Social Studies Department at Hopkins High School

Your job is to come up with a "Top Ten" list of Supreme Court decisions. You may work with a partner.

The following list of cases is for your use, but you may choose decisions not on this list for inclusion in your "Top Ten."

Explain (a)your criteria for selection and (b)include a brief summary of each case.

Supreme Court Decisions
• Baker v Carr
• Bethel School District v Fraser
• Brandenburg v Ohio
• Brown v Board of Education of Topeka [1954, 1955]
• Buckley v Valeo
• California v Greenwood
• County of Alleghany v American Civil Liberties Union
• Dennis v United States
• Engel v Vitale
• Escobedo v Illinois
• Furman v Georgia
• Gideon v Wainwright
• Gitlow v New York
• Griswold v Connecticut
• Hazelwood School District v Kuhlmeier
• Heart of Atlanta Motel v United States
• In re Gault
• Katz v United States
• Korematsu v United States
• Lemon v Kurtzman
• Mapp v Ohio
• Marbury v Madison
• McCulloch v Maryland
• Miller v California
• Miranda v Arizona
• New York Times v Sullivan
• New York Times Company v United States
• Plessy v Ferguson
• Regents of the University of California v Bakke
• Reno v ACLU
• Reynolds v Sims / Wesberry v Sanders
• Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v Virginia
• Roe v Wade
• Schenck v United States
• Scott v Sanford
• Shaw v Reno
• Shelley v Kraemer
• Swann v Charlotte - Mecklenburg Board of Education
• Texas v Johnson
• Tinker v Des Moines School District
• United States v Lopez
• United States v Nixon
• United States v O'Brien
• Weber v Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Company
• Webster v Reproductive Health Services
• West Virginia Board of Education v Barnette
• Wilkins v Missouri

In addition to the The Bill of Rights; a users guide and the textbook, the following sites may help you in sorting out these cases:

• Fed World's Supreme Court Decisions, 1937-1945
• Find Law's Index of Supreme Court Cases
• Cornell University Law School's Leagal Information Institute