| Case name |
Citation |
Summary |
| United States v. Sprague |
282 U.S. 716 (1931) |
Tenth Amendment |
| Stromberg v. California |
283 U.S. 359 (1931) |
constitutionality of California red flag-banning statute, freedom of symbolic speech |
| Burnet v. Logan |
283 U.S. 404 (1931) |
Cost basis must be recovered before taxpayer realizes any taxable income |
| Near v. Minnesota |
283 U.S. 697 (1931) |
freedom of speech, prior restraints |
| United States v. Kirby Lumber Co. |
284 U.S. 1 (1931) |
taxation of gain on reduction of debt |
| Blackmer v. United States |
284 U.S. 421 (1932) |
International law and 5th Amendment allowed U.S. government to retain jurisdiction over its citizens abroad |
| Blockburger v. United States |
284 U.S. 299 (1932) |
standard for double jeopardy |
| New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann |
285 U.S. 262 (1932) |
substantive due process |
| Nixon v. Condon |
286 U.S. 73 (1932) |
White primaries in Texas violated Equal Protection Clause |
| Powell v. Alabama |
287 U.S. 45 (1932) |
access to counsel |
| Sorrells v. United States |
287 U.S. 435 (1932) |
Entrapment recognized as a valid defense |
| Burroughs v. United States |
290 U.S. 534 (1934) |
upholding the constitutionality of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act |
| Nebbia v. New York |
291 U.S. 502 (1934) |
Substantive Due Process, economic regulation |
| Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan |
293 U.S. 388 (1935) |
delegation of authority, New Deal |
| Gregory v. Helvering |
293 U.S. 465 (1935) |
tax law, business purpose doctrine |
| Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States |
295 U.S. 495 (1935) |
interstate commerce, New Deal |
| Humphrey's Executor v. United States |
295 U.S. 602 (1935) |
administrative action, separation of powers |
| Pacific States Box & Basket Co. v. White |
296 U.S. 176 (1935) |
early case on standard of review for regulations |
| Fox Film Corp. v. Muller |
296 U.S. 207 (1935) |
contract dispute, "adequate and independent state ground" |
| United States v. Constantine |
296 U.S. 287 (1935) |
taxation of liquor |
| United States v. Butler |
297 U.S. 1 (1936) |
Taxation power, Tenth Amendment |
| Grosjean v. American Press Co. |
297 U.S. 233 (1936) |
Freedom of the press, taxation of newspapers |
| Brown v. Mississippi |
297 U.S. 278 (1936) |
coerced confessions by means of violence |
| Wallace v. Cutten |
298 U.S. 229 (1936) |
application of the Grain Futures Act |
| United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. |
299 U.S. 304 (1936) |
export restrictions, Presidential power over international commerce |
| DeJonge v. Oregon |
299 U.S. 353 (1937) |
14th Amendment applied to freedom of assembly |
| West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish |
300 U.S. 379 (1937) |
freedom of contract, minimum wage laws; “the switch in time that saved nine” |
| National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation |
301 U.S. 1 (1937) |
interstate commerce; another consequence of “the switch in time that saved nine” |
| Steward Machine Company v. Davis |
301 U.S. 548 (1937) |
Court upholds the unemployment insurance provisions of the Social Security Act |
| Palko v. Connecticut |
302 U.S. 319 (1937) |
selective incorporation, double jeopardy |
| Connecticut General Life Insurance Company v. Johnson |
303 U.S. 77 (1938) |
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| Lovell v. City of Griffin |
303 U.S. 444 (1938) |
City ordinance requiring official permission to distribute literature held unconstitutionally broad |
| New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co. |
303 U.S. 552 (1938) |
safeguard right to boycott and chips away at discriminatory hiring practices against African Americans |
| Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins |
304 U.S. 64 (1938) |
limiting general federal common law by requiring state law apply except where federal law exists |
| Hinderlider v. La Plata River & Cherry Creek Ditch |
304 U.S. 92 (1938) |
reaffirming existence of federal common law in other cases |
| United States v. Carolene Products Co. |
304 U.S. 144 (1938) |
interstate commerce, substantive due process, and (in footnote four) equal protection |
| Johnson v. Zerbst |
304 U.S. 458 (1938) |
Sixth Amendment right to counsel in federal criminal cases |
| Collins v. Yosemite Park & Curry Co. |
304 U.S. 518 (1938) |
Twenty-first Amendment and the enforcement of state liquor laws in U.S. national parks |
| Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada |
305 U.S. 337 (1938) |
chipping away at separate but equal education |
| United States v. Miller |
307 U.S. 174 (1939) |
Second Amendment, right to bear arms |
| Coleman v. Miller |
307 U.S. 433 (1939) |
length of time proposed Constitutional amendments remain pending |
| Hague v. CIO |
307 U.S. 496 (1939) |
labor unions and freedom of assembly |
| Schneider v. New Jersey |
308 U.S. 147 (1939) |
enforcement of littering ordinances and free speech |
| Chambers v. Florida |
309 U.S. 227 (1940) |
coerced confessions in a murder case |
| Cantwell v. Connecticut |
310 U.S. 296 (1940) |
incorporated Free Exercise Clause |
| Minersville School District v. Gobitis |
310 U.S. 586 (1940) |
saluting the flag |
| Hansberry v. Lee |
311 U.S. 32 (1940) |
res judicata may not bind a subsequent plaintiff who had no opportunity to be represented in the earlier civil action |
| Sibbach v. Wilson |
312 U.S. 1 (1941) |
Erie doctrine, applicability of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure |
| Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. |
312 U.S. 496 (1941) |
Abstention doctrine |
| Cox v. New Hampshire |
312 U.S. 569 (1941) |
petitions on public property |
| United States v. Darby Lumber Co. |
312 U.S. 100 (1941) |
power of Congress to regulate employment conditions; Commerce Clause |
| United States v. Classic |
313 U.S. 299 (1941) |
power of the federal government to regulate of primary elections |
