Case name | Citation | Summary | United States v. Phellis | 257|156|1921}} | shares in a subsidiary corporation issued to stockholders in the parent corporation considered taxable income |
Leser v. Garnett | 258|130|1922}} | constitutionality of Nineteenth Amendment |
Balzac v. Porto Rico | 258|298|1922}} | sometimes considered one of the Insular Cases |
United States v. Moreland | 258|433|1922}} | Fifth Amendment, hard labor in prison |
Child Labor Tax Case | 259|20|1922}} | docket title Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co., found the Child Labor Tax Law of 1919 was not a valid use of Congress' power under the Taxing and Spending Clause |
Hill v. Wallace | 259|44|1922}} | use of congressional taxing power under the Taxing and Spending Clause; relationship to Commerce Clause |
Federal Baseball Club v. National League | 259|200|1922}} | baseball and antitrust regulation |
Wyoming v. Colorado | 259|419|1922}} | whether Colorado could divert water from the Laramie River, an interstate stream system |
Takao Ozawa v. United States | 260|178|1922}} | naturalization and race (Japanese-American) |
Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon | 260|393|1922}} | Substantive Due Process, Takings clause of the Fifth Amendment |
Moore v. Dempsey | 261|86|1923}} | mob-dominated trials, federal writ of habeas corpus, due process |
United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind | 261|204|1923}} | naturalization and race (Indian-American) |
Adkins v. Children's Hospital | 261|525|1923}} | freedom of contract, minimum wage laws |
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. v. United States | 261|592|1923}} | creation of implied-in-fact contracts |
Board of Trade of City of Chicago v. Olsen | 262|1|1923}} | constitutionality of the Grain Futures Act under the Commerce Clause |
Meyer v. Nebraska | 262|390|1923}} | constitutionality of law prohibiting teaching of foreign languages; substantive due process |
Frothingham v. Mellon | 262|447|1923}} | rejection of taxpayer standing |
Rindge Co. v. County of Los Angeles | 262|700|1923}} | eminent domain and the building of a scenic road |
Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co. | 263|413|1923}} | review of state court decisions by U.S. District Courts |
Chung Fook v. White | 264|443|1924}} | Interpretation of Immigration Act of 1917; marked end of era of strict plain meaning interpretation of statutes |
United States v. Ninety-Five Barrels (More or Less) Alleged Apple Cider Vinegar | 265|438|1924}} | legality of misleading but factually accurate packaging statements under the Pure Food and Drug Act |
Carroll v. United States | 267|132|1925}} | whether police searches of automobiles without a warrant violate the Fourth Amendment |
Samuels v. McCurdy | 267|188|1925}} | Whether the ban on continued possession of previously legal contraband (alcohol in this case) constitutes an ex post facto law |
George W. Bush & Sons Co. v. Maloy | 267|317|1925}} | Dormant Commerce Clause; states are not permitted to regulate common carriers engaged in interstate commerce on state highways |
Linder v. United States | 268|5|1925}} | prosecution of physicians under the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act |
Irwin v. Gavit | 268|161|1925}} | taxation of income from a trust |
Pierce v. Society of Sisters | 268|510|1925}} | privacy |
Gitlow v. New York | 268|652|1925}} | prosecution of seditious speech |
Bowers v. Kerbaugh-Empire Co. | 271|170|1926}} | taxation of reduced loss on exchanged currency |
Myers v. United States | 272|52|1926}} | Presidential authority to remove executive branch officials |
Village of Euclid, Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co. | 272|365|1926}} | zoning, due process |
United States v. General Electric Co. | 272|476|1926}} | patentee who grants a single license to a competitor to manufacture the patented product may lawfully fix the price at which the licensee may sell the product |
Farrington v. Tokushige | 273|284|1927}} | constitutionality of anti-foreign language statute in the Territory of Hawaii under the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment |
Nixon v. Herndon | 273|536|1927}} | challenging the white primaries in Texas |
Harmon v. Tyler | 273|668|1927}} | residential segregation based on race is a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment |
Buck v. Bell | 274|200|1927}} | compulsory sterilization, eugenics |
Hess v. Pawloski | 274|352|1927}} | consent to in personam jurisdiction |
Whitney v. California | 274|357|1927}} | prosecution of criminal syndicalism |
Gong Lum v. Rice | 275|78|1927}} | admission of Chinese girl to school for White children in Mississippi |
New Mexico v. Texas | 275|279|1927}} | determination of the border between New Mexico and Texas |
Miller v. Schoene | 276|272|1928}} | Substantive due process, takings clause |
Black and White Taxicab Co. v. Brown and Yellow Taxicab Co. | 276|518|1928}} | what law is to be applied when courts sit in diversity jurisdiction |
Olmstead v. United States | 277|438|1928}} | admissibility of illegally obtained phone wiretaps as evidence |
Wisconsin v. Illinois | 278|367|1930}} | federal power over state interests, Chicago Sanitary Canal |
Taft v. Bowers | 278|470|1929}} | taxation of a gift of shares of stock under the Sixteenth Amendment (Chief Justice Taft did not participate) |
United States v. Schwimmer | 279|644|1929}} | denial of naturalization to a pacifist, overruled by Girouard v. United States (1946) |
Pocket Veto Case | 279|655|1929}} | constitutionality of the pocket veto |
Old Colony Trust Co. v. Commissioner | 279|716|1929}} | third-party payment of income tax, effect of Revenue Act of 1926 |