Oakes v. Mase, 165 U.S. 363 (decided February 15, 1897): vacating judgment for engineer’s estate because negligence causing his death (a...

Reynolds v. Atlantic Coast Line R.R. Co., 336 U.S. 207 (decided February 14, 1949): failure to clear sugar cane plants from railbed (this...

Strawbridge v. Curtiss, 7 U.S. 267 (decided February 13, 1806): Out of this evil seed grew upwards of two hundred years of ridiculously...

Chambers v. Florida, 309 U.S. 227 (decided February 12, 1940): black suspects (robbery of white man) kept in jail for six days, denied...

Jaffree v. Board of School Comm’rs of Mobile County, 459 U.S. 1314 (decided February 11, 1983): staying District Court order allowing...

Everson v. Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1 (decided February 10, 1947): upholds against Establishment Clause and Due Process attack...

United States v. Lane Motor Co., 344 U.S. 630 (decided February 9, 1953): truck used solely to commute to illegal distillery is not...

Irvine v. California, 347 U.S. 128 (decided February 8, 1953): state (though not federal goverment) can use illegal means to obtain...

Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States, 348 U.S. 272 (decided February 7, 1955): Alaskan tribe could not recover from United States value...

District of Columbia v. Gallaher, 124 U.S. 505 (decided February 6, 1888): District of Columbia is bound by post-contract modifications...

Queen v. Hepburn, 11 U.S. 290 (decided February 5, 1813): Marshall holds that while hearsay can support a claim to property (for example...

Dice v. Akron, Canton & Youngstown R.R. Co., 342 U.S. 359 (decided February 4, 1952): release of personal injury defendant sued under...

Germany v. Philipp, 592 U.S. 518 (decided February 3, 2021): Foreign Sovereignty Immunities Act barred suit in U.S. courts by Holocaust...

Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 17 U.S. 518 (decided February 2, 1819): state attempt to change existing charter of college to turn it...

Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (decided February 1, 1803): Marshall rules that the Court has no original jurisdiction to enforce a...

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R.R. Co., 382 U.S. 423 (decided January 31, 1966): Arkansas statute...

Southern Pacific Co. v. Gallagher, 306 U.S. 167 (decided January 30, 1939): California’s Use Tax did not violate Dormant Commerce Clause...

Marchetti v. United States, 390 U.S. 39 (decided January 29, 1968): I didn’t know until I read this case that something can be against...

Gold v. United States, 352 U.S. 985 (decided January 28, 1957): defendant on trial for filing false affidavit stating he was not a...

Adair v. United States, 208 U.S. 161 (decided January 27, 1908): Congress cannot criminalize sacking an interstate carrier employee for...