List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases_by_the_Warren_Court
This is a partial chronological list of cases decided by the United States Supreme Court during the Warren Court, the tenure of Chief Justice Earl Warren, from October 5, 1953, through June 23, 1969.
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| Case name | Focus | Citation | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toolson v. New York Yankees, Inc. | Antitrust | 346 U.S. 356 (1953) | baseball antitrust exemption upheld |
| Wilko v. Swan | Arbitration | 346 U.S. 427 (1953) | Claims under Securities Act of 1933 not arbitrable |
| Miller Brothers Co. v. Maryland | 347 U.S. 340 (1954) | use tax imposed by one state against merchant in another state violated Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment | |
| Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka | Racial Segregation | 347 U.S. 483 (1954) | reversed the ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson, "separate ... inherently unequal" |
| Hernandez v. Texas | 347 U.S. 475 (1954) | application of the Fourteenth Amendment to Mexican Americans | |
| Bolling v. Sharpe | Racial Segregation | 347 U.S. 497 (1954) | segregation in the District of Columbia |
| United States v. Harriss | 347 U.S. 612 (1954) | constitutionality of The Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act of 1946 | |
| Berman v. Parker | 348 U.S. 26 (1954) | eminent domain, takings | |
| United States v. International Boxing Club of New York | Antitrust | 348 U.S. 236 (1955) | boxing not exempt from antitrust regulation |
| Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States | 348 U.S. 272 (1955) | Federal government did not owe Indian tribe compensation for timber taken from tribal-occupied lands in Alaska under the 5th Amendment | |
| Commissioner v. Glenshaw Glass Co. | 348 U.S. 426 (1955) | definition of taxable income | |
| Williamson v. Lee | 348 U.S. 483 (1955) | Due Process Clause, economic liberties | |
| Quinn v. United States | 349 U.S. 155 (1955) | Fifth Amendment rights with regards to Congressional investigations. | |
| Lucy v. Adams | Racial Segregation | 350 U.S. 1 (1955) | established the right of all citizens to be accepted as students at the University of Alabama |
| Corn Products Refining Co. v. Commissioner | 350 U.S. 46 (1955) | Hedging futures gains are ordinary if on raw materials | |
| United Gas Pipe Line Co. v. Mobile Gas Service Corp. | 350 U.S. 332 (1956) | contracts under the Natural Gas Act of 1938 | |
| Federal Power Commission v. Sierra Pacific Power Co. | 350 U.S. 348 (1956) | contracts under the Federal Power Act | |
| Griffin v. Illinois | 351 U.S. 12 (1956) | access to court transcript for indigent appeals | |
| Communist Party v. Subversive Activities Control Board | 351 U.S. 115 (1956) | First of Two Cases involving compulsory registration of Communist Party members. Court didn't answer questions raised concerning constitutionality of Act requiring compulsory registration. | |
| Radovich v. National Football League | 352 U.S. 445 (1957) | professional football covered by antitrust laws | |
| Reid v. Covert | 354 U.S. 1 (1957) | treaty power, right to jury trial | |
| Watkins v. United States | 354 U.S. 178 (1957) | rights of a witness in refusing to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities Committee | |
| Yates v. United States | Free Speech | 354 U.S. 298 (1957) | free speech, distinction between expression of opinion and advocacy of action |
| Morey v. Doud | 354 U.S. 457 (1957) | States do not have power to make special exemptions in legislation for particular actors (overruled by City of New Orleans v. Dukes) | |
| Roth v. United States | Free Speech | 354 U.S. 476 (1957) | obscenity |
| Conley v. Gibson | 355 U.S. 41 (1957) | liberal pleading standards under Rule 8 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure | |
| McGee v. International Life Insurance Co. | 355 U.S. 220 (1957) | California did not violate the Due Process Clause when entering a binding judgment on a Texas corporation with "substantial connection[s]" to California | |
| Lambert v. California | 355 U.S. 225 (1957) | mens rea and ignorance of the law | |
| One, Inc. v. Olesen | 355 U.S. 371 (1958) | pro-homosexual writings and the Comstock laws | |
| Perez v. Brownell | 356 U.S. 44 (1958) | revocation of citizenship for voting in a foreign election | |
| Trop v. Dulles | Cruel and unusual punishment | 356 U.S. 86 (1958) | Eighth Amendment, loss of citizenship |
| Sherman v. United States | 356 U.S. 369 (1958) | Entrapment provisions apply to actions of government informers as well as agents | |
| Byrd v. Blue Ridge Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 356 U.S. 525 (1958) | application of the Erie doctrine | |
| Ellis v. United States | 356 U.S. 674 (1958) | Due Process, in forma pauperis | |
| United States v. Procter & Gamble Co. | 356 U.S. 677 (1958) | The secrecy of Grand jury testimonies | |
| Kent v. Dulles | 357 U.S. 116 (1958) | right to travel, power of Secretary of State | |
| Societe Internationale v. Rogers | 357 U.S. 197 (1958) | appropriateness of involuntary dismissal of a case in which petitioner failed to produce records of a Swiss bank account | |
| NAACP v. Alabama | 357 U.S. 449 (1958) | freedom of association, privacy of membership lists | |
| Speiser v. Randall | 357 U.S. 513 (1958) | loyalty oaths | |
| Cooper v. Aaron | Racial Segregation | 358 U.S. 1 (1958) | enforcement of desegregation, "massive resistance" |
| United Gas Pipe Line Co. v. Memphis Light, Gas, and Water Division | 358 U.S. 103 (1958) | contracts under the Natural Gas Act of 1938 | |
| Cammarano v. United States | 358 U.S. 498 (1959) | business expenses incurred for the "promotion or defeat of legislation" are not tax deductible | |
| Bartkus v. Illinois | 359 U.S. 121 (1959) | "separate sovereigns" exception to double jeopardy; federal and state officials may cooperate in criminal investigations | |
| Frank v. Maryland | 359 U.S. 360 (1959) | warrantless administrative searches are permissible under the Fourth Amendment | |
| Beacon Theatres v. Westover | 359 U.S. 500 (1959) | right to civil jury trial under the Seventh Amendment, determination of legal & equitable issues | |
| Louisiana Power & Light Co. v. City of Thibodaux | 360 U.S. 25 (1959) | Abstention doctrine | |
| Barenblatt v. United States | 360 U.S. 109 (1959) | upholding conviction for refusing to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities Committee against First Amendment challenge | |
| Smith v. California | 361 U.S. 147 (1959) | sale of obscene books | |
| Bates v. City of Little Rock | 361 U.S. 516 (1960) | First Amendment, compelled disclosure of membership lists | |
| United States v. Raines | 362 U.S. 17 (1960) | Fifteenth Amendment, Civil Rights Act | |
| Federal Power Commission v. Tuscarora Indian Nation | 362 U.S. 99 (1960) | eminent domain over Indian lands | |
| Flora v. United States | 362 U.S. 145 (1960) | Pay Income Tax Then Litigate, Internal Revenue Act | |
| Dusky v. United States | 362 U.S. 402 (1960) | standard for adjudicative competence | |
| Commissioner v. Duberstein | 363 U.S. 278 (1960) | definition of a 'gift' for taxation purposes | |
| Flemming v. Nestor | 363 U.S. 603 (1960) | no property right in Social Security benefits | |
| Boynton v. Virginia | 364 U.S. 454 (1960) | Racial Segregation | |
| Times Film Corp. v. City of Chicago | 365 U.S. 43 (1961) | required submission of films to rating boards is not necessarily unconstitutional | |
| Monroe v. Pape | 365 U.S. 167 (1961) | municipalities cannot be held liable under the Civil Rights Act of 1871 | |
| Aro Mfg. Co. v. Convertible Top Replacement Co. | 365 U.S. 336 (1961) | doctrine of repair and reconstruction in United States patent law | |
| Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority | 365 U.S. 715 (1961) | state action | |
| Gomillion v. Lightfoot | Racial Segregation | 364 U.S. 339 (1960) | race-based electoral districting |
| James v. United States | 366 U.S. 213 (1961) | assessment of income tax on embezzled funds | |
| McGowan v. Maryland | 366 U.S. 420 (1961) | constitutionality of laws with religious origins but secular purposes | |
| Braunfeld v. Brown | 366 U.S. 599 (1961) | constitutionality of Sabbath laws requiring Sunday closure of stores | |
| Gallagher v. Crown Kosher Super Market of Massachusetts, Inc. | 366 U.S. 617 (1961) | Massachusetts blue laws upheld against challenge by Kosher grocery store | |
| Communist Party v. Subversive Activities Control Board | 367 U.S. 1 (1961) | Second of Two Cases involving compulsory registration of Communist Party members. Court upheld constitutionality of Act requiring compulsory registration. | |
| Scales v. United States | 367 U.S. 203 (1961) | upheld the conviction of Junius Scales for violating of the Smith Act on the basis on his membership in the Communist Party | |
| Jarecki v. G.D. Searle & Co. | 367 U.S. 303 (1961) | using noscitur a sociis to interpret the Excess Profits Tax Act of 1950 | |
| Torcaso v. Watkins | 367 U.S. 488 (1961) | oaths, religious test, First Amendment | |
| Poe v. Ullman | 367 U.S. 497 (1961) | ripeness to challenge statute banning contraceptives | |
| Mapp v. Ohio | Criminal procedure | 367 U.S. 643 (1961) | search and seizure, exclusionary rule |
| Marcus v. Search Warrant | 367 U.S. 717 (1961) | Procedural burden on state in seizure of obscene material | |
| Hamilton v. Alabama | 368 U.S. 52 (1961) | Absence of defendant's counsel at the time of his arraignment violated his rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment | |
| Hoyt v. Florida | 368 U.S. 57 (1961) | all-male jury in a woman's murder trial did not violate Fourteenth Amendment | |
| Cramp v. Board of Public Instruction | 368 U.S. 278 (1961) | Florida statute required every employee of the State and its subdivisions to swear in writing that, he has never lent his "aid, support, advice, counsel or influence to the Communist Party." violated his rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment | |
| Oyler v. Boles | 368 U.S. 448 (1962) | habitual criminal sentencing and due process | |
| United Gas Pipe Line Co. v. Ideal Cement Co. | 369 U.S. 134 (1962) | application of the Pullman abstention doctrine | |
| Fong Foo v. United States | 369 U.S. 141 (1962) | double jeopardy against federal courts | |
| Baker v. Carr | Redistricting, malapportionment | 369 U.S. 186 (1962) | malapportionment of electoral districts; equal protection clause; one person, one vote |
| Goldblatt v. Hempstead | 369 U.S. 590 (1962) | due process, takings clause, safety regulations | |
| NLRB v. Washington Aluminum Co. | 370 U.S. 9 (1962) | Unorganized workers have the right to engage in concerted activity over working conditions without making a prior specific demand. | |
| Engel v. Vitale | Establishment Clause | 370 U.S. 421 (1962) | school prayer |
| Manual Enterprises v. Day | 370 U.S. 478 (1962) | magazine containing nude photographs of men not considered obscene | |
| Bantam Books, Inc. v. Sullivan | 372 U.S. 58 (1963) | government may not blacklist books and magazines it deems "objectionable" | |
| Jones v. Cunningham | 371 U.S. 236 (1963) | state prison inmates have the right to petition for habeas corpus | |
| Wong Sun v. United States | 371 U.S. 471 (1963) | fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine in a narcotics case | |
| Schlude v. Commissioner | 372 U.S. 128 (1963) | what income must be included for income tax purposes when accrual method of accounting is used | |
| Edwards v. South Carolina | 372 U.S. 229 (1963) | First Amendment, protest marches at state capital | |
| Gideon v. Wainwright | Criminal procedure | 372 U.S. 335 (1963) | right to counsel |
| Douglas v. California | 372 U.S. 353 (1963) | Fourteenth Amendment; right of poor defendants to criminal court appeals | |
| Gray v. Sanders | 372 U.S. 368 (1963) | state county districts must conform to "one person, one vote" | |
| Gibson v. Florida Legislative Investigation Committee | 372 U.S. 539 (1963) | requiring person divulge information contained in an organization's membership lists violates freedom of association under First Amendment | |
| Ferguson v. Skrupa | 372 U.S. 726 (1963) | substantive due process, economic liberties | |
| Brady v. Maryland | Criminal procedure | 373 U.S. 83 (1963) | exculpatory evidence and due process |
| Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Paul | 373 U.S. 132 (1963) | Preemption, Dormant Commerce Clause | |
| Silver v. New York Stock Exchange | 373 U.S. 341 (1963) | duty of self-regulation imposed upon the New York Stock Exchange by the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 did not exempt it from the antitrust laws | |
| Ker v. California | 374 U.S. 23 (1963) | incorporation of the Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search & seizure against the states | |
| Abington School District v. Schempp | Establishment Clause | 374 U.S. 203 (1963) | constitutionality of mandatory bible reading in public schools |
| Sherbert v. Verner | Free Exercise Clause | 374 U.S. 398 (1963) | strict scrutiny for religiously-based discrimination in unemployment compensation |
| England v. Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners | 375 U.S. 411 (1964) | refining procedures for Pullman abstention from deciding issues of state law | |
| Wesberry v. Sanders | Redistricting, malapportionment | 376 U.S. 1 (1964) | U.S. Congressional districts must conform to "one person, one vote" |
| Compco Corp. v. Day-Brite Lighting, Inc. | 376 U.S. 234 (1964) | preemption of state unfair competition laws which restrict sale of unpatented items | |
| Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Stiffel Co. | 376 U.S. 225 (1964) | preemption of state unfair competition laws which restrict sale of unpatented items, decided same day as Compco Corp. v. Day-Brite Lighting, Inc. | |
| New York Times Co. v. Sullivan | Free Speech | 376 U.S. 254 (1964) | freedom of speech, libel |
| Banco Nacional de Cuba v. Sabbatino | 376 U.S. 398 (1964) | jurisdiction of federal courts over acts of foreign countries; act of state doctrine | |
| Schneider v. Rusk | 377 U.S. 163 (1964) | Naturalized U.S. citizens have the right to return to and reside in their native countries, and retain their U.S. citizenship, even if they never return to the United States | |
| Massiah v. United States | 377 U.S. 201 (1964) | Sixth Amendment prohibition on police speaking to suspect represented by counsel | |
| Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County | Racial Segregation | 377 U.S. 218 (1964) | closing the local school and giving white students vouchers to attend schools outside of the county was unconstitutional under the equal protection clause |
| Wilbur-Ellis Co. v. Kuther | 377 U.S. 422 (1964) | extension of doctrine of repair and reconstruction to enhancement of device's function | |
| Reynolds v. Sims | Redistricting, malapportionment | 377 U.S. 533 (1964) | state legislature districts must conform to "one person, one vote" |
| Malloy v. Hogan | 378 U.S. 1 (1964) | Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination was applicable within state courts as well as federal courts | |
| Griffin v. Maryland | 378 U.S. 130 (1964) | segregation protests | |
| Barr v. City of Columbia | 378 U.S. 146 (1964) | due process and ex post facto law | |
| Robinson v. Florida | Cruel and unusual punishment | 378 U.S. 153 (1964) | segregation protests |
| Jacobellis v. Ohio | Free Speech | 378 U.S. 184 (1964) | "I know [obscenity] when I see it[.]" – Justice Potter Stewart |
| Quantity of Books v. Kansas | 378 U.S. 205 (1964) | Seizure of allegedly obscene materials requires prior adversary hearing | |
| Bell v. Maryland | 378 U.S. 226 (1964) | segregation protests | |
| Bouie v. City of Columbia | 378 U.S. 347 (1964) | due process and ex post facto law | |
| United States v. Continental Can Co. | 378 U.S. 441 (1964) | antitrust | |
| Escobedo v. Illinois | Criminal procedure | 378 U.S. 478 (1964) | right to remain silent |
| Cooper v. Pate | 378 U.S. 546 (1964) | The court ruled for the first time that state prison inmates have the standing to sue in federal court to address their grievances under the Civil Rights Act of 1871. | |
| Beck v. Ohio | 379 U.S. 89 (1964) | probable cause and searches incident to a lawful arrest | |
| McLaughlin v. Florida | 379 U.S. 184 (1964) | striking down an anti-miscegenation law aimed at prevent cohabitation of interracial couples | |
| Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States | 379 U.S. 241 (1964) | interstate commerce, civil rights, public accommodations | |
| Katzenbach v. McClung | 379 U.S. 294 (1964) | civil rights and interstate commerce, decided same day as Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States | |
| Stanford v. Texas | 379 U.S. 476 (1965) | Fourth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, Unconstitutionality of State issued general warrants | |
| Cox v. Louisiana | 379 U.S. 536 (1965) | First Amendment, "breach of the peace" statutes | |
| Freedman v. Maryland | 380 U.S. 51 (1965) | First Amendment, motion picture censorship | |
| United States v. Seeger | 380 U.S. 163 (1965) | definition of religion for a military draft exemption | |
| Swain v. Alabama | 380 U.S. 202 (1965) | use of struck jury | |
| Hanna v. Plumer | 380 U.S. 460 (1965) | interpretation of the Erie doctrine, Civil Procedure | |
| Dombrowski v. Pfister | 380 U.S. 479 (1965) | federal injunction against state criminal trial for subversion | |
| Harman v. Forssenius | 380 U.S. 528 (1965) | Virginia's partial repeal of the poll tax violated 24th Amendment | |
| Griffin v. California | 380 U.S. 609 (1965) | prosecutor commenting on a defendant's refusal to testify violates the defendant's Fifth Amendment rights | |
| One 1958 Plymouth Sedan v. Pennsylvania | 380 U.S. 693 (1965) | evidence that is obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment may not be relied on to sustain a civil forfeiture | |
| Griswold v. Connecticut | Right to privacy | 381 U.S. 479 (1965) | privacy, birth control |
| Estes v. Texas | 381 U.S. 532 (1965) | overturning Billy Sol Estes conviction on 14th Amendment due process grounds due to pretrial publicity | |
| Lamont v. Postmaster General | 381 U.S. 301 (1965) | Declared unconstitutional a Federal statute requiring that addressees of "Communist political propaganda" affirmatively indicate their request to receive such mailings | |
| Albertson v. Subversive Activities Control Board | 382 U.S. 70 (1965) | Communist Party of the United States of America members could not be required to register with the government under the Fifth Amendment | |
| Graham v. John Deere Co. | 383 U.S. 1 (1966) | nonobviousness as a condition of patentability | |
| Baxstrom v. Herold | 383 U.S. 107 (1966) | Prisoners committed to civil mental institutions have a right to a hearing to determine whether or not they are in fact mentally disordered. | |
| Brown v. Louisiana | 383 U.S. 131 (1966) | first amendment, right to protest | |
| South Carolina v. Katzenbach | 383 U.S. 301 (1966) | Voting Rights Act, Fifteenth Amendment | |
| Memoirs v. Massachusetts | Free Speech | 383 U.S. 413 (1966) | obscenity |
| Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections | 383 U.S. 663 (1966) | poll taxes are unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause | |
| United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs | 383 U.S. 715 (1966) | federal court jurisdiction over pendent claims | |
| United States v. Price | 383 U.S. 787 (1966) | the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner | |
| Sheppard v. Maxwell | 384 U.S. 333 (1966) | the Sam Sheppard case, defendant's right to a fair trial vs. freedom of the press | |
| Miranda v. Arizona | Criminal procedure | 384 U.S. 436 (1966) | self-incrimination ("right to remain silent") |
| Federal Trade Commission v. Dean Foods Co. | 384 U.S. 597 (1966) | federal agencies can use the All Writs Act to seek an injunction against a threatened action that will substantially interfere with the agency's performance of its statutory duty | |
| Katzenbach v. Morgan | 384 U.S. 641 (1966) | voting rights, Section 5 power | |
| Schmerber v. California | 384 U.S. 757 (1966) | Unless exigent circumstances exist, state may not take warrantless blood sample from a suspect; Evidence from a blood sample is not compelled testimony and therefore does not implicate the Fifth Amendment privilege against self incrimination | |
| Garrity v. New Jersey | 385 U.S. 493 (1967) | rights of police officers against self-incrimination | |
| Whitus v. Georgia | 385 U.S. 545 (1967) | racial discrimination in jury selection | |
| Redrup v. New York | 386 U.S. 767 (1967) | striking down state power to censor written works of fiction | |
| In Re Gault | 387 U.S. 1 (1967) | due process, juveniles | |
| Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner | 387 U.S. 136 (1967) | reviewability of administrative decisions | |
| Toilet Goods Association, Inc. v. Gardner | 387 U.S. 158 (1967) | ripeness in the context of judicial review of administrative decisions | |
| Afroyim v. Rusk | 387 U.S. 253 (1967) | federal government cannot strip a person of his citizenship | |
| Reitman v. Mulkey | 387 U.S. 369 (1967) | states may repeal laws providing protection against racial discrimination by Amending their state Constitution of referendum if their immediate objective is neutral and not to facilitate private racism | |
| Loving v. Virginia | Racial Segregation | 388 U.S. 1 (1967) | state laws banning interracial marriage (anti-miscegenation laws) |
| Berger v. New York | 388 U.S. 41 (1967) | Telephone tapping in a bribery case, Fourth Amendment | |
| Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts | 388 U.S. 130 (1967) | libel; effect of Sullivan on private figures | |
| United States v. Wade | 388 U.S. 218 (1967) | no police lineup without counsel | |
| Gilbert v. California | 388 U.S. 263 (1967) | handwriting | |
| United States v. Robel | 389 U.S. 258 (1967) | First Amendment, right of association | |
| Prima Paint Corp. v. Flood & Conklin Mfg. Co. | 388 U.S. 395 (1967) | Separability principle: challenges to enforceability of contracts with arbitration clauses must be decided by arbitrator unless clause itself is challenged | |
| Katz v. United States | Criminal procedure | 389 U.S. 347 (1967) | wiretapping as search and seizure |
| Zschernig v. Miller | 389 U.S. 429 (1968) | foreign relations and state property law preventing inheritance by nonresident aliens | |
| Mora v. McNamara | 389 U.S. 934 (1967) | denial of certiorari in a case questioning the legality of the Vietnam War | |
| Haynes v. United States | 390 U.S. 85 (1968) | Compulsory firearm registration as self-incrimination | |
| Provident Tradesmens Bank & Trust Co. v. Patterson | 390 U.S. 102 (1968) | indispensable parties under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure | |
| Albrecht v. Herald Co. | 390 U.S. 145 (1968) | minimum price agreements between wholesalers and franchisees unlawful under the Sherman Act | |
| Avery v. Midland County | 390 U.S. 474 (1968) | local government districts must conform to "one person, one vote" | |
| Ginsberg v. New York | 390 U.S. 629 (1968) | States can prohibit sale of obscene material to minors | |
| Levy v. Louisiana | 391 U.S. 68 (1968) | An illegitimate child may still sue on behalf of a deceased parent; to deny them this right violates the Fourteenth Amendment | |
| Duncan v. Louisiana | 391 U.S. 145 (1968) | selective incorporation, trial by jury | |
| United States v. O'Brien | 391 U.S. 367 (1968) | free speech, burning draft cards | |
| Menominee Tribe v. United States | 391 U.S. 404 (1968) | Tribal hunting and fishing rights, treaty interpretation | |
| Green v. County School Board of New Kent County | Racial Segregation | 391 U.S. 430 (1968) | "freedom-of-choice" desegregation plan held unconstitutional |
| Witherspoon v. Illinois | 391 U.S. 510 (1968) | constitutional status of a death-qualified jury | |
| Pickering v. Board of Education | 391 U.S. 563 (1968) | public employees' free speech rights | |
| Terry v. Ohio | Criminal procedure | 392 U.S. 1 (1968) | search and seizure, power of police to stop and frisk suspicious persons |
| Flast v. Cohen | 392 U.S. 83 (1968) | taxpayer standing | |
| United States v. Southwestern Cable Co. | 392 U.S. 157 (1968) | Administrative law | |
| King v. Smith | 392 U.S. 309 (1968) | Aid to Families with Dependent Children cannot be denied to families of qualifying children based on a substitute father | |
| Mancusi v. DeForte | 392 U.S. 364 (1968) | Fourth Amendment allows reasonable expectation of privacy to exist at workplace | |
| Jones v. Mayer | 392 U.S. 409 (1968) | housing discrimination | |
| Epperson v. Arkansas | 393 U.S. 97 (1968) | religiously motivated state law prohibiting the teaching of evolution in publicly funded schools | |
| Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District | Free Speech | 393 U.S. 503 (1969) | freedom of speech in public schools |
| Shuttlesworth v. Birmingham | 394 U.S. 147 (1969) | overbreadth of local ordinance used by city officials to ban civil rights march | |
| Stanley v. Georgia | 394 U.S. 557 (1969) | private possession of obscene material protected under First Amendment | |
| Street v. New York | 394 U.S. 576 (1969) | free speech, flag burning | |
| Shapiro v. Thompson | 394 U.S. 618 (1969) | Right to travel | |
| Leary v. United States | 395 U.S. 6 (1969) | Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 ruled unconstitutional under the Fifth Amendment | |
| Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC | 395 U.S. 367 (1969) | Fairness Doctrine, broadcaster responsibilities, freedom of speech | |
| Brandenburg v. Ohio | Free Speech | 395 U.S. 444 (1969) | freedom of speech, incitement to riot |
| Powell v. McCormack | 395 U.S. 486 (1969) | political question doctrine, justiciability | |
| Kramer v. Union School District | 395 U.S. 621 (1969) | right to vote in a special election district | |
| Lear, Inc. v. Adkins | 395 U.S. 653 (1969) | overturning the doctrine of licensee estoppel in U.S. patent law | |
| Chimel v. California | 395 U.S. 752 (1969) | search and seizure incident to arrest | |
| Benton v. Maryland | 395 U.S. 784 (1969) | double jeopardy |
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| Warren Court | |
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| October 5, 1953 – June 23, 1969 (15 years, 261 days) | |
| Seat | Supreme Court Building Washington, D.C. |
| No. of positions | 9 |
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