| Case name |
Citation |
Summary |
|---|
| Bailey v. Alabama |
211 U.S. 452 (1911) |
peonage laws and the Thirteenth Amendment |
| Weems v. United States |
217 U.S. 349 (1910) |
cruel and unusual punishment |
| Bailey v. Alabama |
219 U.S. 219 (1911) |
Advisory opinion overturned peonage laws |
| Muskrat v. United States |
219 U.S. 346 (1911) |
Advisory opinion doctrine |
| Flint v. Stone Tracy Co. |
220 U.S. 107 (1911) |
constitutionality of corporate income tax |
| United States v. Grimaud |
220 U.S. 506 (1911) |
control of forest reserves |
| Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States |
221 U.S. 1 (1910) |
dissolving interstate monopolies |
| Dowdell v. United States |
221 U.S. 325 (1911) |
sometimes considered one of the Insular Cases |
| Gompers v. Buck's Stove and Range Co. |
221 U.S. 418 (1911) |
contempt for violating an injunction against a worker's boycott |
| Hoke v. United States |
227 U.S. 308 (1913) |
upheld the Mann Act, but held that Congress could not regulate prostitution |
| Bauer & Cie. v. O'Donnell |
229 U.S. 1 (1913) |
extensions of patents by use of licenses, rights of copyright holder regarding “use” of copyrighted works |
| Charlton v. Kelly |
229 U.S. 447 (1913) |
procedures to approve extradition of criminal suspect to another country |
| Stratton's Independence, Ltd. v. Howbert |
231 U.S. 399 (1913) |
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| Weeks v. United States |
232 U.S. 383 (1914) |
establishment of the exclusionary rule for illegally obtained evidence |
| Ocampo v. United States |
234 U.S. 91 (1914) |
sometimes considered one of the Insular Cases |
| Shreveport Rate Case |
234 U.S. 342 (1914) |
Commerce clause, regulation of intrastate railroad rates |
| Coppage v. Kansas |
236 U.S. 1 (1915) |
Economic due process and yellow-dog contracts |
| Burdick v. United States |
236 U.S. 79 (1915) |
Legal effect of a pardon |
| Mutual Film Corporation v. Industrial Commission of Ohio |
236 U.S. 230 (1915) |
free speech and the censorship of motion pictures |
| Guinn v. United States |
238 U.S. 347 (1915) |
constitutionality of Oklahoma's "grandfather law" used to disenfranchise African-American voters |
| Hadacheck v. Sebastian |
239 U.S. 394 (1915) |
municipal regulation of land use |
| Bi-Metallic Investment Co. v. State Board of Equalization |
239 U.S. 441 (1915) |
denial of due process procedural protections for legislative and rulemaking acts, as opposed to adjudicatory proceedings |
| Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad |
240 U.S. 1 (1916) |
power to tax income under the Sixteenth Amendment |
| Stanton v. Baltic Mining Co. |
240 U.S. 103 (1916) |
power to tax income under the Sixteenth Amendment |
| Georgia, Florida, & Alabama Railway Co. v. Blish Milling Co. |
241 U.S. 190 (1916) |
responsibilities of parties under a bill of lading |
| United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola |
241 U.S. 265 (1916) |
case brought against Coca-Cola under the Pure Food and Drug Act |
| United States v. Oppenheimer |
242 U.S. 85 (1916) |
doctrine of res judicata applies to criminal cases |
| American Well Works Co. v. Layne & Bowler Co. |
241 U.S. 257 (1916) |
scope of federal question jurisdiction in patent law case |
| Caminetti v. United States |
242 U.S. 470 (1917) |
Mann Act applies to consensual extramarital sex |
| Bunting v. Oregon |
243 U.S. 426 (1917) |
Labor law, ten-hour workday |
| Adams v. Tanner |
244 U.S. 590 (1917) |
Substantive due process, state's prohibition of employment agencies was unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment |
| Buchanan v. Warley |
245 U.S. 60 (1917) |
constitutionality of local ordinance compelling racial segregation of residential housing |
| Chicago Board of Trade v. United States |
246 U.S. 231 (1918) |
Rules of a commodities exchange examined under rule of reason |
| Hammer v. Dagenhart |
247 U.S. 251 (1918) |
Congressional power to regulate child labor under the Commerce Clause |
| International News Service v. Associated Press |
248 U.S. 215 (1918) |
property rights in news; misappropriation doctrine |
| Schenck v. United States |
249 U.S. 47 (1919) |
freedom of speech, “clear and present danger”, “shouting fire in a crowded theater” |
| Debs v. United States |
249 U.S. 211 (1919) |
sedition |
| Abrams v. United States |
250 U.S. 616 (1919) |
validity of criminalizing criticism of the government |
| Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States |
251 U.S. 385 (1920) |
Fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine in a tax evasion case |
| Eisner v. Macomber |
252 U.S. 189 (1920) |
pro rata stock dividend not taxable income |
| Missouri v. Holland |
252 U.S. 416 (1920) |
states’ rights |
| United States v. Wheeler |
254 U.S. 281 (1920) |
Privileges and Immunities Clause and kidnapping |
| Smith v. Kansas City Title & Trust Co. |
255 U.S. 180 (1921) |
federal question jurisdiction in state corporate law matter |
| Newberry v. United States |
256 U.S. 232 (1921) |
Congress lacks the power to regulate primary elections |
| Dillon v. Gloss |
256 U.S. 368 (1921) |
Constitutional amendment process |
