APUSH Supreme Court Cases
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Roe v. Wade
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1973 All state laws prohibiting abortions were made unconstitutional based on a woman's right to privacy
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Furman v. Georgia
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1972 Death penalty is unconstitutional unless fairly applied
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Heart of Atlanta Motel v. U.S.
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1964 Upholds Civil Rights Act of 1964, which is broken when an African American customer is denied service at a motel
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Gideon v. Wainwright
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1963 All people charged with a felony must be provided legal counsel
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Escobedo v. Illinois
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1964 Police must honor a person's request to have an attorney present during interrogation
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Miranda v. Arizona
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1966 Determines the rights of an arrested person
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Baker v. Carr
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1962 Opens court for numerous voting suits
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Engel v. Vitale
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1962 Ruled that State Sponsored prayer of any type is unconstitutional because it goes against the First Amendment's establishment of the religion clause
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
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1954 Rules separate inherently unequal and instructs states to integrate
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Bakke v. Regents of the University of California
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1978 Bans racial quotas
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Dred Scott v. Sandford
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1857 Defined slaves as property and rules the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional because the Federal Government does not have the rights to limit slavery in the territories because slaves are property
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Gibbons v. Ogden
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1824 Congress may regulate interstate commerce
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Muller v. Oregon
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1908 Reenforces the constitutionality an Oregon law that limits women to ten hour work days in factories and laundries
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McCulloch v. Maryland
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1819 Determines that no state can control a federal government agency
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Korematsu v. U.S.
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1944 Upholds the idea that the government's need to protect against espionage outweighs a person's rights
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Wabash Case
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1886 States have no power to regulate interstate commerce
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U.S. v. Schenck
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1919 Determines that speech may be suppressed if it creates a clear and present danger
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Insular Cases
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1901-1905 Determines that people living in American territories are not necessarily subject to the rights of a U.S. citizen
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The Charles River Bridge Case
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1837 A reversal of Dartmouth College v. Woodward. This case determines that a contract could be broken to benefit the general welfare
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Marbury v. Madison
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1803 Establishes judicial review
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Dartmouth College v. Woodward
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1819 Reaffirms the power of contracts by stating that a contract can not be arbitrarily changed without the consent of both parties
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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1896 Establishes \"separate, but equal\"
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Fletcher v. Peck
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1810 Reaffirms the sanctity of contracts by validating an original contract in Georgia that offered extensive land grants, despite the issue's associated corruption
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Slaughter-House Cases
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1873 Determines that the federal government is under no obligation to protect the \"privileges and immunities\" of citizens of a particular state against arbitrary actions by that state's government
