List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Burger Court
This is a chronological list of notable cases decided by the United States Supreme Court during the tenure of Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger (23 June 1969 through 26 September 1986).
| Case name | Citation | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Goldberg v. Kelly | 397 U.S. 254 (1970) | procedural due process, hearing requirement |
| Walz v. Tax Commission of the City of New York | 397 U.S. 664 (1970) | tax exemption for churches |
| Williams v. Florida | 399 U.S. 78 (1970) | twelve-man jury |
| North Carolina v. Alford | 400 U.S. 25 (1970) | guilty plea in criminal case |
| Oregon v. Mitchell | 400 U.S. 112 (1970) | age and voting rights in state elections |
| Baird v. State Bar of Arizona | 401 U.S. 1 (1971) | states cannot ban people from legal practice due to Communist party membership |
| Younger v. Harris | 401 U.S. 37 (1971) | abstention doctrine |
| Citizens to Preserve Overton Park v. Volpe | 401 U.S. 402 (1971) | judicial review of administrative agency actions |
| Griggs v. Duke Power Co. | 401 U.S. 424 (1971) | employment discrimination; disparate effect of employer practices |
| Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education | 402 U.S. 1 (1971) | use of busing for school desegregation |
| California v. Byers | 402 U.S. 424 (1971) | Statute requiring drivers to provide personal information at the scene of an accident does not infringe on one's Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination |
| Coates v. Cincinnati | 402 U.S. 611 (1971) | criminal offenses on sidewalk |
| Cohen v. California | 403 U.S. 15 (1971) | freedom of speech, fighting words/obscenity, “fuck the draft” |
| Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents | 403 U.S. 388 (1971) | implied right of action in the Fourth Amendment |
| Lemon v. Kurtzman | 403 U.S. 602 (1971) | laws without a secular purpose violate the Establishment Clause |
| Clay v. United States | 403 U.S. 698 (1971) | Since the Appeal Board gave no reason for the denial of a conscientious objector exemption, petitioner's conviction must be reversed |
| New York Times Co. v. United States | 403 U.S. 713 (1971) | freedom of the press, national security, Pentagon Papers |
| Reed v. Reed | 404 U.S. 71 (1971) | gender discrimination in estate settlement |
| Parisi v. Davidson | 405 U.S. 34 (1972) | conscientious objector status |
| Eisenstadt v. Baird | 405 U.S. 438 (1972) | privacy, birth control |
| Sierra Club v. Morton | 405 U.S. 727 (1972) | standing in cases in which plaintiffs assert interest in aesthetic or recreational interest in property (in this case, Mineral King area) |
| Wisconsin v. Yoder | 406 U.S. 205 (1972) | freedom of religion, high school education |
| The Bremen v. Zapata Off-Shore Company | 407 U.S. 1 (1972) | enforceability of a forum selection clause |
| Fuentes v. Shevin | 407 U.S. 67 (1972) | Opportunity to be heard |
| Flood v. Kuhn | 407 U.S. 258 (1972) | baseball and antitrust regulation |
| United States v. U.S. District Court | 407 U.S. 297 (1972) | Fourth Amendment, Search and seizure, Search warrant, Wiretapping |
| Barker v. Wingo | 407 U.S. 514 (1972) | Sixth Amendment and speedy trial |
| Lloyd Corp. v. Tanner | 407 U.S. 551 (1972) | First Amendment; private property; rights |
| Furman v. Georgia | 408 U.S. 238 (1972) | death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment; overruled by Gregg v. Georgia |
| Board of Regents v. Roth | 408 U.S. 564 (1972) | procedural due process in firing non-tenured professor |
| Perry v. Sindermann | 408 U.S. 593 (1972) | First Amendment; de facto professor tenure |
| Gravel v. United States | 408 U.S. 606 (1972) | protection offered by the Speech or Debate Clause to non-legislative activity |
| Branzburg v. Hayes | 408 U.S. 665 (1972) | First Amendment; grand jury, journalists’ rights |
| Bronston v. United States | 409 U.S. 352 (1973) | Literally truthful statements under oath cannot be prosecuted as perjury even if intent was to mislead questioner |
| United States v. Dionisio | 410 U.S. 1 (1973) | handwriting |
| United States v. Mara aka Marasovich | 410 U.S. 19 (1973) | handwriting |
| Roe v. Wade | 410 U.S. 113 (1973) | abortion, due process, privacy |
| Doe v. Bolton | 410 U.S. 179 (1973) | restrictions on abortion |
| United States v. Florida East Coast Railway Co. | 410 U.S. 224 (1973) | due process right to a hearing when administrative rules are to be changed |
| San Antonio Independent School Dist. v. Rodriguez | 411 U.S. 1 (1973) | equal protection, education |
| United States v. Russell | 411 U.S. 423 (1973) | Active government agent involvement in criminal conspiracy does not constitute entrapment; Rehnquist inadvertently creates possible "outrageous government conduct" standard. |
| Frontiero v. Richardson | 411 U.S. 677 (1973) | equal protection, gender discrimination in military dependency regulation |
| McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green | 411 U.S. 793 (1973) | standard of proof in employment discrimination cases |
| Schneckloth v. Bustamonte | 412 U.S. 218 (1973) | Voluntary searches are permissible without the knowledge to refuse them |
| United States v. Students Challenging Regulatory Agency Procedures (SCRAP) | 412 U.S. 669 (1973) | standing to sue |
| Miller v. California | 413 U.S. 15 (1973) | freedom of speech, Miller test for obscenity |
| Lau v. Nichols | 414 U.S. 563 (1974) | foreign-language education and discrimination under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
| Cleveland Board of Education v. LaFleur | 414 U.S. 632 (1974) | Overly restrictive maternity leave regulations in public schools violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. |
| United States v. Matlock | 415 U.S. 164 (1974) | Fourth Amendment, Search and seizure, "co-occupant consent rule" |
| Edelman v. Jordan | 415 U.S. 651 (1974) | Eleventh Amendment and disability payments |
| Storer v. Brown | 415 U.S. 724 (1974) | political campaign laws |
| Village of Belle Terre v. Boraas | 416 U.S. 1 (1974) | upholding a zoning ordinance which prevented multiple unrelated people from living together |
| DeFunis v. Odegaard | 416 U.S. 312 (1974) | mootness |
| Commissioner v. Idaho Power Co. | 418 U.S. 1 (1974) | Income tax, capitalization of costs related to acquisition of capital assets |
| Jenkins v. Georgia | 418 U.S. 153 (1974) | obscenity; motion picture Carnal Knowledge |
| Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo | 418 U.S. 241 (1974) | freedom of speech |
| Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. | 418 U.S. 323 (1974) | First Amendment and defamation--narrowing New York Times v. Sullivan |
| United States v. Nixon | 418 U.S. 683 (1974) | judicial review, executive privilege, separation of powers |
| Milliken v. Bradley | 418 U.S. 717 (1974) | segregation, busing |
| Goss v. Lopez | 419 U.S. 565 (1974) | Due process in suspending a student from school |
| NLRB v. J. Weingarten, Inc. | 420 U.S. 251 (1975) | The Weingarten rights--rights of union members facing disciplinary proceedings |
| Schlesinger v. Councilman | 420 U.S. 738 (1975) | scope and jurisdiction of courts martial |
| Bigelow v. Virginia | 421 U.S. 809 (1975) | First Amendment and commercial speech |
| Cort v. Ash | 422 U.S. 66 (1975) | election law, implied cause of action |
| Warth v. Seldin | 422 U.S. 490 (1975) | law of standing |
| O'Connor v. Donaldson | 422 U.S. 563 (1975) | institutionalization of a non-dangerous mentally ill person |
| Rose v. Locke | 423 U.S. 48 (1975) | vagueness of a law against cunnilingus |
| Buckley v. Valeo | 424 U.S. 1 (1976) | First Amendment and campaign finance reform |
| Mathews v. Eldridge | 424 U.S. 319 (1976) | procedural due process for termination of Social Security benefits |
| Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States | 424 U.S. 800 (1976) | Abstention doctrine |
| Hills v. Gautreaux | 425 U.S. 284 (1976) | Fifth Amendment and Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
| Time, Inc. v. Firestone | 424 U.S. 448 (1976) | rights of the media and public figures in defamation suits |
| Estelle v. Williams | 425 U.S. 501 (1976) | trying a criminal defendant while he is clad in prison garb violates due process |
| Virginia State Pharmacy Board v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council | 425 U.S. 748 (1976) | commercial speech--advertising prescription drug prices |
| Washington v. Davis | 426 U.S. 229 (1976) | equal protection |
| TSC Industries, Inc. v. Northway, Inc. | 426 U.S. 438 (1976) | materiality of false or misleading statements in proxy statements under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 |
| Doyle v. Ohio | 426 U.S. 610 (1976) | impeaching a defendant with his silence in response to the warnings required by Miranda v. Arizona violates the Fifth Amendment |
| Serbian Orthodox Diocese v. Milivojevich | 426 U.S. 696 (1976) | judicial determination of internal disputes of church governance violates the Establishment Clause |
| National League of Cities v. Usery | 426 U.S. 833 (1976) | Tenth amendment sufficient to invalidate federal Fair Labor Standards Act; overruled by Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority |
| Runyon v. McCrary | 427 U.S. 160 (1976) | race discrimination in private school admissions under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 |
| Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer | 427 U.S. 445 (1976) | limitations imposed by the Eleventh Amendment on damages paid by states under Title VII |
| Nebraska Press Association v. Stuart | 427 U.S. 529 (1976) | standards for regulating publicity in advance of a criminal trial |
| Planned Parenthood of Central Missouri v. Danforth | 428 U.S. 52 (1976) | constitutionality of various abortion regulations; the first such challenge after Roe v. Wade |
| Gregg v. Georgia | 428 U.S. 153 (1976) | capital punishment does not per se violate the Eighth Amendment |
| Woodson v. North Carolina | 428 U.S. 280 (1976) | mandatory death penalties and capital punishment |
| South Dakota v. Opperman | 428 U.S. 364 (1976) | searching an impounded vehicle is permissible under the Fourth Amendment |
| United States v. Janis | 428 U.S. 433 (1976) | the exclusionary rule does not apply in civil forfeiture proceedings |
| Stone v. Powell | 428 U.S. 465 (1976) | violations of the exclusionary rule may not be asserted in federal habeas corpus proceedings |
| United States v. Martinez-Fuerte | 428 U.S. 543 (1976) | routine stops of vehicles entering the United States made by the Border Patrol do not violate the Fourth Amendment |
| Estelle v. Gamble | 429 U.S. 97 (1976) | deliberate indifference to prisoner medical needs is required to make out a violation of the Eighth Amendment |
| Craig v. Boren | 429 U.S. 190 (1976) | sex discrimination in drinking ages |
| Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Corp. | 429 U.S. 252 (1977) | discriminatory intent required to make out a violation of the Equal Protection Clause |
| Mount Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle | 429 U.S. 274 (1977) | retaliatory adverse employment action that rises to the level of a constitutional violation and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 |
| Califano v. Goldfarb | 430 U.S. 199 (1977) | differing Social Security benefits for widows and widowers violates equal protection |
| Complete Auto Transit, Inc. v. Brady | 430 U.S. 274 (1977) | constitutional requirements for imposing state business privilege taxes on out-of-state corporations |
| Brewer v. Williams | 430 U.S. 387 (1977) | Sixth Amendment requires criminal defendants to have counsel during police interrogation conducted after indictment |
| Ingraham v. Wright | 430 U.S. 651 (1977) | corporal punishment of public school students |
| Bounds v. Smith | 430 U.S. 817 (1977) | the right of prisoners to access the courts requires prisons to furnish legal assistance |
| Abood v. Detroit Board of Education | 431 U.S. 209 (1977) | compelling nonunion members to support union political activities violates the First Amendment |
| Moore v. City of East Cleveland | 431 U.S. 494 (1977) | zoning ordinances forbidding extended families to live in the same house violate due process |
| Carey v. Population Services International | 431 U.S. 678 (1977) | availability of contraceptives to girls under the age of 16 |
| National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie | 432 U.S. 43 (1977) | procedure to be afforded those denied the right to march |
| Hunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising Commission | 432 U.S. 333 (1977) | Dormant Commerce Clause |
| Beal v. Doe | 432 U.S. 438 (1977) | right of a state to restrict use of federal funds for abortion |
| Shaffer v. Heitner | 433 U.S. 186 (1977) | quasi in rem jurisdiction and minimum contacts |
| Bates v. State Bar of Arizona | 433 U.S. 350 (1977) | First Amendment constraints on advertising by lawyers |
| Nixon v. Administrator of General Services | 433 U.S. 425 (1977) | papers of President Nixon |
| Zacchini v. Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Co. | 433 U.S. 562 (1977) | First Amendment limitations on suits for invasion of privacy |
| Coker v. Georgia | 433 U.S. 584 (1977) | death penalty for rape unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment |
| Pennsylvania v. Mimms | 434 U.S. 106 (1977) | applying Terry v. Ohio to passengers in an automobile |
| Moore v. Illinois | 434 U.S. 220 (1977) | Sixth Amendment requires a criminal defendant to counsel at a lineup conducted after being indicted |
| Browder v. Director, Department of Corrections | 434 U.S. 257 (1978) | federal courts of appeals lack jurisdiction to hear untimely filed appeals |
| Pfizer, Inc. v. Government of India | 434 U.S. 308 (1978) | foreign nations, who may sue in federal court, may also obtain triple damages for violations of the Clayton Act |
| Bordenkircher v. Hayes | 434 U.S. 357 (1978) | prosecutors may threaten defendants with more serious charges in order to induce a guilty plea |
| Zablocki v. Redhail | 434 U.S. 374 (1978) | marriage as a fundamental right |
| Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe | 435 U.S. 191 (1978) | Indian tribal courts do not have inherent criminal jurisdiction to try and to punish non-Indians |
| Ballew v. Georgia | 435 U.S. 223 (1978) | juries in criminal trials may not have fewer than six members |
| Lakeside v. Oregon | 435 U.S. 333 (1978) | Jury instructions regarding the right against self incrimination and refusal to testify |
| Stump v. Sparkman | 435 U.S. 349 (1978) | judicial immunity |
| Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. | 435 U.S. 519 (1978) | judicial deference to government agencies |
| Frank Lyon Co. v. United States | 435 U.S. 561 (1978) | ownership of realty in sale-leaseback for tax deduction for depreciation purposes. |
| McDaniel v. Paty | 435 U.S. 618 (1978) | qualification of ministers to hold political office |
| Elkins v. Moreno | 435 U.S. 647 (1978) | in-state tuition at state universities for non-citizen students |
| First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti | 435 U.S. 765 (1978) | First Amendment and corporate political contributions |
| Landmark Communications, Inc. v. Virginia | 435 U.S. 829 (1978) | press freedom in judicial discipline proceedings |
| Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez | 436 U.S. 49 (1978) | sovereign immunity of Indian tribes |
| Flagg Bros., Inc. v. Brooks | 436 U.S. 149 (1978) | upholding section of New York Uniform Commercial Code permitting repossession of goods by warehouse |
| Ohralik v. Ohio State Bar Association | 436 U.S. 447 (1978) | state regulation of in-person soliciation of clients by lawyers |
| Taylor v. Kentucky | 436 U.S. 378 (1978) | instrucing the jury in a criminal trial on the presumption of innocence and the meaning of proof beyond a reasonable doubt |
| Zurcher v. Stanford Daily | 436 U.S. 547 (1978) | standards for issuing search warrants to third parties; special First Amendment protections for the press in keeping evidence of possible crimes |
| Monell v. Department of Social Services | 436 U.S. 658 (1978) | liability of municipal officials for violations of constitutional rights; they are not liable for merely employing the person who violated the person's rights, and do not enjoy absolute immunity for their actions |
| Exxon Corp. v. Governor of Maryland | 437 U.S. 117 (1978) | Dormant Commerce Clause and state petroleum regulation |
| Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill | 437 U.S. 153 (1978) | interpretation of the Endangered Species Act |
| Owen Equipment & Erection Co. v. Kroger | 437 U.S. 365 (1978) | joinder and diversity jurisdiction |
| Mincey v. Arizona | 437 U.S. 385 (1978) | Fourth Amendment does not provide a "murder scene exception" to the warrant-and-probable-cause requirement |
| Parker v. Flook | 437 U.S. 584 (1978) | Algorithms and patent law |
| City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey | 437 U.S. 617 (1978) | Dormant Commerce Clause prohibits banning importation of trash into a state |
| Duke Power Co. v. Carolina Environmental Study Group | 438 U.S. 59 (1978) | constitutionality of Price-Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act |
| Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City | 438 U.S. 104 (1978) | substantive due process, taking clause, landmarks preservation |
| Franks v. Delaware | 438 U.S. 154 (1978) | challenging false statements made in support of issuing a search warrant |
| Regents of the University of California v. Bakke | 438 U.S. 265 (1978) | racial discrimination, affirmative action |
| Lockett v. Ohio | 438 U.S. 586 (1978) | mitigating evidence required by the Eighth Amendment in capital sentencing proceedings |
| FCC v. Pacifica Foundation | 438 U.S. 726 (1978) | obscenity, FCC policing of obscenity |
| Rakas v. Illinois | 439 U.S. 128 (1978) | asserting the Fourth Amendment rights of third persons |
| Parklane Hosiery Co, Inc. v. Shore | 439 U.S. 322 (1979) | preclusion doctrine |
| Hisquierdo v. Hisquierdo | 439 U.S. 572 (1979) | dividing federal railroad retirement benefits under state community property laws |
| Scott v. Illinois | 440 U.S. 367 (1979) | Sixth Amendment right to counsel applies only to crimes for which the actual penalty is imprisonment |
| Nevada v. Hill | 440 U.S. 410 (1979) | states are not immune from suit in the courts of other states |
| National Labor Relations Board v. Catholic Bishop of Chicago | 440 U.S. 490 (1979) | the National Labor Relations Act does not extend to teachers employed by church-operated schools |
| New York City Transit Authority v. Beazer | 440 U.S. 568 (1979) | Civil Rights Act of 1964 and legality of discrimination against methadone users |
| Delaware v. Prouse | 440 U.S. 648 (1979) | Fourth Amendment forbids stopping a motorist to check for a driver's license in the absence of reasonable suspicion to believe the driver has violated a traffic law |
| United States v. Caceres | 440 U.S. 741 (1979) | Fourth Amendment does not require exclusion of evidence seized in violation of governmental regulation |
| Burch v. Louisiana | 441 U.S. 130 (1979) | at a criminal trial, a six-member trial must be unanimous |
| Addington v. Texas | 441 U.S. 418 (1979) | involuntarily committing a person to a mental hospital requires a clear and convincing standard of proof |
| United States v. 564.54 Acres of Land | 441 U.S. 506 (1979) | Takings Clause only requires payment of fair market value to landowner |
| Bell v. Wolfish | 441 U.S. 520 (1979) | rights of accused persons being held in prison pending trial. |
| Cannon v. University of Chicago | 441 U.S. 677 (1979) | gender discrimination, implied cause of action |
| Greenholtz v. Inmates of the Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex | 442 U.S. 1 (1979) | due process liberty interest in parole |
| Personnel Administrator v. Feeney | 442 U.S. 256 (1979) | government employment preferences for veterans do not constitute sex discrimination |
| Sandstrom v. Montana | 442 U.S. 510 (1979) | instructing the jury on the burden of proof in criminal trials |
| Califano v. Yamasaki | 442 U.S. 682 (1979) | procedural due process and the Social Security Act |
| Fare v. Michael C. | 442 U.S. 707 (1979) | invocation of the Miranda rights by asking for a probation officer |
| Smith v. Maryland | 442 U.S. 735 (1979) | leaves call detail records outside the protection of the Fourth Amendment. |
| United Steel Workers of America v. Weber | 443 U.S. 193 (1979) | regarding affirmative action, reverse discrimination |
| Gannett Co. v. DePasquale | 443 U.S. 368 (1979) | standing of the press to assert violations of the right to a public trial |
| Bellotti v. Baird | 443 U.S. 622 (1979) | parental notification requirements for abortion are constitutional with a judicial bypass provision |
| Ybarra v. Illinois | 444 U.S. 85 (1979) | a person's mere presence at a place for which the police have a warrant to search does not allow the police to search that person |
| Goldwater v. Carter | 444 U.S. 996 (1979) | justiciability, political question doctrine |
| World-Wide Volkswagen Corp v. Woodson | 444 U.S. 286 (1980) | Personal jurisdiction, strict liability |
| Village of Schaumburg v. Citizens for a Better Environment | 444 U.S. 620 (1980) | First Amendment protection for door-to-door soliciting |
| Trammel v. United States | 445 U.S. 40 (1980) | marital privilege under the Federal Rules of Evidence |
| Rummel v. Estelle | 445 U.S. 263 (1980) | life in prison with possibility of parole is not cruel and unusual punishment for a habitual offender convicted of passing bad checks |
| Vitek v. Jones | 445 U.S. 380 (1980) | due process liberty interest in forcible commitment to a mental hospital |
| Payton v. New York | 445 U.S. 573 (1980) | Fourth Amendment prohibits warrantless entry into a home to effect a routine felony arrest |
| Mobile v. Bolden | 446 U.S. 55 (1980) | At-Large voting system and the Fifteenth Amendment |
| Rhode Island v. Innis | 446 U.S. 291 (1980) | meaning of "interrogation" under Miranda v. Arizona |
| Cuyler v. Sullivan | 446 U.S. 335 (1980) | criminal defendant's right to counsel not saddled by a conflict of interest |
| Godfrey v. Georgia | 446 U.S. 420 (1980) | Eighth Amendment overbreadth of an aggravating circumstance required for imposing the death penalty |
| United States v. Mendenhall | 446 U.S. 544 (1980) | police may obtain consent to detain a person and search them under the Fourth Amendment |
| Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins | 447 U.S. 74 (1980) | federalism, freedom of speech |
| Diamond v. Chakrabarty | 447 U.S. 303 (1980) | patentability of genetically modified organisms |
| Consolidated Edison Co. v. Public Service Commission | 447 U.S. 530 (1980) | freedom of speech (companies including information inserts with bills) |
| Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. v. Public Service Commission | 447 U.S. 557 (1980) | commercial speech--energy company advertising |
| Beck v. Alabama | 447 U.S. 625 (1980) | lesser-included instructions in capital murder cases |
| United States v. Raddatz | 447 U.S. 667 (1980) | federal district court review of determinations by federal magistrate judges |
| Maine v. Thiboutot | 448 U.S. 1 (1980) | 42 U.S.C. § 1983 allows suits for violations of federal statutory law |
| Adams v. Texas | 448 U.S. 38 (1980) | juror oaths regarding factual deliberations in capital cases |
| Ohio v. Roberts | 448 U.S. 56 (1980) | hearsay is admissible under the Sixth Amendment if it bears particular guarantees of trustworthiness; overruled by Crawford v. Washington |
| Harris v. McRae | 448 U.S. 297 (1980) | states are not required to fund abortions |
| United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians | 448 U.S. 371 (1980) | seizure of Native American lands |
| Fullilove v. Klutznick | 448 U.S. 448 (1980) | Equal protection, government contract set-aside for minority owned businesses |
| Upjohn Co. v. United States | 449 U.S. 383 (1981) | attorney-client privilege |
| Minnesota v. Clover Leaf Creamery Co. | 449 U.S. 456 (1981) | ban on nonreturnable milk containers under the rational basis test of equal protection law |
| Fedorenko v. United States | 449 U.S. 490 (1981) | revoking the citizenship of a naturalized former concentration camp guard |
| Diamond, Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks v. Diehr et. al. | 450 U.S. 175 (1981) | patentability of machines controlled by computer software |
| Michael M. v. Superior Court of Sonoma County | 450 U.S. 464 (1981) | sex discrimination in statutory rape laws |
| Kassel v. Consolidated Freightways Corp. | 450 U.S. 662 (1981) | Dormant Commerce Clause |
| Thomas v. Review Board | 450 U.S. 707 (1981) | religious pacifism and unemployment benefits under the Free Exercise Clause |
| Estelle v. Smith | 451 U.S. 454 (1981) | statements taken in violation of the Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights to counsel may not be admitted at a capital sentencing proceeding |
| Edwards v. Arizona | 451 U.S. 477 (1981) | police may not initiate questioning once a suspect has invoked his rights under Miranda v. Arizona |
| Parratt v. Taylor | 451 U.S. 527 (1981) | mere negligence does not state a claim for a due process violation under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 |
| Lassiter v. Department of Social Services | 452 U.S. 18 (1981) | right to counsel in parental termination proceedings |
| Connecticut Board of Pardons v. Dumschat | 452 U.S. 458 (1981) | due process right to commutation of life sentences |
| Rostker v. Goldberg | 453 U.S. 57 (1981) | Equal Protection Clause, women exempt from Selective Service registration |
| City of Newport v. Fact Concerts, Inc. | 453 U.S. 247 (1981) | punitive damages against municipalities in suits under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 |
| California v. Prysock | 453 U.S. 355 (1981) | phrasing of the warnings required by Miranda v. Arizona |
| New York v. Belton | 453 U.S. 454 (1981) | scope of a lawful search incident to the arrest of a passenger in an automobile includes things inside the passenger compartment |
| Metromedia, Inc. v. City of San Diego | 453 U.S. 490 (1981) | municipal regulation of billboards under the First Amendment |
| Dames & Moore v. Regan | 453 U.S. 654 (1981) | executive authority over foreign affairs, International Emergency Economic Powers Act |
| Piper Aircraft Co. v. Reyno | 454 U.S. 235 (1981) | forum non conveniens doctrine |
| Widmar v. Vincent | 454 U.S. 263 (1981) | use of state university classroom space by religious student groups |
| Polk County v. Dodson | 454 U.S. 312 (1981) | liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violations of constitutional rights allegedly committed by public defenders |
| Cabell v. Chavez-Salido | 454 U.S. 432 (1982) | citizenship requirements for probation officers |
| Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State | 454 U.S. 464 (1982) | standing to sue for alleged violations of the Establishment Clause |
| Eddings v. Oklahoma | 455 U.S. 104 (1982) | scope of mitigation evidence presented at a sentencing hearing in a capital case required by the Eighth Amendment |
| United States v. Lee | 455 U.S. 252 (1982) | religious opposition to participation in Social Security |
| Rose v. Lundy | 455 U.S. 509 (1982) | exhaustion requirement in federal habeas proceedings |
| Santosky v. Kramer | 455 U.S. 745 (1982) | standard of proof in parental termination proceedings must be at least clear and convincing evidence |
| Oregon v. Kennedy | 456 U.S. 667 (1982) | double jeopardy protections for retrial after a mistrial is granted |
| United States v. Ross | 456 U.S. 798 (1982) | acceptable scope of a warrantless search of an automobile that has been legitimately stopped and that the police have probable cause to believe contains contraband |
| Plyler v. Doe | 457 U.S. 202 (1982) | illegal immigrants and public education |
| Youngberg v. Romeo | 457 U.S. 307 (1982) | rights of the involuntarily committed and mentally retarded |
| Nixon v. Fitzgerald | 457 U.S. 731 (1982) | qualified immunity of executive branch officials |
| Harlow v. Fitzgerald | 457 U.S. 800 (1982) | absolute immunity for executive branch officials |
| Board of Education, Island Trees School District v. Pico | 457 U.S. 853 (1982) | right to remove "objectionable" books from school libraries |
| Northern Pipeline Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. | 458 U.S. 50 (1982) | Article III of the U.S. Constitution and the Bankruptcy Code |
| Loretto v. Teleprompter Manhattan CATV Corp. | 458 U.S. 419 (1982) | per se rule of takings clause |
| Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan | 458 U.S. 718 (1982) | single-sex nursing schools and the Equal Protection Clause |
| New York v. Ferber | 458 U.S. 747 (1982) | States may ban sexual images of minors even where material does not meet existing tests of obscenity |
| Enmund v. Florida | 458 U.S. 782 (1982) | felony murder and the death penalty |
| United States v. Valenzuela-Bernal | 458 U.S. 858 (1982) | constitutionality of deporting aliens who might give testimony in criminal alien smuggling prosecutions |
| NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co. | 458 U.S. 886 (1982) | First Amendment protection for boycotts |
| Larkin v. Grendel's Den, Inc. | 459 U.S. 116 (1982) | allowing churches to veto nearby liquor licenses violates the Establishment Clause |
| Hewitt v. Helms | 459 U.S. 460 (1983) | procedural due process protections for prisoners transferred to administrative segregation |
| South Dakota v. Neville | 459 U.S. 553 (1983) | admitting evidence of refusal to submit to field sobriety tests does not violate the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination |
| District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman | 460 U.S. 462 (1983) | review of state court decisions by U.S. District Courts |
| Florida v. Royer | 460 U.S. 491 (1983) | search and seizure of an airline passenger walking through an airport |
| Metropolitan Edison Co. v. People Against Nuclear Energy | 460 U.S. 766 (1983) | environmental law; psychological effects do not need to be evaluated as part of an Environmental Impact Report |
| Minneapolis Star Tribune Company v. Commissioner | 460 U.S. 575 (1983) | Special taxes on ink and paper violate the First Amendment |
| Anderson v. Celebrezze | 460 U.S. 780 (1983) | Filing deadlines for independent candidates may not be extraordinarily early. |
| Connick v. Myers | 461 U.S. 138 (1983) | free speech rights of public employees |
| Pacific Gas & Electric v. State Energy Resources Conservation of Development Commission | 461 U.S. 190 (1983) | Preemption, Nuclear Power |
| Kolender v. Lawson | 461 U.S. 352 (1983) | requiring loiterers or wanderers on the streets to present identification and to account for their presence when requested by a police officer is unconstitutional |
| Regan v. Taxation with Representation of Washington | 461 U.S. 540 (1983) | restricting 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations from engaging in political activity does not violate the First Amendment |
| Bob Jones University v. United States | 461 U.S. 574 (1983) | freedom of religion and tax exemptions |
| Illinois v. Gates | 462 U.S. 213 (1983) | validity of searches conducted pursuant to warrants predicated on an informant's tip |
| City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health | 462 U.S. 416 (1983) | requiring abortions to be performed in a hospital, restricting abortion to girls over 16, and requiring a doctor to impart certain information before performing an abortion are all unconstitutional |
| United States v. Place | 462 U.S. 696 (1983) | dog sniff is not a search under the Fourth Amendment |
| INS v. Chadha | 462 U.S. 919 (1983) | unconstitutionality of the legislative veto |
| Oregon v. Bradshaw | 462 U.S. 1039 (1983) | protections of Miranda v. Arizona when the suspect reinitiates conversation with the police |
| Bolger v. Youngs Drug Products Corp. | 463 U.S. 60 (1983) | First Amendment, definition of commercial speech |
| Solem v. Helm | 463 U.S. 277 (1983) | life without parole for passing bad checks is cruel and unusual punishment |
| Dirks v. Securities & Exchange Commission | 463 U.S. 646 (1983) | Insider trading, interpretation of Rule 10b-5 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 |
| Marsh v. Chambers | 463 U.S. 783 (1983) | Establishment Clause does not forbid state legislatures from employing chaplains |
| Barefoot v. Estelle | 463 U.S. 880 (1983) | admissibility of psychiatrist's testimony about a criminal's future dangerousness |
| Michigan v. Long | 463 U.S. 1032 (1983) | “adequate and independent state ground” |
| Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios | 464 U.S. 417 (1984) | copyright, VCR "time-shifting", fair use |
| Grove City College v. Bell | 465 U.S. 555 (1984) | acquiescence to federal anti-discrimination regulations through acceptance of federal funds |
| Lynch v. Donnelly | 465 U.S. 668 (1984) | public religious display on private property |
| Calder v. Jones | 465 U.S. 783 (1984) | minimum contacts for personal jurisdiction based on a libelous publication |
| United Building & Construction Trades Council v. Mayor and Council of Camden | 465 U.S. 208 (1984) | Privileges and Immunities clause |
| Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Delgado | 466 U.S. 210 (1984) | Fourth Amendment requirements for administrative searches |
| Helicopteros Nacionales de Colombia, S. A. v. Hall | 466 U.S. 408 (1984) | Purchases in the United States by a non-resident corporation are insufficient under the minimum contacts test to establish in personam jurisdiction |
| Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. | 466 U.S. 485 (1984) | appellate courts may make finding of "actual malice" required for libel claims against public figures by the First Amendment |
| Strickland v. Washington | 466 U.S. 668 (1984) | standard for ineffective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment |
| Members of the City Council of the City of Los Angeles v. Taxpayers for Vincent | 466 U.S. 789 (1984) | First Amendment regulation of posting of campaign signs |
| Waller v. Georgia | 467 U.S. 39 (1984) | Sixth Amendment right to a public trial |
| South-Central Timber Development, Inc. v. Wunnicke | 467 U.S. 82 (1984) | market participant exception to the Dormant Commerce Clause |
| United States v. Gouveia | 467 U.S. 180 (1984) | right to counsel for prisoners under administrative segregation |
| Bernal v. Fainter | 467 U.S. 216 (1984) | citizenship of notaries public |
| Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff | 467 U.S. 229 (1984) | land use law, takings to redistribute private property |
| Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Stevic | 467 U.S. 407 (1984) | aliens must establish a clear probability of persecution to avoid deportation |
| California v. Trombetta | 467 U.S. 479 (1984) | preservation of breath samples in DUI cases not required under the Due Process Clause |
| New York v. Quarles | 467 U.S. 649 (1984) | Miranda rights |
| Chevron U.S.A. v. Natural Resources Defense Council | 467 U.S. 837 (1984) | judicial review of the interpretation of statutes by government agencies |
| FCC v. League of Women Voters of California | 468 U.S. 364 (1984) | revert regulation on "editorializing" by government funded broadcasters |
| Brown v. Hotel and Restaurant Employees | 468 U.S. 491 (1984) | New Jersey Casino Control Act was not preempted by the National Labor Relations Act |
| Roberts v. United States Jaycees | 468 U.S. 609 (1984) | First Amendment freedom of association and excluding women as members of a private club |
| Regan v. Time, Inc. | 468 U.S. 641 (1984) | artistic depictions of United States currency |
| Allen v. Wright | 468 U.S. 737 (1984) | standing to sue for executive action alleged to promote racial discrimination by third parties |
| United States v. Leon | 468 U.S. 897 (1984) | search and seizure, "good faith" exception to exclusionary rule |
| Mills Music, Inc v. Snyder | 469 U.S. 153 (1985) | assignment of royalties under the Copyright Act |
| New Jersey v. T. L. O. | 469 U.S. 325 (1985) | search & seizure at a public high school |
| Evitts v. Lucey | 469 U.S. 387 (1985) | effective assistance of counsel in appeals in criminal cases |
| Wainwright v. Witt | 469 U.S. 412 (1985) | selection of jurors in death penalty cases |
| Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority | 469 U.S. 528 (1985) | application of minimum wage laws to state governments |
| Ake v. Oklahoma | 470 U.S. 68 (1985) | right of the accused asserting insanity to a state-appointed psychiatrist |
| Supreme Court of New Hampshire v. Piper | 470 U.S. 274 (1985) | residency requirements for membership in the state bar |
| Oregon v. Elstad | 470 U.S. 298 (1985) | applying the exclusionary rule to violations of the Miranda rights |
| Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill | 470 U.S. 532 (1985) | due process right of public employees to be heard before termination |
| Heckler v. Chaney | 470 U.S. 821 (1985) | forcing the Food and Drug Administration to determine whether it is legal to use certain drugs for lethal injection |
| Tennessee v. Garner | 471 U.S. 1 (1985) | Restriction on the use of deadly force as part of the Fleeing felon rule. |
| Burger King v. Rudzewicz | 471 U.S. 462 (1985) | personal jurisdiction, "purposeful availment" |
| Harper & Row v. Nation Enterprises | 471 U.S. 539 (1985) | fair use of copyrighted material |
| Landreth Timber Co. v. Landreth | 471 U.S. 681 (1985) | The Securities Act of 1933 and the "sale of business" doctrine |
| Wallace v. Jaffree | 472 U.S. 38 (1985) | school sponsorship of voluntary religious observances |
| Superintendent, Mass. Correctional Institute at Walpole v. Hill | 472 U.S. 445 (1985) | prison disciplinary decisions to revoke good-time credits must be supported by "some evidence" |
| Brockett v. Spokane Arcades, Inc. | 472 U.S. 491 (1985) | regulation of adult bookstores |
| Mitchell v. Forsyth | 472 U.S. 511 (1985) | civil liability for conducting warrantless wiretaps |
| Aspen Skiing Co. v. Aspen Highlands Skiing Corp. | 472 U.S. 585 (1985) | antitrust and alteration of marketing cooperation agreement |
| Thornton v. Caldor | 472 U.S. 703 (1985) | constitutionality of Sabbath laws |
| Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. v. Greenmoss Builders | 472 U.S. 749 (1985) | First Amendment, libel in credit reporting |
| Dowling v. United States | 473 U.S. 207 (1985) | copyright infringement as theft |
| Aguilar v. Felton | 473 U.S. 402 (1985) | using federal funds to pay teachers in parochial schools under the Establishment Clause |
| City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center, Inc. | 473 U.S. 432 (1985) | equal protection for the mentally disabled |
| United States v. Montoya de Hernandez | 473 U.S. 531 (1985) | constitutionality of body cavity searches at the border under the Fourth Amendment |
| Thomas v. Union Carbide Agricultural Products Co. | 473 U.S. 568 (1985) | Article III and the arbitration provisions of FIFRA |
| United States v. Bagley | 473 U.S. 667 (1985) | prosecutors must disclose information useful for impeaching government witnesses under Brady v. Maryland |
| Witters v. Washington Department of Services For the Blind | 474 U.S. 481 (1985) | constitutionality of public aid paid directly to students of Christian colleges |
| Vasquez v. Hillery | 474 U.S. 254 (1986) | race discrimination in selecting grand juries |
| Cabana v. Bullock | 474 U.S. 376 (1986) | appellate courts may make the finding required by Enmund v. Florida in the first instance |
| Nix v. Whiteside | 475 U.S. 157 (1986) | presentation of perjured testimony at a criminal trial; Sixth Amendment right to counsel |
| Fisher v. City of Berkeley | 475 U.S. 260 (1986) | rent control ordinances and the Sherman Antitrust Act |
| Goldman v. Weinberger | 475 U.S. 503 (1986) | religious headwear for military personnel under the Establishment Clause |
| Michigan v. Jackson | 475 U.S. 625 (1986) | suspect confessions and the Sixth Amendment right to counsel |
| Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. v. Hepps | 475 U.S. 767 (1986) | First Amendment constraints on libel actions; private-figure plaintiffs must show falsity of statements |
| Batson v. Kentucky | 476 U.S. 79 (1986) | peremptory challenge, racial discrimination |
| Poland v. Arizona | 476 U.S. 147 (1986) | reimposing the death penalty after the underlying murder conviction has been vacated |
| Dow Chemical Co. v. United States | 476 U.S. 227 (1986) | aerial photography and the Fourth Amendment |
| Brown-Forman Distillers Corp. v. New York State Liquor Authority | 476 U.S. 573 (1986) | price controls on alcoholic beverages and the Commerce Clause |
| Bowen v. Roy | 476 U.S. 693 (1986) | freedom of religion and Social Security numbers |
| Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists | 476 U.S. 747 (1986) | requiring "informed consent" before an abortion |
| Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson | 477 U.S. 57 (1986) | "hostile work environment" as sexual harassment |
| McMillan v. Pennsylvania | 477 U.S. 79 (1986) | mandatory minimum sentences are not elements of crimes subject to proof beyond a reasonable doubt |
| Maine v. Taylor | 477 U.S. 131 (1986) | exception to Dormant Commerce Clause |
| Celotex Corp. v. Catrett | 477 U.S. 317 (1986) | standard for summary judgment |
| Ford v. Wainwright | 477 U.S. 399 (1986) | competence to be executed |
| Press-Enterprise Co. v. Superior Court | 478 U.S. 1 (1986) | First Amendment free press guarantee and the right to a transcript of a preliminary hearing |
| Bowers v. Hardwick | 478 U.S. 186 (1986) | sodomy and substantive due process; overruled by Lawrence v. Texas (2003) |
| Allen v. Illinois | 478 U.S. 364 (1986) | statements made in civil commitment proceedings for sex offenders are not subject to the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination |
| Bethel School District v. Fraser | 478 U.S. 675 (1986) | censorship of obscene speech at a school assembly |
| Bowsher v. Synar | 478 U.S. 714 (1986) | Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act, office of Comptroller General, separation of powers |
| Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Thompson | 478 U.S. 804 (1986) | Federal courts cannot claim original jurisdiction for violation of a statute which does not provide a private cause of action |
| Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Schor | 478 U.S. 833 (1986) | Jurisdiction of Article I and Article III tribunals, waiver of Article III jurisdiction |
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