20 Court Cases to Know

  1. Marbury vs. Madison (1803)
  2. Dartmouth College vs. Woodward (1819)
  3. McCulloch vs. Maryland (1819)
  4. Gibbons vs. Ogden (1824)
  5. Commonwealth vs. Hunt (1842)
  6. Cherokee Nation vs. Georgia (1831)
  7. Worcester vs. Georgia (1832)
  8. Dred Scott vs. Sandford (1857)
  9. Munn vs. Illinois (1877)
  10. The Civil Rights Cases (1883)
  11. In re Debs (1895)
  12. Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)
  13. Schenck vs. U.S. (1919)
  14. Korematsu vs. United States (1944)
  15. Brown vs. Board of Education, Topeka, KS (1954)
  16. Gideon vs. Wainwright (1963)
  17. Miranda vs. Arizona (1966)
  18. Roe vs. Wade (1973)
  19. United States vs. Nixon (1974)
  20. Bakke vs. Board of Regents (1978)