| Adams v. Bullock | No. The trolley company was not negligent. The risk that a child would swing a long wire that w… | 2026-04-07 |
| Allegheny County v. ACLU | The crèche inside the courthouse violates the Establishment Clause because | 2026-04-10 |
| Ardente v. Horan | No. The letter accompanying the signed agreement was a conditional acceptance — it added terms… | 2026-04-07 |
| Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp | A facially neutral law or government action does not violate the Equal Prot | 2026-04-10 |
| Baehr v. Penn-o-Tex | The court found for Penn-o-Tex, reasoning that the “promise” was too indefinite and did not con… | 2026-04-07 |
| Baker v. Carr | Reapportionment claims raise justiciable questions under the Equal Prote | 2026-04-09 |
| Barron v. Mayor & City of Baltimore | The Bill of Rights applies only to the federal government, not to state or | 2026-04-10 |
| Benn v. Thomas | Yes. Under the “eggshell skull” (thin-skull) rule, a defendant who causes injury to a plaintiff… | 2026-04-07 |
| Bethel v. New York City Transit Authority | The New York Court of Appeals abolished the heightened common carrier st | 2026-04-09 |
| BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore | Due process limits on punitive damages; three-guidepost test for review | 2026-04-10 |
| Bolling v. Sharpe | Yes. Racial segregation in the District of Columbia’s public schools vio | 2026-04-09 |
| Bond v. United States | The Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act does not cover Bond’s co | 2026-04-10 |
| Boomer v. Atlantic Cement Co. | Permanent damages in lieu of injunction for ongoing nuisance | 2026-04-06 |
| Boumediene v. Bush | Yes. Detainees at Guantanamo Bay have a constitutional right to habeas corp | 2026-04-10 |
| Brandenburg v. Ohio | Incitement test — only speech directed to produce imminent lawless action unprotected | 2026-04-06 |
| Britton v. Turner | Yes. A party who has substantially performed and then breached may recover in quantum meruit fo… | 2026-04-07 |
| Brown v. Board of Education | Racially segregated public schools violate Equal Protection; “separate but equal” overruled | 2026-04-06 |
| Buckley v. Valeo | Contribution limits are constitutional (justified by preventing corruption | 2026-04-10 |
| Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc | Yes on both questions. The Court held RFRA applies to closely held corpo | 2026-04-08 |
| Byrne v. Boadle | Yes. The accident itself speaks to negligence. A barrel of flour falling from a building window… | 2026-04-07 |
| Carter v. Kinney | Bible study attendee was licensee, not invitee; no commercial benefit to host | 2026-04-10 |
| Christensen v. Swenson | Security guard eating lunch at post was within scope of employment; vicarious liability | 2026-04-10 |
| Citizens United v. FEC | First Amendment bars restrictions on independent corporate political expenditures | 2026-04-06 |
| Clark v. Marsiglia | No. A party ordered to cease performance must stop work. Continuing to perform after receiving… | 2026-04-07 |
| Clinton v. City of New York | The Supreme Court struck down the Line Item Veto Act six-to-three. The P | 2026-04-09 |
| Cooley v. Board of Wardens | Pennsylvania’s pilotage law is constitutional. States may regulate local as | 2026-04-10 |
| Cooper v. Aaron | No. State officials are bound by the Supreme Court’s constitutional inte | 2026-04-09 |
| Craig v. Boren | Yes. The Oklahoma statute violated the Equal Protection Clause because t | 2026-04-09 |
| Davies v. Mann | No. The Court of Exchequer held for Davies (the plaintiff), finding that | 2026-04-09 |
| Davis v. Jacoby | The offer was bilateral. The court held that when an offer is ambiguous as to whether acceptanc… | 2026-04-07 |
| Derdiarian v. Felix Contracting | No. The driver’s negligent act was a foreseeable intervening cause — one of the very risks that… | 2026-04-07 |
| Dillon v. Legg | Yes. The California Supreme Court held that zone-of-danger was not the c | 2026-04-09 |
| District of Columbia v. Heller | Yes. The Supreme Court held, 5–4, that the Second Amendment protects an | 2026-04-08 |
| Doe v. Manheimer | Overgrown vegetation created opportunity for rapist; criminal act was superseding cause | 2026-04-10 |
| Dougherty v. Salt | No. The note was a voluntary and unenforceable promise to make a gift. The recitation of “value… | 2026-04-07 |
| Drennan v. Star Paving Co. | Promissory estoppel makes subcontractor’s bid irrevocable upon reasonable reliance | 2026-04-06 |
| Elmore v. American Motors Corp. | Strict products liability extends to bystanders injured by defective vehicle | 2026-04-10 |
| Employment Division v. Smith | Free Exercise Clause does not require religious exemptions from neutral, generally applicable laws | 2026-04-06 |
| Escola v. Coca Cola Bottling Co. | Traynor concurrence laying foundation for strict products liability | 2026-04-06 |
| Estancias Dallas Corp. v. Schultz | Private nuisance; air conditioner noise; injunction upheld despite abatement cost | 2026-04-10 |
| Farwell v. Keaton | Yes. The Michigan Supreme Court held that Siegrist owed a duty of reason | 2026-04-09 |
| Free Enterprise Fund v. PCAOB | Double-layer for-cause removal protection for executive officers violates Article II | 2026-04-06 |
| Gala v. Hamilton | Professional negligent misrepresentation; Restatement § 552 limits duty to intended recipients | 2026-04-10 |
| Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority | Yes. National League of Cities v. Usery is overruled. The FLSA applies t | 2026-04-09 |
| Garratt v. Dailey | The trial court found Brian lacked intent to harm but remanded to determine whether Brian knew… | 2026-04-07 |
| Geduldig v. Aiello | No. California’s exclusion of normal pregnancy from disability coverage doe | 2026-04-10 |
| Gibbons v. Ogden | Congress has broad power to regulate commerce among the states, includin | 2026-04-09 |
| Gonzales v. Raich | Commerce Clause permits regulation of homegrown marijuana as part of broader economic scheme | 2026-04-06 |
| Green v. County School Board | No. A freedom-of-choice plan that fails in practice to dismantle the dual s | 2026-04-10 |
| Greenman v. Yuba Power Products | Yes. A manufacturer is strictly liable in tort when it places on the market a product with a ma… | 2026-04-07 |
| Groves v. John Wunder Co. | Willful breach entitles non-breaching party to cost-of-completion damages | 2026-04-06 |
| Grutter v. Bollinger | Yes. Justice O’Connor, writing for a 5–4 majority, held that student bod | 2026-04-08 |
| Hadley v. Baxendale | Consequential damages limited to losses foreseeable at time of contracting | 2026-04-06 |
| Hamer v. Sidway | Forbearance from a legal right constitutes valid consideration | 2026-04-06 |
| Hammer v. Dagenhart | No. Congress exceeded its Commerce Clause power. The production of goods — | 2026-04-10 |
| Hammontree v. Jenner | No. The court refused to apply strict liability. Negligence, not strict liability, is the appro… | 2026-04-07 |
| Hanks v. Powder Ridge Restaurant Corp. | Exculpatory clause unenforceable; recreational business cannot exculpate against own negligence | 2026-04-10 |
| Hoffman v. Red Owl Stores | Promissory estoppel applies to pre-contractual negotiations even without final agreement | 2026-04-06 |
| Hustler Magazine v. Falwell | No. The First Amendment bars public figures from recovering for IIED for parody or satire that… | 2026-04-07 |
| Hymowitz v. Eli Lilly and Co | The New York Court of Appeals adopted a market share liability theory, a | 2026-04-09 |
| Indiana Harbor Belt RR v. American Cyanamid | No. Judge Posner held that shipping acrylonitrile through Chicago is not abnormally dangerous f… | 2026-04-07 |
| INS v. Chadha | Legislative veto unconstitutional — bicameralism and presentment required | 2026-04-06 |
| Jacob & Youngs, Inc. v. Kent | Substantial performance doctrine — trivial innocent deviation gives diminution in value, not replacement cost | 2026-04-06 |
| Kirksey v. Kirksey | The court reversed the trial court’s verdict for plaintiff, holding for defendant. The brother’… | 2026-04-07 |
| Kitchen v. Herring | Specific performance is available. Land is unique — every parcel is different — so damages are… | 2026-04-07 |
| Korematsu v. United States | No. The Supreme Court upheld the exclusion order, 6–3, holding that raci | 2026-04-08 |
| Laclede Gas Co. v. Amoco Oil | Yes. Specific performance is available. The court rejected the argument that the contract was i… | 2026-04-07 |
| Lee v. Weisman | Yes. Government-directed prayer at a public school graduation ceremony viol | 2026-04-10 |
| Lefkowitz v. Great Minneapolis Surplus Store | A sufficiently definite advertisement can constitute a binding offer | 2026-04-06 |
| Lemon v. Kurtzman | Yes. Both statutes violated the Establishment Clause because they create | 2026-04-09 |
| Lochner v. New York | Yes. The Supreme Court, 5–4, struck down the New York law as an illegiti | 2026-04-08 |
| Loving v. Virginia | Anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional; marriage is a fundamental right | 2026-04-06 |
| Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife | Three-part Article III standing test; speculative future harm insufficient | 2026-04-06 |
| MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co | Yes. When a manufacturer places into commerce a product that is inherently dangerous if neglige… | 2026-04-07 |
| Marbury v. Madison | Establishes judicial review — courts’ power to strike down unconstitutional legislation | 2026-04-06 |
| Marsh v. Chambers | No. Legislative prayer does not violate the Establishment Clause because th | 2026-04-10 |
| Martin v. Herzog | Yes to both. Violation of a statutory safety standard is negligence per se — the jury has no di… | 2026-04-07 |
| Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee | Supreme Court has appellate jurisdiction over state court federal law decisions | 2026-04-06 |
| Martin v. Reynolds Metals Co | Yes. An invasion of a party’s possessory interest in land by particles — even microscopic ones… | 2026-04-07 |
| Mathias v. Accor Economy Lodging | Punitive damages; hotel knowingly rented room with bedbugs; Posner economic deterrence analysis | 2026-04-10 |
| McCulloch v. Maryland | Implied powers under Necessary and Proper Clause; federal supremacy bars state taxation | 2026-04-06 |
| McDonald v. City of Chicago | Yes. The Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms for the purpose of | 2026-04-09 |
| McDougald v. Perry | Yes. A spare tire does not ordinarily escape from a tractor-trailer without negligence in the m… | 2026-04-07 |
| Mills v. Wyman | Stub — to be completed. | 2026-04-11 |
| Missouri v. Holland | Yes. The treaty power in Article II, Section 2 is not limited by the Ten | 2026-04-09 |
| Morrison v. Olson | Independent counsel statute upheld; for-cause removal of inferior officer does not violate Article II | 2026-04-06 |
| Murphy v. Steeplechase Amusement Co. | Judge Benjamin Cardozo held for the defendant. Murphy assumed the risk o | 2026-04-08 |
| Neri v. Retail Marine Corp | Retail Marine was entitled to retain lost profits plus incidental damages. As a volume seller (… | 2026-04-07 |
| New York Times Co. v. Sullivan | Yes. The First Amendment prohibits a public official from recovering dam | 2026-04-09 |
| New York v. United States | No. The Supreme Court held, 6–3, that the take-title provision was uncon | 2026-04-08 |
| NFIB v. Sebelius | ACA individual mandate invalid under Commerce Clause but saved as a tax | 2026-04-06 |
| Nixon v. United States | The Senate’s power to “try” impeachments under Article I is a nonjusticiabl | 2026-04-10 |
| NLRB v. Noel Canning | The Recess Appointments Clause applies to intrasession recesses and to vaca | 2026-04-10 |
| O’Brien v. Cunard | O’Brien consented by holding out her arm. The surgeon was entitled to rely on objective manifes… | 2026-04-07 |
| Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad | Proximate cause / duty owed only to foreseeable plaintiffs (Cardozo vs. Andrews) | 2026-04-06 |
| Parker v. 20th Century Fox Film Corp. | Employee need not accept different or inferior work to mitigate wrongful discharge damages | 2026-04-06 |
| Perez v. Wyeth Laboratories | Learned intermediary doctrine inapplicable to direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising | 2026-04-10 |
| Philadelphia v. New Jersey | Yes. New Jersey’s waste import ban is facially discriminatory against out-o | 2026-04-10 |
| Picard v. Barry Pontiac-Buick | Yes. The employee’s intentional touching of the camera held by Picard constituted battery. Cont… | 2026-04-07 |
| Posecai v. Wal-Mart Stores | Balancing test for duty to protect invitees from third-party crime; foreseeability analysis | 2026-04-10 |
| Printz v. United States | No. The Supreme Court held, 5–4, that the Brady Act’s interim provision | 2026-04-08 |
| Randi W. v. Muroc Joint Unified School District | School district’s favorable recommendation of molester owed duty to foreseeable victims | 2026-04-10 |
| RAV v. City of St. Paul | Yes. The ordinance is facially unconstitutional because it regulates speech | 2026-04-10 |
| Reid v. Covert | No. The Constitution’s Bill of Rights prevails over executive agreements wi | 2026-04-10 |
| Reynolds v. Sims | Yes. The Equal Protection Clause demands that seats in both chambers of | 2026-04-09 |
| Romer v. Evans | Yes. Colorado’s Amendment 2 violated the Equal Protection Clause because | 2026-04-09 |
| Rowland v. Christian | Abolished licensee/invitee/trespasser categories; general reasonable care for all entrants | 2026-04-10 |
| Rylands v. Fletcher | Yes. A person who brings onto his land something likely to do mischief if it escapes must keep… | 2026-04-07 |
| SEC v. W.J. Howey Co. | Four-part Howey test defines “investment contract” and what is a security | 2026-04-06 |
| Seffert v. Los Angeles Transit Lines | Large pain and suffering award affirmed; jury discretion in noneconomic damages | 2026-04-10 |
| Sherbert v. Verner | No. Denying unemployment benefits to Sherbert for refusing Saturday work su | 2026-04-10 |
| Simonsen v. Thorin | No affirmative duty to rescue stranger absent special relationship or causation of peril | 2026-04-10 |
| Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories | Market share liability for DES — burden shifted to defendants in fungible-product causation | 2026-04-06 |
| Snyder v. Phelps | Yes. The First Amendment protects Westboro’s speech on public land on matters of public concern… | 2026-04-07 |
| South Dakota v. Dole | Yes. The Supreme Court upheld the condition as a valid exercise of the S | 2026-04-08 |
| Spano v. Perini | Yes. New York adopted strict liability for blasting operations — any harm caused by a blasting… | 2026-04-07 |
| Sparks v. Gustafson | Yes. Sparks was entitled to compensation for the reasonable value of his services under unjust… | 2026-04-07 |
| Spur Industries, Inc. v. Del E. Webb Development Co. | The court held the feedlot was a public nuisance and granted the injunct | 2026-04-08 |
| State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Campbell | 145:1 punitive ratio excessive; single-digit ratio presumptively valid under due process | 2026-04-10 |
| State Rubbish Collectors Ass’n v. Siliznoff | Yes. Recovery for intentional infliction of severe emotional distress is available even without… | 2026-04-07 |
| Summers v. Tice | Alternative liability — burden of causation shifts to two negligent defendants | 2026-04-06 |
| Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California | Therapist has duty to warn identifiable third parties of patient’s violent threats | 2026-04-06 |
| Tedla v. Ellman | No, not in these circumstances. When a safety statute’s violation occurred because compliance w… | 2026-04-07 |
| Texas v. Johnson | Yes. Flag burning is expressive conduct protected by the First Amendment | 2026-04-09 |
| Thing v. La Chusa | No. The California Supreme Court restricted the Dillon v. Legg framework | 2026-04-09 |
| Trimarco v. Klein | Custom as evidence of standard of care; failure to use safety glass; custom not conclusive | 2026-04-10 |
| Truck Rent-a-Center v. Puritan Farms | The liquidated damages clause was enforceable. At the time of contracting, the parties could no… | 2026-04-07 |
| United States v. Carroll Towing Co. | Hand formula (B < PL) for determining negligence / breach of duty of care | 2026-04-06 |
| United States v. Lopez | First Commerce Clause limit in 60 years — gun possession near schools not economic activity | 2026-04-06 |
| United States v. Morrison | No. Gender-motivated violence is not economic activity and does not subs | 2026-04-09 |
| United States v. O’Brien | No. The anti-draft-card-burning statute is constitutional. The government h | 2026-04-10 |
| United States v. Virginia | Yes. VMI’s male-only admissions policy violated the Equal Protection Cla | 2026-04-09 |
| United States v. Windsor | Yes. DOMA § 3 is unconstitutional as a deprivation of the liberty of the pe | 2026-04-10 |
| Vincent v. Lake Erie Transportation Co. | Private necessity is qualified privilege — actor liable for damage caused despite justification | 2026-04-06 |
| Wagon Mound I | A defendant is liable only for damage of the type that was reasonably foreseeable as a conseque… | 2026-04-07 |
| Warner v. McLay | The owner is entitled to the cost of completion (what it costs to finish the work with a substi… | 2026-04-07 |
| Washington v. Davis | No. The Supreme Court held that discriminatory impact alone does not tri | 2026-04-08 |
| Watts v. Watts | Yes. The unmarried cohabitant may pursue claims based on express or implied contract, as well a… | 2026-04-07 |
| Webb v. McGowin | Yes. The Alabama Court of Appeals held the promise enforceable. Where a promisee has previously… | 2026-04-07 |
| West Lynn Creamery v. Healy | Yes. The combined effect of the assessment and subsidy scheme is protection | 2026-04-10 |
| Wheeler v. White | Promissory estoppel is available even when the underlying promise is too indefinite to constitu… | 2026-04-07 |
| White v. Benkowski | Contract damages limited to economic loss — no punitive damages or mental distress | 2026-04-06 |
| Wickard v. Filburn | Yes. Congress may regulate Filburn’s home-grown wheat because, when view | 2026-04-09 |
| Williamson v. Lee Optical | No. The Oklahoma law survives rational basis review because a legislature c | 2026-04-10 |
| Wishnatsky v. Huey | Door closing on arm; de minimis contact not battery; objective offensiveness standard | 2026-04-10 |
| Womack v. Eldridge | Yes. The Virginia Supreme Court adopted the tort of intentional infliction of emotional distres… | 2026-04-07 |
| Wood v. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon | Implied reasonable-efforts obligation prevents contract from being illusory | 2026-04-06 |
| Ybarra v. Spangard | Yes. When a plaintiff suffers injury during an operation while under anesthesia, and the injury… | 2026-04-07 |
| Yick Wo v. Hopkins | Yes. Even though the San Francisco ordinance was neutral on its face, it | 2026-04-09 |
| Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer | No. The Supreme Court held, 6–3, that the steel seizure was unconstituti | 2026-04-08 |
| Zivotofsky v. Kerry | Yes. The recognition of foreign states and governments is an exclusively ex | 2026-04-10 |