Supreme Court Cases Library

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The National Constitution Center’s Supreme Court Cases Library includes materials on the most influential Supreme Court cases in American history. To ensure nonpartisan rigor and ideological diversity, we enlisted a pair of leading scholars from diverse constitutional perspectives—Caroline Fredrickson and Ilan Wurman—to help choose the landmark cases included in the Supreme Court Cases Library. The Supreme Court Cases Library also includes landmark cases curated by the National Constitution Center team.

Constitutional Topics
Town of Greece v. Galloway

572 U.S. 565 (2014)

Employment Division v. Smith

494 U.S. 872 (1990)

Texas v. Johnson

491 U.S. 397 (1989)

Lynch v. Donnelly

465 U.S. 668 (1984)

Frontiero v. Richardson

411 U.S. 677 (1973)

Wisconsin v. Yoder

406 U.S. 205 (1972)

Brandenburg v. Ohio

395 U.S. 444 (1969)

United States v. Seeger

380 U.S. 163 (1965)

Sherbert v. Verner

374 U.S. 398 (1963)

Engel v. Vitale

370 U.S. 421 (1962)

Sweezy v. New Hampshire

354 U.S. 234 (1957)

Terminiello v. Chicago

337 U.S. 1 (1949)

Thornhill v. Alabama

310 U.S. 88 (1940)

Stromberg v. California

283 U.S. 359 (1931)

Whitney v. California

274 U.S. 357 (1927)

Gitlow v. New York

268 U.S. 652 (1925)

Abrams v. United States

250 U.S. 616 (1919)

Schenck v. United States

249 U.S. 47 (1919)

Reynolds v. United States

98 U.S. 145 (1879)

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