18.
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Werner, Ray O. “The Economics of the Joint Antitrust Dissents of Justices Harlan and Stewart.” Washington Law Review 48 (May 1973): 555-591.
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Wessel, Thomas R. “Republican Justice: The Department of Justice under Roosevelt and Taft, 1901-1903.” Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland, 1922.
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Wesser, Robert F. Charles Evans Hughes: Politics and Reform in New York, 1905–1910. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1967.
The scholarly study of the launching pad — Hughes's rise from the gas and insurance investigations that made his name to two terms as a progressive Republican governor of New York, battling his own party's machine.
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Wesser, Robert F. “Charles Evans Hughes and the Urban Sources of Political Progressivism.” New York Historical Society Quarterly 50 (October 1966): 365-400.
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West, Abby R. “Drew Pearson’s ‘Predictions’: Assessing the Stone Court’s Press Leaks.” Journal of Supreme Court History 49, no. 1 (2024): 66–84.
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West, Ellis M. “Justice Tom Clark and American Church-State Law.” Journal of Presbyterian History 54 (Winter 1976): 387-404.
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Westin, Alan F. “John Marshall Harlan and the Constitutional Rights of Negroes: The Transformation of a Southerner.” Yale Law Journal 66 (April 1957): 637-710.
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Westin, Alan F. “Out-of-Court Commentary by U.S. Supreme Court Justices, 1790-1962: Of Free Speech and Judicial Lockjaw.” Columbia Law Review 62 (March 1962): 633-669.
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Westin, Alan F. “Stephen J. Field and the Headnote to O'Neil v. Vermont: A Snapshot of the Fuller Court.” Yale Law Journal 67 (January 1958): 363-383.
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Westin, Alan F. “The First Justice Harlan: A Self-Portrait from His Private Papers.” Kentucky Law Journal 46 (Spring 1958): 321-366.
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Westin, Alan. “Populism and the Supreme Court.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1980: 62–77.
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Westin, David. “Justice Powell and His Law Clerks.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1987: 16–18.
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Wexler, Jay D. “Laugh Track II: Still Laughin'!” Yale Law Journal Pocket Part 117 (2007): 130.
The laughter tallies, second round: who got the laughs at oral argument in the 2005 Term, with Scalia first at fifty-four and Thomas at none.
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Weyland, Alexander M. Football Immortals. New York: Macmillan, 1962.
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Whatley, George C. “Justice John McKinley.” North Alabama History Association, Bulletin 4 (1959): 15-18.
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Wheeler, Charles B. “John Jay, 1926.” New York Historical Association Proceedings 7 (July 1926): 180-194.
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Wheeler, David H. “The Justices of the Supreme Court.” Chautauquan 23 (August 1896): 531-539.
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Wheeler, Russell R. “Judging What Justices Do Off the Bench.” Journal of Supreme Court History 15 (1990): 59–68.
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Wheeler, Russell. “Extrajudicial Activities of the Early Supreme Court.” Supreme Court Review 1973 (1973): 123-158.
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Wheeler, Russell. “Extrajudicial Activities of United States Supreme Court Justices, the Constitutional Period, 1790-1809.” Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1971.
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“Where Are They Now?” Newsweek 63 (May 11, 1964): 16.
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Whichard, Willis P. "James Iredell: Revolutionist, Constitutionalist, Jurist." In Seriatim: The Supreme Court Before John Marshall. 1998.
The best concise treatment of Iredell as a jurist — by his biographer.
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Whichard, Willis P. Justice James Iredell. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2000.
The standard modern biography and the clear place to begin.
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Whitaker, Robert A. “Defending Democracy: Speeches of the Warren Court Justices and Brown v. Board of Education.” Journal of Supreme Court History 46, no. 2 (2021): 181–205.
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White, Byron R. “Byron R. White Oral History Interview, JFK #1, May 6, 1964.” John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Oral History Program (1964).
The sitting justice, six months after Dallas, talking to Joseph F. Dolan for the Kennedy Library: the Oxford year and the embassy ('I met the Kennedy family first at that time'), Munich in the summer of 1939, the 1960 campaign ('I enlisted in his army'), and the Citizens organization the party thought 'an abomination.'
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White, Byron R. “Challenges for the U.S. Supreme Court and the Bar: Contemporary Reflections.” Antitrust Law Journal 51 (August 1982): 275-282.
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White, Byron R. “Justice Powell’s Contributions to the Court.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1987: 5–6.
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White, Byron R. “Supreme Court Review of Agency Decisions.” Administrative Law Review 26 (Winter 1974): 107-112.
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White, Byron R. “Work of the Supreme Court: A Nuts and Bolts Description.” New York State Bar Journal 54 (October 1982): 346-349.
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White, Charles. “A View from the Gallery: Rehnquist Shows No Mercy to an Opening Day Lawyer, and Curletti Gives a Polished Performance on Short Notice.” American Lawyer 2 (December 1980): 39-40.
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White, Edward D. “Proceedings on the Death of Mr. Chief Justice Fuller.” United States Reports 219 (1911): 15.
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White, Edward D. “Proceedings on the Death of Mr. Justice Harlan.” United States Reports 222 (1911): 25.
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White, Edward D. “Supreme Court of the United States.” American Bar Association Journal 7 (July 1921): 341-343.
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White, Edward J. “The Life of John Marshall.” American Law Review 55 (July 1921): 503-511.
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White, G. Edward. Earl Warren: A Public Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
The best analytical biography — G. Edward White, the legal historian, on the arc from California prosecutor and internment advocate to the Chief Justice who led a constitutional revolution, and on the plain moral vision that powered it.
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White, G. Edward. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
The standard scholarly biography and the deepest reckoning with Holmes's mind — six hundred pages from the University of Virginia's great legal historian.
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White, G. Edward. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
The short life by the author of the long one: G. Edward White condensed into 176 pages what he had spread over the 1993 Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self, for Oxford's Lives and Legacies series.
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White, G. Edward. Robert H. Jackson: A Life in Judgment. New York: Oxford University Press, 2025.
White gives the whole arc its full weight: the country lawyer who never finished law school, FDR's advocate, the Nuremberg prosecutor, and the author of the finest prose the Court has produced.
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White, G. Edward. The American Judicial Tradition: Profiles of Leading American Judges. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
G. Edward White's profiles of the leading American judges, from Marshall, Kent, Story, Shaw and Taney through Holmes, Brandeis, Hughes, Stone, Jackson, Cardozo, Hand, Frankfurter, Black, Warren, the second Harlan and Douglas to the Burger and Rehnquist Courts, each read for what it shows of a changing judicial tradition; Oxford, January 2007, xxx and 592 pages, a third revised edition. Not read.
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White, G. Edward. The Marshall Court and Cultural Change, 1815–1835 (Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court, vols. 3–4). Abridged ed., 1991.
The definitive institutional history of Marshall's mature Court — the boardinghouse deliberation, the single-opinion practice, the circuit work, and what dissent cost a justice who tried it.
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White, G. Edward. “Earl Warren as Jurist.” Virginia Law Review 67 (April 1981): 461-551.
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White, G. Edward. “Felix Frankfurter, the Old Boy Network, and the New Deal: The Placement of Elite Lawyers in Public Service in the 1930s.” Arkansas Law Review 39 (Spring 1986): 631-667.
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White, G. Edward. “Imagining the Marshall Court.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1986: 77–94.
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White, G. Edward. “John Marshall Harlan I: The Precursor.” American Journal of Legal History 19 (January 1975): 1-21.
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White, G. Edward. “Justice Robert H. Jackson ‘Arrives’ in Washington.” Journal of Supreme Court History 48, no. 2 (2023): 148–173.
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White, G. Edward. “Researching Oral History Materials: The Case of Earl Warren.” Law Library Journal 75 (Summer 1982): 355-361.
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White, G. Edward. “Salmon Portland Chase and the Judicial Culture of the Supreme Court in the Civil War Era.” Journal of Supreme Court History 21 (Special Edition 1996): 37–45.
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White, G. Edward. “The Lost Case of Solicitor General v. United States.” Journal of Supreme Court History 50, no. 3 (2025): 260–273.
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White, G. Edward. “The Rise and Fall of Justice Holmes.” Chicago Law Review 39 (Fall 1971): 55-77.
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White, G. Edward. “The Unacknowledged Lesson: Earl Warren and the Japanese Relocation Controversy.” Virginia Quarterly Review 55 (Autumn 1979): 613-629.
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White, James Boyd. “Human Dignity and the Claim of Meaning: Athenian Tragic Drama and Supreme Court Opinions.” Journal of Supreme Court History 27, no. 1 (2002): 45–64.
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White, Jonathan W. “The Lincoln Administration and the Supreme Court during the Civil War: A Letter by Attorney General Edward Bates.” Journal of Supreme Court History 37, no. 3 (2012): 261–265.
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White, Matthew, Jr. “Chief Justice Fuller.” Munsey's Magazine 11 (April 1894): 80-82.
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Whitehouse, Sheldon, and Jennifer Mueller. The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court. New York: The New Press, 2022.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Jennifer Mueller on the donors, front groups and Federalist Society machinery they say produced the present majority, with Citizens United as the decision that made the money possible; The New Press, October 2022, 288 pages. Not read.
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Whitelock, George. “Mr. Justice Moody, Lately Attorney General.” Green Bag 21 (June 1909): 263-266.
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Whitelock, William. The Life and Times of John Jay, Secretary of Foreign Affairs under the Confederation and First Chief Justice of the United States, with a Sketch of Public Events from the Opening of the Revolution to the Election of Jefferson. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1887.
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Whiteside, Ruth A. “Justice Joseph Bradley and the Reconstruction Amendment.” Ph.D. diss., Rice University, 1981.
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Whittaker, Charles E. “Dangers of Mass Disobedience.” Reader's Digest (1965).
The retired justice's public voice, three years after the Court: 'No group of men can be permitted, in a government of laws, to take the law into its own hands.'
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Whittaker, Charles E. “Reflections on Mr. Justice Brandeis.” St. Louis University Law Journal 11 (Fall 1966): 6-9.
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Whittaker, Charles E. “Role of the Supreme Court.” Arizona Law Review 17 (Fall 1963): 292-301.
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Whittaker, Charles E., and William Sloane Coffin Jr. Law, Order, and Civil Disobedience. Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute, 1967.
The retired Justice against William Sloane Coffin on civil disobedience, viii and 156 pages from the American Enterprise Institute in 1967, five years after the breakdown that ended his tenure, the book-length version of the case he made in the Reader's Digest.
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Whittington, Keith E. Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy: The Presidency, the Supreme Court, and Constitutional Leadership in U.S. History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.
Keith Whittington on judicial supremacy as something presidents built rather than something judges seized, traced through the constitutional leadership of the presidency across American history; Princeton, 2007, 303 pages, in the Princeton Studies in American Politics. Not read.
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Whittington, Keith E. “Reconstructing the Federal Judiciary: The Chase Impeachment and the Constitution.” Studies in American Political Development 9, no. 1 (1995).
The leading political-science account of the impeachment — what the Jeffersonians were actually trying to build, and how the acquittal fixed the boundaries of judicial independence that have held since.
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Wickersham, George W. “Hughes: Man and Statesman.” Independent 86 (June 19, 1916): 481.
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Wiecek, William M. The Birth of the Modern Constitution: The United States Supreme Court, 1941–1953 (Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court, vol. 12). New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
The Holmes Devise volume for the Stone and Vinson Courts, 1941 to 1953, 733 pages from Cambridge in 2006, between Tushnet's Hughes Court and the Warren years.
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Wiecek, William M. The Dark Past: The US Supreme Court and African Americans, 1800-2015. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024.
William Wiecek's 552-page history of the Court and Black Americans from 1800 to 2015, slavery, segregation and their sequels, by the author of the Holmes Devise volume on the Stone and Vinson Courts; Oxford, November 2024. Not read.
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Wiecek, William M. “Felix Frankfurter, Incorporation, and the Willie Francis Case.” Journal of Supreme Court History 26, no. 1 (2001): 53–66.
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Wiecek, William M. “Gladly Wolde He Teche: Students, Canon, and Supreme Court History.” Journal of Supreme Court History 20 (1995): 11–18.
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Wiecek, William M. “Justice David J. Brewer and ‘the Constitution in Exile.’” Journal of Supreme Court History 33, no. 2 (2008): 170–185.
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Wiecek, William M. “The ‘Imperial Judiciary’ in Historical Perspective.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1984: 61–89.
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Wiecek, William. “Review of: Timothy S. Huebner, Liberty and Union: The Civil War Era and American Constitutionalism.” Journal of Supreme Court History 42, no. 1 (2017): 118–127.
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Wiener, Frederick B. “Justice Hughes' Appointment: The Cotton Story Re-examined.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1981 (Annual 1981): 78-91.
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Wiener, Frederick B. “The Life and Judicial Career of William Henry Moody.” Master's thesis, Harvard University Law School, 1937.
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Wigmore, John H. “A New Way to Nominate Supreme Court Judges.” American Judicature Society Journal 29 (December 1945): 106-107.
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Wigmore, John H. “Justice Holmes and the Law of Torts.” Harvard Law Review 29 (April 1916): 601.
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Wigmore, John H. “New Way to Nominate Supreme Court Judges.” Kentucky State Bar Journal 10 (March 1946): 153-154.
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“Wiley B. Rutledge, Humanitarian.” American Bar Association Journal 35 (October 1949): 842.
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Wiley, Eugene V. “Justice Rutledge and State Taxation of Interstate Commerce.” Washington Law Quarterly 1950 (June 1950): 399-422.
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Wilkin, Robert, and John Hadden. “Harold Hitz Burton, 1888-1964.” American Bar Association Journal 50 (December 1964): 1148-1149.
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Wilkinson, J. Harvie, III. “Oversimplifying the Supreme Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 31, no. 1 (2006): 81–90.
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Wilkinson, J. Harvie. Serving Justice: A Supreme Court Clerk's View. New York: Charterhouse, 1974.
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Wilkinson, J. Harvie. “Honorable Lewis F. Powell, Jr.: Five Years on the Supreme Court.” University of Richmond Law Review 11 (Winter 1977): 259-267.
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Wilkinson, J. Harvie. “Justice John Marshall Harlan and the Values of Federalism.” Virginia Law Review 57 (October 1971): 1185-1221.
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Wilkinson, J. “Harvie, Sandra D. O'Connor, Richard H. Fallon, Jr., George C. Freeman, Jr., Gerald Gunther, and Oliver W. Hill. "A Tribute to Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr.” Harvard Law Review 101 (December 1987): 395-420.
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William H. Moody Papers — Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1879-1916.
Seventeen containers, 3,000 items and 3.5 linear feet spanning 1879 to 1916, and a reader should know before travelling that the weight of it falls on 1902 to 1906, when Moody was secretary of the navy and then attorney general: administration, patronage, the Panama Canal and the movements of the fleet, with miscellaneous writings and drafts of speeches.
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William J. Brennan Papers — Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1945–1998.
The papers themselves: 379,000 items in 1,088 containers, the case files of opinion and administrative files from his service on the Court, dockets from 1956 to 1975, and correspondence with Black, Douglas, Goldberg, Marshall and Warren.
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“William Johnson, Jr.” South Carolina Encyclopedia. 2006.
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William O. Douglas Papers — Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1801–1980.
Among the largest collections of any justice's papers at the Library: 636,500 items in 1,792 containers, the Court files of 1938 to 1975 'containing correspondence, memoranda, docket books, draft and final opinions' term by term, with the speeches, the environmental files and the family papers around them.
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Williams, C. Dickerman. “The 1924 Term: Recollections of Chief Justice Taft’s Law Clerk.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1989: 40–51.
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Williams, Charles F. “The Opinions of Anthony Kennedy: No Time for Ideology.” American Bar Association Journal 74 (March 1988): 56-61.
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Williams, Charlotte. “Hugo L. Black: A Study in the Judicial Process.” Ph.D. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1949.
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Williams, George H. Address on John Marshall, Delivered by Honorable George H. Williams before the Legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon, February 4, 1901. Salem, OR: W. H. Leeds, 1901.
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Williams, Jamye C. “Rhetorical Analysis of Thurgood Marshall's Arguments before the Supreme Court in the Public School Segregation Controversy.” Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University, 1959.
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Williams, Juan. Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary. New York: Times Books, 1998.
The best one-volume life, by a journalist who interviewed Marshall extensively in his final years.
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Williams, Julian E. The Case against William O. Douglas. Tulsa, OK: Christian Crusade Publications, 1970.
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Williams, Kenneth. Most Deserving of Death? An Analysis of the Supreme Court's Death Penalty Jurisprudence. Ashgate, 2012.
Kenneth Williams of South Texas College of Law arguing that the Court's capital jurisprudence since Furman has failed to confine the death penalty to the most culpable offenders; Ashgate, 2012, 216 pages, in the Law, Justice and Power series. Not read.
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Williams, Mark E. “The Pendulum Swings: Rehnquist and the De-emphasis of Individual Liberty in Criminal Procedure Analysis.” University of Detroit Law Review 65 (Winter 1988): 291-314.
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Williams, Samuel C. “A Remarkable Bench: Campbell, Jackson, and White.” Tennessee Law Review 16 (June 1941): 907-914.
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Williams, Samuel C. “Judge Horace H. Lurton.” Tennessee Law Review 18 (April 1944): 242-250.
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Williams, Stephen F. “Free Trade in Water Resources: Sporhase v. Nebraska ex. re. Douglas.” Supreme Court Economic Review 2 (1983): 89-110.
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Williston, Samuel. “Horace Gray.” In Great American Lawyers, vol. 8, edited by William D. Lewis, 137-188. Philadelphia: J. C. Winston Company, 1907.
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Willson, Augustus E. “John Marshall Harlan.” In The Lawyers and the Lawmakers of Kentucky, edited by H. Levin, 151-155. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1897.
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Wilson, Andrew. “The Influence of John Marshall on the Political History of the U.S.” Ph.D. diss., George Washington University, 1904.
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Wilson, Bradford P., ed. The Constitutional Legacy of William H. Rehnquist. West Academic Publishing, 2015.
A short symposium volume, 115 pages from West Academic in 2015, built as three principal essays with commentaries on each: federalism, criminal procedure, and the place of religion in the constitutional design, the three areas the editor takes to be Rehnquist's lasting contributions.
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Wilson, Henry H. “The Influence of Chief Justice Marshall on American Institutions.” Nebraska Law Bulletin 6 (February 1928): 327-354.
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Wilson, Henry. “Jeremiah S. Black and Edwin M. Stanton.” Atlantic Monthly 26 (October 1870): 463-475.
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Wilson, James G. “Constraints of Power: The Constitutional Opinions of Judges Scalia, Bork, Posner, Easterbrook, and Winter.” University of Miami Law Review 40 (September 1986): 1171-1266.
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Wilson, James Q. “The Flamboyant Mr. Powell.” Commentary 41 (January 1966): 31-35.
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Wilson, James. Selected Political Essays of James Wilson. Edited by Randolph Adams. New York: Knopf, 1930.
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Wilson, James. Works of James Wilson. Edited by Robert G. McCloskey. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967.
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Wilson, James. Works. Philadelphia: Lorenzo Press, 1804.
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Wilson, John R. “John Marshall.” American Law Review 22 (September/October 1888): 706-730.
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Wilson, Margaret B., and Diane Ridley. “A New Birth of Liberty: The Role of Thurgood Marshall's Civil Contribution.” Bombay Law Journal 6 (1979): 67-87.
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Wilson, Paul E. “A Time to Lose.” Journal of Supreme Court History 24, no. 2 (1999): 170–180.
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Wilson, Rufus R. “Mr. Lincoln's First Appointment to the Supreme Court.” Lincoln Herald 50 (December 1948): 26-27; 51 (February 1949): 39.
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Winant, John G. “Mr. Justice Brandeis.” Law Society Journal 7 (May 1936): 774-777.
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Winger, Stewart L. & Jonathan W. White, eds. Ex parte Milligan Reconsidered: Race and Civil Liberties from the Lincoln Administration to the War on Terror. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2020.
The modern scholarly reckoning with Davis's most famous opinion — a collection that carries Milligan from its Civil War origins through Reconstruction, the World War II Japanese-internment cases, and the post-9/11 detention debates.
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Winitsky, Marvin L. “Roger B. Taney: A Historiographical Inquiry.” Maryland Historical Magazine 69 (Spring 1974): 1-26.
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Winitsky, Marvin L. “The Jurisprudence of Roger B. Taney.” Ph.D. diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 1973.
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Winkler, Adam. We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights. New York: Liveright, 2018.
The National Book Award finalist that gives the Powell Memorandum its full historical frame — Powell's tobacco-industry years, the 1971 memo, and his Bellotti opinion as the hinge of the corporate-rights revolution that ran to Citizens United.
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Winkler, Adam. “Bank of the United States v. Deveaux and the Birth of Constitutional Rights for Corporations.” Journal of Supreme Court History 43, no. 3 (2018): 237–256.
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Winograd, Max. “Brandeis: Profile of a Commercial Lawyer.” Commercial Law Journal 62 (February 1957): 54-57.
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Winters, Glenn R., ed. Selected Readings: Judicial Selection and Tenure. Chicago: American Judicature Society, 1967.
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Winters, John W. “Opinion Variation as a Measure of Attitude Change in the Supreme Court: A Study of the Opinions of Justice Hugo L. Black from 1957 to 1968.” Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky, 1974.
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Wirtz, W. Willard. “Mr. Justice Rutledge: Teacher of Men.” Indiana Law Journal 25 (Summer 1950): 444-454.
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Wise, James W. Louis D. Brandeis: Jews Are Like That! New York: Brentano's, 1928.
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Wisniewski, Daniel J. “Heating Up a Case Gone Cold: Revisiting the Charges of Bribery and Official Misconduct Made against Supreme Court Justice Robert Cooper Grier in 1854–55.” Journal of Supreme Court History 38, no. 1 (2013): 1–19.
The only modern archival study centered on Grier himself — the Wheeling Bridge bribery allegations that nearly ended his career, reopened with the documents.
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Withers, John L. “The Administrative Theories and Practices of William Howard Taft.” Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1957.
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Witt, Elder. A Different Justice: Reagan and the Supreme Court. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, 1985.
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Witt, John Fabian. Patriots and Cosmopolitans: Hidden Histories of American Law (the Wilson chapter). 2007.
Witt's opening chapter is the sharpest short treatment of the Wilson paradox — the cosmopolitan legal philosopher of popular sovereignty who ended as a debtor fleeing his creditors.
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Wittke, Carl. “Mr. Justice Clarke. A Supreme Court Judge in Retirement” — Mississippi Valley Historical Review 36, no. 1 (1949): 27–50.
The study of the most remarkable thing Clarke did: resigning the Supreme Court at sixty-five, with a decade of service possible, to campaign for the League of Nations and world peace.
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Wogeler, William. “Scalia Says Justices Wield Little Influence over Each Other.” Los Angeles Daily Journal 102 (March 13, 1989): 2.
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Wohl, Alexander. Father, Son, and Constitution: How Justice Tom Clark and Attorney General Ramsey Clark Shaped American Democracy. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2013.
The fullest modern study, and an ingenious one — a dual biography of Tom Clark and his son Ramsey, the attorney general whose appointment prompted his father's retirement.
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Wohl, Alexander. “The Life of John Marshall Revisited.” Journal of Supreme Court History 22, no. 2 (1997): 131–139.
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Wohl, Alexander. “Tom Clark’s Transition from Attorney General to Supreme Court Justice.” Journal of Supreme Court History 38, no. 2 (2013): 168–193.
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Woldman, Albert A. “Justice Louis D. Brandeis: Crusader for Human Rights.” Cleveland Bar Association Journal 28 (March 1957): 67, 72-80.
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Wolf, Michael Allan. The Supreme Court and the Environment: The Reluctant Protector. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2012.
Edited opinions with introductions covering the Court's environmental decisions from the National Environmental Policy Act onward, by Michael Allan Wolf of the University of Florida; CQ Press, 512 pages, in the Supreme Court's Power in American Politics series, dated December 2011 by the carriers and 2012 by the Library. Not read.
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Wolf, Michael Allan. “The Supreme Court in United States History: A New Appreciation.” Journal of Supreme Court History 21, no. 2 (1996): 161–167.
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Wolf, Michael Allan. “‘Compelled by Conscientious Duty’: Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co. as Romance.” Journal of Supreme Court History 22, no. 2 (1997): 88–100.
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Wolfe, Christopher. “John Marshall and Constitutional Law.” Polity 15 (Spring 1982): 5-25.
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Wolfman, Bernard, Jonathan L. F. Silver, and Marjorie A. Silver. Dissent without Opinion: The Behavior of Justice William O. Douglas in Federal Tax Cases. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1975.
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Wolfman, Bernard, Jonathan L. F. Silver, and Marjorie A. Silver. “Behavior of Justice Douglas in Federal Tax Cases.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 122 (December 1973): 235-365.
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Woll, J. Albert. “Two Great Men Gone: A Tribute to Wiley Rutledge and Frank Murphy.” American Federationist 56 (October 1949): 36.
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Wood, Gertrude S. William Paterson of New Jersey, 1745–1806. Fair Lawn, NJ: Fair Lawn Press, 1933.
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Wood, John E. F. “John M. Harlan, as Seen by a Colleague in the Practice of Law.” Harvard Law Review 85 (December 1971): 377-381.
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Wood, Sandra L. “In the Shadow of the Chief: The Role of the Senior Associate Justice.” Journal of Supreme Court History 22, no. 2 (1997): 25–35.
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Woodard, Nelson E. “Postwar Reconstruction and International Order: A Study of the Diplomacy of Charles Evans Hughes, 1921-1925.” Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, 1970.
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Woodbridge, Dudley W. “John Marshall in Perspective.” Pennsylvania Bar Association Quarterly 27 (January 1956): 192-204.
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Woodbury, Charles Levi. Memoir of Hon. Levi Woodbury. Boston: David Clapp & Son, 1894.
The son's memorial, four decades on — the Victorian genre this site knows well (compare Tyler's Taney and the Story Life and Letters).
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Woods, Harold, and Geraldine Woods. Equal Justice: A Biography of Sandra Day O'Connor. Minneapolis: Dillon Press, 1985.
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Woods, William B., reporter. Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit Courts of the United States for the Fifth Judicial Circuit (4 vols.). Chicago: Callaghan & Co., 1875–1883.
Friedman & Israel call these his best memorial, and they are right: four volumes of Fifth Circuit reports that Woods compiled himself while sitting on the circuit, over Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.
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Woodward, Bob, and Scott Armstrong. The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979.
The famous — and famously controversial — behind-the-scenes account of the early Burger Court, built from clerk interviews and leaked documents.
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Woolf, Lord. “The Appellate Committee and the Supreme Court: Anglo-American Comparisons.” Journal of Supreme Court History 21, no. 2 (1996): 1–10.
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Worth, George C. “Honorable Joseph P. Bradley: The Passing of a Great Lawyer.” New Jersey Law Journal 20 (October 1897): 299-304.
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Wright, Charles A. “Hugo L. Black: A Great Man and a Great American.” Texas Law Review 50 (December 1971): 1-5.
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Wright, J. Skelly. “Justice at the Dock: The Maritime Worker and Justice Black.” UCLA Law Review 14 (1967): 521-535.
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Wrightsman, Lawrence S. Oral Arguments Before the Supreme Court: An Empirical Approach. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Lawrence Wrightsman's empirical study of oral argument, built on transcripts from eight recent terms and distinguishing ideological cases, on the death penalty, affirmative action, abortion and the environment, from the non-ideological ones on bankruptcy, tax and civil matters; Oxford, April 2008, 208 pages, in the American Psychology-Law Society series. Not read.
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Wrightsman, Lawrence S. The Psychology of the Supreme Court. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Lawrence Wrightsman's psychological account of the Court: selection and confirmation, the justices' backgrounds and routines, the role of clerks, the Chief Justice's influence, collegial dynamics and the predictability of votes, with an extended analysis of Bush v. Gore; Oxford, March 2006, 336 pages, in the American Psychology-Law Society series. Not read.
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Wu, John C. H. “Justice Holmes and the Common-Law Tradition.” Vanderbilt Law Review 14 (December 1960): 221-238.
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Wu, John C. H. “The Juristic Philosophy of Justice Holmes.” Michigan Law Review 21 (March 1923): 523-531.
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Wukasch, Barry C. “The Abe Fortas Controversy: A Research Note on the Senate's Role in Judicial Selection.” Western Political Quarterly 24 (March 1971): 24-27.
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Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. “Ethical Background of Hugo Black's Career: Thoughts Prompted by the Articles of Sheldon Hackney and Paul L. Murphy.” Alabama Law Review 36 (Spring 1985): 915-926.
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Wyman, Thomas B. Genealogy of the Name and Family of Hunt. Boston: Wilson, 1862-1863.
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Wyzanski, Charles E., Jr. “Brandeis.” Atlantic 198 (November 1956): 66-72.
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Wyzanski, Charles E., Jr. “The Democracy of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.” Vanderbilt Law Review 7 (April 1954): 311-324.
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