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Landmark Cases

The biography-of-a-case genre — a single decision told at book length, from Dred Scott to Roe.

The reading list — 78 books

Kluger, Richard. Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality. 1976.

Lewis, Anthony. Gideon’s Trumpet. 1964.

Lewis, Anthony. Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment. 1991.

Friendly, Fred W. Minnesota Rag: The Dramatic Story of the Landmark Supreme Court Case That Gave New Meaning to Freedom of the Press. 1981.

Polenberg, Richard. Fighting Faiths: The Abrams Case, the Supreme Court, and Free Speech. 1987.

Healy, Thomas. The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind. 2013.

Garrow, David J. Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade. 1994.

King, Gilbert. Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America. 2012.

Lane, Charles. The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction. 2008.

Fehrenbacher, Don E. The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics. 1978.

Finkelman, Paul. Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation’s Highest Court. 2018.

Stewart, David O. Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln’s Legacy. 2009.

Holt, Michael F. By One Vote: The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876. 2008.

Jones, Howard. Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy. 1987.

Lofgren, Charles A. The Plessy Case: A Legal-Historical Interpretation. 1987.

Garraty, John A., ed. Quarrels That Have Shaped the Constitution. 1964.

Friendly, Fred W., and Martha J. H. Elliott. The Constitution, That Delicate Balance. 1984.

Irons, Peter. The Courage of Their Convictions: Sixteen Americans Who Fought Their Way to the Supreme Court. 1988.

Klarman, Michael J. From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality. 2004.

Meltsner, Michael. Cruel and Unusual: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment. 1973.

Miller, Arthur S., and Jeffrey H. Bowman. Death by Installments: The Ordeal of Willie Francis. 1988.

Prettyman, Barrett, Jr. Death and the Supreme Court. 1961.

Robertson, Lindsay G. Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands. 2005.

Bollinger, Lee C., and Geoffrey R. Stone, eds. Money, Politics, and the First Amendment: Fifty Years of Supreme Court Decisions and Campaign Finance Reforms. 2026.

Tenhundfeld, Mark J. State of Segregation: America's Freedom Rights Struggles as Told by Alabama. 2026.

Hartley, Roger C. The Assault on American Labor Law: Unions before the Supreme Court, 1965-2025. 2026.

Hoffer, Williamjames Hull. The "Sick Chicken" Case: The US Supreme Court and the New Deal. 2025.

Nelson, Adam R. Dartmouth College v. Woodward: Colleges, Corporations, and the Common Good. 2025.

Richotte, Keith, Jr. The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told: Native America, the Supreme Court, and the U.S. Constitution. 2025.

Barkow, Rachel Elise. Justice Abandoned: How the Supreme Court Ignored the Constitution and Enabled Mass Incarceration. 2025.

Driver, Justin. The Fall of Affirmative Action: Race, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Higher Education. 2025.

Starkey, Brando Simeo. Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System. 2025.

Douglas, Joshua A. The Court v. the Voters: The Troubling Story of How the Supreme Court Has Undermined Voting Rights. 2024.

Wiecek, William M. The Dark Past: The US Supreme Court and African Americans, 1800-2015. 2024.

Cottrol, Robert J., and Brannon P. Denning. To Trust the People with Arms: The Supreme Court and the Second Amendment. 2023.

Pritchard, A. C., and Robert B. Thompson. A History of Securities Law in the Supreme Court. 2023.

Burton, Orville Vernon, and Armand Derfner. Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court. 2021.

Chemerinsky, Erwin. Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights. 2021.

Pizzi, William T. The Supreme Court's Role in Mass Incarceration. 2021.

Lazarus, Richard J. The Rule of Five: Making Climate History at the Supreme Court. 2020.

Brown, Steven P. Alabama Justice: The Cases and Faces That Changed a Nation. 2020.

Peretti, Terri Jennings. Partisan Supremacy: How the GOP Enlisted Courts to Rig America's Election Rules. 2020.

United States House of Representatives, Committee on Natural Resources. H. Res. 279, “Insular Cases Resolution”: Legislative Hearing before the Committee on Natural Resources, House of Representatives, 117th Congress, 1st Session, May 12, 2021. 2021.

Bloom, Lackland H., Jr. Do Great Cases Make Bad Law?. 2014.

Goldstein, Leslie F. The U.S. Supreme Court and Racial Minorities: Two Centuries of Judicial Review on Trial. 2017.

Steiker, Carol S., and Jordan M. Steiker. Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment. 2016.

Cannon, Jonathan Z. Environment in the Balance: The Green Movement and the Supreme Court. 2015.

Maclin, Tracey. The Supreme Court and the Fourth Amendment's Exclusionary Rule. 2013.

Mann, Ronald J. Bankruptcy and the U.S. Supreme Court. 2017.

Getman, Julius G. The Supreme Court on Unions: Why Labor Law Is Failing American Workers. 2016.

Ely, James W., Jr. The Contract Clause: A Constitutional History. 2016.

Timberlake, Richard H. Constitutional Money: A Review of the Supreme Court's Monetary Decisions. 2013.

Kuhner, Timothy K. Capitalism v. Democracy: Money in Politics and the Free Market Constitution. 2014.

Ball, Dewi Ioan. The Erosion of Tribal Power: The Supreme Court's Silent Revolution. 2016.

Carr, M. Kelly. The Rhetorical Invention of Diversity: Supreme Court Opinions, Public Arguments, and Affirmative Action. 2018.

Murley, John A., and Sean D. Sutton. The Supreme Court Against the Criminal Jury: Social Science and the Palladium of Liberty. 2014.

Heins, Marjorie. Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom, and the Anti-Communist Purge. 2013.

Barbas, Samantha. Newsworthy: The Supreme Court Battle over Privacy and Press Freedom. 2017.

Strub, Whitney. Obscenity Rules: Roth v. United States and the Long Struggle over Sexual Expression. 2013.

Freyer, Tony Allan. The Passenger Cases and the Commerce Clause: Immigrants, Blacks, and States' Rights in Antebellum America. 2014.

Smith, J. Douglas. On Democracy's Doorstep: The Inside Story of How the Supreme Court Brought “One Person, One Vote” to the United States. 2014.

Clancy, Martin, and Tim O'Brien. Murder at the Supreme Court: Lethal Crimes and Landmark Cases. 2013.

Levine, Lee, and Stephen Wermiel. The Progeny: Justice William J. Brennan's Fight to Preserve the Legacy of New York Times v. Sullivan. 2014.

Lurie, Jonathan. The Supreme Court and Military Justice. 2013.

Maltz, Earl M. Dred Scott and the Politics of Slavery. 2007.

Rountree, Clarke. Judging the Supreme Court: Constructions of Motives in Bush v. Gore. 2007.

Doherty, Brian. Gun Control on Trial: Inside the Supreme Court Battle Over the Second Amendment. 2008.

Stein, Marc. Sexual Injustice: Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe. 2010.

Green, Steven K. The Bible, the School, and the Constitution: The Clash That Shaped Modern Church-State Doctrine. 2012.

Soltero, Carlos R. Latinos and American Law: Landmark Supreme Court Cases. 2006.

Rivers, Christina R. The Congressional Black Caucus, Minority Voting Rights, and the U.S. Supreme Court. 2012.

Zelden, Charles L. The Supreme Court and Elections: Into the Political Thicket. 2010.

Wolf, Michael Allan. The Supreme Court and the Environment: The Reluctant Protector. 2012.

Sloss, David L., Michael D. Ramsey, and William S. Dodge, eds. International Law in the U.S. Supreme Court: Continuity and Change. 2011.

Bohm, Robert M. The Past as Prologue: The Supreme Court's Pre-Modern Death Penalty Jurisprudence and Its Influence on the Supreme Court's Modern Death Penalty Decisions. 2012.

Williams, Kenneth. Most Deserving of Death? An Analysis of the Supreme Court's Death Penalty Jurisprudence. 2012.

Levy, Robert A., and William Mellor. The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom. 2008.

Urofsky, Melvin I. Supreme Decisions: Great Constitutional Cases and Their Impact. 2012.

Also listed in the JSCH Index: 128 further works

Works listed under this heading in the JSCH Index that have not been read for these pages. Each is given as cited there, with a note on where a copy can be had; none carries a review.

  1. Abrams, Douglas E. “The Little League Champions Benched by Jim Crow in 1955: Resistance and Reform after Brown v. Board of Education.” Journal of Supreme Court History 38, no. 1 (2013): 51–62.[Free online] Read it →
  2. Alito, Samuel A. Jr. “The Origin of the Baseball Antitrust Exemption: Federal Baseball Club of Baltimore, Inc. v. National League of Professional Baseball.” Journal of Supreme Court History 34, no. 2 (2009): 183–195.[Free online] Read it →
  3. Altschuler, Bruce E. “A Look Back at the Steel Seizure Case.” Journal of Supreme Court History 33, no. 3 (2008): 341–352.[Free online] Read it →
  4. Anderson, Jeffrey M. “Conscience in the Court, 1931-1946: Religion as Duty and Choice.” Journal of Supreme Court History 26, no. 1 (2001): 25–52.[Free online] Read it →
  5. Baker, H. Robert. “A Better Story in Prigg v. Pennsylvania?” Journal of Supreme Court History 39, no. 2 (2014): 169–189.[Free online] Read it →
  6. Barnes, James B. “The Font of Federal Power: Wickard v. Filburn and the Aggregation Principle.” Journal of Supreme Court History 42, no. 1 (2017): 49–66.[Free online] Read it →
  7. Belknap, Michal R. “Dennis v. United States: Great Case Or Cold War Relic?” Journal of Supreme Court History 18 (1993): 41–58.[Free online] Read it →
  8. Belknap, Michal R. “Why Dennis v. United States is a Landmark Case.” Journal of Supreme Court History 34, no. 3 (2009): 289–302.[Free online] Read it →
  9. Bernstein, David E. “Lochner and Constitutional Continuity.” Journal of Supreme Court History 36, no. 2 (2011): 116–128.[Free online] Read it →
  10. Bernstein, David E. “Plessy versus Lochner: The Berea College Case.” Journal of Supreme Court History 25, no. 1 (2000): 93–111.[Free online] Read it →
  11. Bernstein, David E. “Two Asian Laundry Cases.” Journal of Supreme Court History 24, no. 1 (1999): 95–111.[Free online] Read it →
  12. Bowman,Winston. “Feat of Clay: Muhammad Ali’s Legal Fight Against the Vietnam Draft.” Journal of Supreme Court History 44, no. 3 (2019): 307–324.[Free online] Read it →
  13. Brandwein, Pamela. “A Lost Jurisprudence of the Reconstruction Amendments.” Journal of Supreme Court History 41, no. 3 (2016): 329–346.[Free online] Read it →
  14. Bressman, Jeremy. “A New Standard of Review: Craig v. Boren and Brennan’s ‘Heightened Scrutiny’ Test in Historical Perspective.” Journal of Supreme Court History 32, no. 1 (2007): 85–95.[Free online] Read it →
  15. Breyer, Stephen G. “A Look Back at the Dred Scott Decision.” Journal of Supreme Court History 35, no. 2 (2010): 110–121.[Free online] Read it →
  16. Bright, Myron H. “The Case of William Dick: Ransom County, North Dakota.” Journal of Supreme Court History 35, no. 1 (2010): 25–34.[Free online] Read it →
  17. Brown, Steven P. “The Girard Will and Twin Landmarks of Supreme Court History.” Journal of Supreme Court History 41, no. 1 (2016): 7–20.[Free online] Read it →
  18. Brownell, Herbert. “Brown v. Board of Education: Revisited.” Journal of Supreme Court History 18 (1993): 21–28.[Free online] Read it →
  19. Capozzola, Christopher. “Body and Soul: The Selective Draft Law Cases and World War I.” Journal of Supreme Court History 44, no. 3 (2019): 295–306.[Free online] Read it →
  20. Clinton, Robert L. “Precedent as Mythology: The Case of Marbury v. Madison.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1989: 78–97.[Print]
  21. Compton, John W. “Easing the Shoe Where it Pinches: The Lottery Case and the Demise of Dual Federalism.” Journal of Supreme Court History 40, no. 2 (2015): 133153.[Free online] Read it →
  22. Cox, Thomas H. “Contesting Commerce: Gibbons v. Ogden, Steam Power, and Social Change.” Journal of Supreme Court History 34, no. 1 (2009): 56–74.[Free online] Read it →
  23. Davies, Ross E. “A Tall Tale of The Brethren.” Journal of Supreme Court History 33, no. 2 (2008): 186–199.[Free online] Read it →
  24. Dennisont, George M. “The Dorr War and Political Questions.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1979: 45–62.[Print]
  25. Dierenfield, Bruce J. “‘The Most Hated Woman in America’: Madalyn Murray and the Crusade against School Prayer.” Journal of Supreme Court History 32, no. 1 (2007): 62–84.[Free online] Read it →
  26. Doherty, Brendan J. “Interpreting the Bill of Rights and the Nature of Federalism: Baron v. City of Baltimore.” Journal of Supreme Court History 32, no. 3 (2007): 210–228.[Free online] Read it →
  27. Dumbauld, Edward. “The Case of the Mutinous Mariner.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1977: 52–58, 69.[Print]
  28. Dyk, Timothy B. “The Graver Tank Litigation in the Supreme Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 30, no. 3 (2005): 271–283.[Free online] Read it →
  29. Finkelman, Paul. “Prigg v. Pennsylvania Understanding Justice Story’s Proslavery Nationalism.” Journal of Supreme Court History 22, no. 2 (1997): 51–64.[Free online] Read it →
  30. Flowers, Ronald B. “The Naturalization of Douglas Clyde Macintosh, Alien Theologian.” Journal of Supreme Court History 25, no. 3 (2000): 243–270.[Free online] Read it →
  31. Frankel, Robert P., Jr. “Before Marbury: Hylton v. United States and the Origins of Judicial Review.” Journal of Supreme Court History 28, no. 1 (2003): 1–13.[Free online] Read it →
  32. Franklin, John Hope. “A Half-Century of Presidential Race Initiatives: Some Reflections.” Journal of Supreme Court History 24, no. 2 (1999): 226–237.[Free online] Read it →
  33. Franz, Patricia L. “Ohio v. The Bank: An Historical Examination of Osborn v. The Bank of the United States.” Journal of Supreme Court History 24, no. 1 (1999): 112137.[Free online] Read it →
  34. Frasca, Ralph. “The Helderberg Advocate: A Public-Nuisance Prosecution a Century before Near v. Minnesota.” Journal of Supreme Court History 26, no. 3 (2001): 215–230.[Free online] Read it →
  35. Freyer, Tony A. and Daniel Thomas. “The Passenger Cases Reconsidered in Transatlantic Commerce Clause History.” Journal of Supreme Court History 36, no. 3 (2011): 216–235.[Free online] Read it →
  36. Freyer, Tony A. “Cooper v. Aaron (1958): A Hidden Story of Unanimity and Division.” Journal of Supreme Court History 33, no. 1 (2008): 89–109.[Free online] Read it →
  37. Freyer, Tony A. “Swift and Erie: The Trials of an Ephemeral Landmark Case.” Journal of Supreme Court History 34, no. 3 (2009): 261–274.[Free online] Read it →
  38. Frost, Daniel. “Protection Against Eugenics: A Comparison of Two Jurisprudences.” Journal of Supreme Court History 42, no. 3 (2017): 275–294.[Free online] Read it →
  39. Garnett, Richard W. “The Story of Kedroff v. St. Nicholas Cathedral.” Journal of Supreme Court History 38, no. 1 (2013): 80–93.[Free online] Read it →
  40. Gaughan, Anthony J. “The Arlington Cemetery Case: A Court and a Nation Divided.” Journal of Supreme Court History 37, no. 1 (2012): 1–21.[Free online] Read it →
  41. Goldstein, Robert Justin. “The Grapes of McGrath: The Supreme Court and the Attorney General’s List of Subversive Organizations in Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath (1951).” Journal of Supreme Court History 33, no. 1 (2008): 68–88.[Free online] Read it →
  42. Gonda, Jeffrey D. “Litigating Racial Justice at the Grassroots: the Shelley Family, Black Realtors, and Shelley V. Kraemer (1948).” Journal of Supreme Court History 39, no. 3 (2014): 329–346.[Free online] Read it →
  43. Gordon, Sarah Barringer. “The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America.” Journal of Supreme Court History 28, no. 1 (2003): 14–29.[Free online] Read it →
  44. Greenburg, Jack. “If….” Journal of Supreme Court History 24, no. 2 (1999): 181–200.[Free online] Read it →
  45. Griswold, Erwin N. “The Pentagon Papers Case: A Personal Footnote.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1984: 112–116.[Print]
  46. Harring, Sidney L. and Kathryn Swedlow. “‘The Defendant Has Seemed to Live a Charmed Life’: Hopt v. Utah: Territorial Justice, The Supreme Court of the United States, and Late Nineteenth-Century Death Penalty Jurisprudence.” Journal of Supreme Court History 25, no. 1 (2000): 40–71.[Free online] Read it →
  47. Hickok, Eugene. “National League of Cities and the Ephemeral Nature of Significant Supreme Court Cases.” Journal of Supreme Court History 34, no. 3 (2009): 303314.[Free online] Read it →
  48. Hite, Gregory Nelson. “Race, Education and the Courts: A Review of James T. Patterson’s Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy.” Journal of Supreme Court History 26, no. 3 (2001): 296–304.[Free online] Read it →
  49. Hockett, Jeffrey D. “The Battle over Brown’s Legitimacy.” Journal of Supreme Court History 28, no. 1 (2003): 30–53.[Free online] Read it →
  50. Hockett, Jeffrey. “Brown v. Board of Education and the Politics That Created a Constitutional Icon.” Journal of Supreme Court History 46, no. 3 (2021): 292–330.[Free online] Read it →
  51. Hoffer, Williamjames Hull. “Plessy v. Ferguson: The Effects of Lawyering on a Challenge to Jim Crow.” Journal of Supreme Court History 39, no. 1 (2013): 1–21.[Free online] Read it →
  52. Hohenstein, ., Kurt. “Just What the Doctor Ordered: The Harrison Anti-Narcotic Act, the Supreme Court, and the Federal Regulation of Medical Practice, 1915-1919.” Journal of Supreme Court History 26, no. 3 (2001): 231–256.[Free online] Read it →
  53. Howard, J. Woodford, Jr. “The Cramer Treason Case.” Journal of Supreme Court History 21, no. 1 (1996): 49–60.[Free online] Read it →
  54. Huebner, Timothy S. “‘In Defiance of Judge Taney’: Black Constitutionalism and Resistance to Dred Scott.” Journal of Supreme Court History 45, no. 3 (2020): 215235.[Free online] Read it →
  55. Ishitani, M. Henry. “An End to Rebel ‘Punishment’: The Test Oath Cases and the Constitutional Politics of Confederate Disqualification.” Journal of Supreme Court History 49, no. 3 (2024): 240–269.[Free online] Read it →
  56. 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.[Free online] Read it →
  57. Johnson, Calvin H. “The Four Good Dissenters in Pollock.” Journal of Supreme Court History 32, no. 2 (2007): 162–177.[Free online] Read it →
  58. Jones, Rachel E. “Rosenberger’s Unexplored History.” Journal of Supreme Court History 46, no. 1 (2021): 107–130.[Free online] Read it →
  59. Joyce, Craig. “Wheaton v. Peters: The Untold Story of the Early Reporters.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1985: 35–92.[Print]
  60. Karachuk, Robert Feikema. “Error or Appeal? Navigating Review Under the Supreme Court’s Admiralty Jurisdiction, 1789-1800.” Journal of Supreme Court History 27, no. 2 (2002): 93–113.[Free online] Read it →
  61. Kens, Paul. “Lochner v. New York: Rehabilitated and Revised, but Still Reviled.” Journal of Supreme Court History 20 (1995): 31–46.[Free online] Read it →
  62. Kens, Paul. “The Crédit Mobilier Scandal and the Supreme Court: Corporate Power, Corporate Person, and Government Control in the Mid-nineteenth Century.” Journal of Supreme Court History 34, no. 2 (2009): 170–182.[Free online] Read it →
  63. Kersch, Ken I. “The Gompers v. Buck’s Stove Saga: A Constitutional Case Study in Dialogue, Resistance, and the Freedom of Speech.” Journal of Supreme Court History 31, no. 1 (2006): 28–57.[Free online] Read it →
  64. Killenbeck, Mark R. “A Prudent Regard to Our Own Good? The Commerce Clause, in Nation and States.” Journal of Supreme Court History 38, no. 3 (2013): 281–308.[Free online] Read it →
  65. Kmiec, Douglas W. “The Supreme Court in Times of Hot and Cold War: Learning from the Sounds of Silence for a War on Terrorism.” Journal of Supreme Court History 28, no. 3 (2003): 270–299.[Free online] Read it →
  66. Knowles, Helen J. “May It Please the Court? The Solicitor General’s Not-So-‘Special’ Relationship: Archibald Cox and the 1963-1964 Reapportionment Cases.” Journal of Supreme Court History 31, no. 3 (2006): 279–297.[Free online] Read it →
  67. Knowles, Helen J. “‘Omak’s Minimum Pay Law Joan D’Arc’: Telling the Local Story of West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (1937).” Journal of Supreme Court History 37, no. 3 (2012): 283–304.[Free online] Read it →
  68. Knowles-Gardner, Helen J. “Without a Little Help from Your Friends: The Supreme Court’s Rejection of the American Jewish Congress Amicus Brief in NAACP v. Alabama ex rel. Patterson (1958).” Journal of Supreme Court History 50, no. 1 (2025): 54–88.[Online, restricted]
  69. Knowles-Gardner, Helen J. “‘The ct is disposed to consider the merits…Wow!’: Anthony Lewis Takes Us Inside the Oral Arguments in NAACP v. Alabama ex rel. Flowers (1964).” Journal of Supreme Court History 49, no. 3 (2024): 213–239.[Free online] Read it →
  70. Kruse, Kevin M. “Personal Rights, Public Wrongs: The Gaines Case and the Beginning of the End of Segregation.” Journal of Supreme Court History 22, no. 2 (1997): 113–130.[Free online] Read it →
  71. Kull, Andrew. “Post-Plessy, Pre-Brown: ‘Logical Exactness’ in Enforcing Equal Rights.” Journal of Supreme Court History 24, no. 2 (1999): 155–169.[Free online] Read it →
  72. Laycock, Douglas. “Edward Schempp and His Family.” Journal of Supreme Court History 38, no. 1 (2013): 63–79.[Free online] Read it →
  73. Lemieux, Scott E. “The Exception That Defines the Rule: Marshall’s Marbury Strategy and the Development of Supreme Court Doctrine.” Journal of Supreme Court History 28, no. 2 (2003): 197–211.[Free online] Read it →
  74. Lendler, Marc. “The Time to Kill a Snake: Gitlow v. New York and the Bad-Tendency Doctrine.” Journal of Supreme Court History 36, no. 1 (2011): 11–29.[Free online] Read it →
  75. Levy, David W. “Before Brown: The Racial Integration of American Higher Education.” Journal of Supreme Court History 24, no. 3 (1999): 298–313.[Free online] Read it →
  76. Levy, David W. “Twenty-One Months of Hell and the Supreme Court to the Rescue in McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents.” Journal of Supreme Court History 45, no. 1 (2020): 28–43.[Free online] Read it →
  77. Lewis, Walker. “Backstage at Dartmouth College.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1977: 29–37.[Print]
  78. Mack, Kenneth W. “Civil Disobedience, State Action, and Lawmaking Outside the Courts: Robert Bell’s Encounter with American Law.” Journal of Supreme Court History 39, no. 3 (2014): 347–371.[Free online] Read it →
  79. Makar, Scott D. “Free Press in 1940s Florida: Pennekamp v. Florida.” Journal of Supreme Court History 42, no. 3 (2017): 295–313.[Free online] Read it →
  80. Maltz, Earl M. “The Burger Court and the Conflict over the Rational Basis Test: The Untold Story of Massachusetts Bd. of Retirement v. Murgia.” Journal of Supreme Court History 39, no. 2 (2014): 264–285.[Free online] Read it →
  81. Mann, Ronald. “Balancing Bankruptcy and Environmental Law: Midlantic National Bank v. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.” Journal of Supreme Court History 42, no. 1 (2017): 101–117.[Free online] Read it →
  82. Marcus, Maeva. “Georgia v. Brailsford.” Journal of Supreme Court History 21, no. 2 (1996): 57–72.[Free online] Read it →
  83. McAllister, Stephen R. “Wheaton v. Greenleaf: A (Story) Tale of Three Reporters.” Journal of Supreme Court History 23, no. 2 (1998): 53–64.[Free online] Read it →
  84. McKeown, M. Margaret. “The Trees Are Still Standing: The Backstory of Sierra Club v. Morton.” Journal of Supreme Court History 44, no. 2 (2019): 189–214.[Free online] Read it →
  85. Meck, Andrew H. “An Accident of History: The Fourth Amendment as Applied to Schools and New Jersey v. T.L.O.” Journal of Supreme Court History 47, no. 3 (2022): 305–323.[Free online] Read it →
  86. Miller, Isabel. “‘Our Leading Feminist’: Dorothy Kenyon and the Origins of Equal Protection for Women in Hoyt v. Florida.” Journal of Supreme Court History 49, no. 3 (2024): 270–287.[Free online] Read it →
  87. Monroe, Elizabeth Brand. “The Influence of the Dartmouth College Case on the American Law of Educational Charities.” Journal of Supreme Court History 32, no. 1 (2007): 1–21.[Free online] Read it →
  88. Morgan, Richard. “The Flag Salute Cases Reconsidered.” Journal of Supreme Court History 34, no. 3 (2009): 273–288.[Free online] Read it →
  89. Mosnier, Joseph. “The Demise of an ‘Extraordinary Criminal Procedure’: Klopfer v. North Carolina and the Incorporation of the Sixth Amendment’s Speedy Trial Provision.” Journal of Supreme Court History 21, no. 2 (1996): 136–160.[Free online] Read it →
  90. Nelson, Michael. “Goldberg v. Kelly: The Case, the Clerk, and the Justice.” Journal of Supreme Court History 47, no. 2 (2022): 162–178.[Free online] Read it →
  91. Norgren, Jill. “The Cherokee Nation Cases of the 1830s.” Journal of Supreme Court History 19 (1994): 65–82.[Free online] Read it →
  92. Orth, John V. “The Judicial Amendment.” Journal of Supreme Court History 37, no. 2 (2012): 125–133.[Free online] Read it →
  93. Peters, Shawn Francis. “Re-hearing ‘Fighting Words’: Chaplinksy v. New Hampshire in Retrospect.” Journal of Supreme Court History 24, no. 3 (1999): 282–297.[Free online] Read it →
  94. Peterson, Gary. “A Closer Look at Allen.” Journal of Supreme Court History 42, no. 1 (2017): 28–48.[Free online] Read it →
  95. Powe, L. A., Jr. “The Obscenity Bargain: Ralph Ginzberg for Fanny Hill.” Journal of Supreme Court History 35, no. 2 (2010): 166–176.[Free online] Read it →
  96. Power, Garrett. “Advocates at Cross-Purposes: The Briefs on Behalf of Zoning in the Supreme Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 22, no. 2 (1997): 79–87.[Free online] Read it →
  97. Prettyman, E. Barrett Jr. “The Unconstitutional Conviction of ‘Baby.’” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1978: 68–76.[Print]
  98. Rabban, David M. “Free Speech: The Lost Years.” Journal of Supreme Court History 25, no. 2 (2000): 145–160.[Free online] Read it →
  99. Rau, Donald. “Three Cheers for Father Cummings.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1977: 20–28.[Print]
  100. Rauchberg, Ronald S. “Berea College v. Kentucky: Scientific Racism in the Supreme Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 45, no. 3 (2020): 262–286.[Free online] Read it →
  101. Rhee, Jeannie. “In Black and White: Chinese in the Mississippi Delta.” Journal of Supreme Court History 19 (1994): 117–132.[Free online] Read it →
  102. Rogers, Donald W. “Workers Against the City: The Fight for Free Speech in Hague v. CIO.” Journal of Supreme Court History 46, no. 1 (2021): 131–135.[Free online] Read it →
  103. Rosenberg, Gerald N. “African-American Rights After Brown.” Journal of Supreme Court History 24, no. 2 (1999): 201–225.[Free online] Read it →
  104. Rothera, Evan C. “The Tenacious ‘Twin Relic’: Republicans, Polygamy, and The Late Corporation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints v. United States.” Journal of Supreme Court History 41, no. 1 (2016): 21–28.[Free online] Read it →
  105. Roy, Deborah Ann. “The 1963 Good Friday Parade in Birmingham, Alabama: Walker v. City of Birmingham (1967) and Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham (1969).” Journal of Supreme Court History 38, no. 3 (2013): 413–431.[Free online] Read it →
  106. Scheiber, Harry N. “Property Rights versus ‘Public Necessity’: A Perspective on Emergency Powers and the Supreme Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 28, no. 3 (2003): 339–369.[Free online] Read it →
  107. Schmidt, Christopher W. “The Sit-In Cases: Explaining the Great Aberration of the Warren Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 43, no. 3 (2018): 294–320.[Free online] Read it →
  108. Sheehan, Charles J. “‘Lost Laws’ to ‘Eat Anywhere’; D.C. v. Thompson and the Road to Brown.” Journal of Supreme Court History 47, no. 3 (2022): 284–304.[Free online] Read it →
  109. Shennan, Claire. “A New Era of Poverty Litigation: The Warren Court’s Consideration of the Rights of Aid Recipients in King v. Smith.” Journal of Supreme Court History 50, no. 3 (2025): 274–298.[Online, restricted]
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  112. Strub, Whitney. “Slouching towards Roth: Obscenity and the Supreme Court, 1945–1957.” Journal of Supreme Court History 38, no. 2 (2013): 121–138.[Free online] Read it →
  113. Strum, Philippa. “‘We Always Tell Our Children They Are Americans’: Mendez V. Westminster and the Beginning of the End of School Segregation.” Journal of Supreme Court History 39, no. 3 (2014): 307–328.[Free online] Read it →
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