Supreme Court Explorer
Explore landmark Supreme Court decisions by constitutional area, issue, date, and their connections to the wider Common vs. Commie research graph.
Trump v. United States
Held that a former president has absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct within exclusive constitutional authority and at least presumptive immunity for official acts, but no immunity for unofficial acts.
Explore case → 603 U.S. 369 · 2024Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo
Overruled Chevron deference and held that courts must exercise independent judgment in deciding whether an agency acted within its statutory authority.
Explore case → 600 U.S. 181 · 2023Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College
Held that the race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina violated constitutional/equivalent equal-protection requirements.
Explore case → 597 U.S. 215 · 2022Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
Held that the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion and overruled Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
Explore case → 597 U.S. 1 · 2022New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen
Held that the Second and Fourteenth Amendments protect carrying a handgun for self-defense outside the home and articulated a historical-tradition framework for firearm regulation.
Explore case → 585 U.S. 878 · 2018Janus v. AFSCME
Held that requiring nonconsenting public employees to pay agency fees to a public-sector union violates the First Amendment.
Explore case → 576 U.S. 644 · 2015Obergefell v. Hodges
Held that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to civil marriage under the Fourteenth Amendment.
Explore case → 567 U.S. 519 · 2012National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius
Upheld the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate as a tax while rejecting it as a valid exercise of the Commerce Clause and limiting the Medicaid expansion remedy.
Explore case → 558 U.S. 310 · 2010Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
Held that the First Amendment bars certain government restrictions on independent political expenditures by corporations and unions.
Explore case → 554 U.S. 570 · 2008District of Columbia v. Heller
Held that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm for lawful purposes such as self-defense in the home.
Explore case → 410 U.S. 113 · 1973Roe v. Wade
Recognized a federal constitutional right to abortion under substantive due process, subject to a trimester framework later modified by subsequent cases.
Explore case → 395 U.S. 444 · 1969Brandenburg v. Ohio
Protected advocacy of force or law violation unless it is directed to inciting imminent lawless action and likely to produce it.
Explore case → 384 U.S. 436 · 1966Miranda v. Arizona
Required specified warnings and procedural safeguards before custodial interrogation may produce statements admissible against a suspect.
Explore case → 376 U.S. 254 · 1964New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
Required public officials seeking damages for defamatory falsehoods relating to official conduct to prove actual malice.
Explore case → 372 U.S. 335 · 1963Gideon v. Wainwright
Required states to provide counsel to indigent defendants charged with serious criminal offenses.
Explore case → 367 U.S. 643 · 1961Mapp v. Ohio
Applied the exclusionary rule to the states for evidence obtained through unconstitutional searches and seizures.
Explore case → 347 U.S. 483 · 1954Brown v. Board of Education
Held that state-imposed racial segregation in public schools violates the Equal Protection Clause.
Explore case → 22 U.S. (9 Wheat.) 1 · 1824Gibbons v. Ogden
Read Congress’s commerce power to reach interstate navigation and invalidated a conflicting state-granted monopoly.
Explore case → 17 U.S. (4 Wheat.) 316 · 1819McCulloch v. Maryland
Upheld Congress’s authority to create a national bank under implied powers and rejected Maryland’s tax on the federal bank.
Explore case → 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137 · 1803Marbury v. Madison
Established the Supreme Court’s authority to decline enforcement of federal legislation that conflicts with the Constitution.
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