Historic Supreme Court Decisions - by Topic
The decisions in this collection have all been gathered into topical groups. (Many have been listed under several headings.) Clicking on any listed topic will retrieve all opinions classified under it. Instead of or in addition to using these topical groups you can search the entire collection for decisions using particular key words or phrases. (Click here to search the Supreme Court collection.) You can scroll down the topic list or click on one of the following letters to jump directly to that portion of it.- A-B
- Abortion
- Affirmative Action
- Aliens
- Armed Services
- Attainder
- Attorneys
- Bankruptcy
- Bill of Rights
- Birth Control
- Borders
- C-E
- Capital Punishment
- Censorship
- Children
- Choice of Law
- Citizenship
- Civil Rights
- Commander in Chief
- Commerce Clause
- Commercial Speech
- Communism
- Confessions
- Conflict of Laws
- Congress
- Contract Clause
- Courts
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Procedure
- Cruel and Unusual Punishment
- Damages
- Discrimination
- Discrimination Based on Nationality
- Double Jeopardy
- Due Process
- Education
- Eighth Amendment
- Elections
- Eleventh Amendment
- Eminent Domain
- Employment
- Environment
- Equal Protection
- Establishment of Religion
- Evidence
- Executive Power
- Executive Privilege
- Extradition
- F-H
- Federal Courts
- Federalism
- Fifth Amendment
- Fighting Words
- First Amendment
- Flag Desecration
- Foreign Affairs
- Forum
- Fourteenth Amendment
- Fourth Amendment
- Freedom of Assembly
- Freedom of Association
- Freedom of Religion
- Freedom of Speech
- Freedom of the Press
- Full Faith and Credit
- Gender
- Government Employment
- Habeas Corpus
- Handicapped
- Housing
- I-L
- Immunity
- Implied Powers
- Import Tariffs
- Incorporation
- Indians
- Insanity
- International Law
- International Relations
- Internet
- Investigations
- Involuntary Servitude
- Judicial Review
- Jurisdiction
- Jury
- Justiciability
- Juveniles
- Labor
- Legislative Policy
- Libel
- M-N
- O-R
- Obscenity
- Pardon
- Pensions
- Pledge of Loyalty
- Police Power
- Political Questions
- Political Speech
- Power to Tax and Spend
- Precedent
- Presidency
- Prisons
- Privacy
- Privileges and Immunities
- Property
- Race
- Racial Discrimination
- Reapportionment
- Regulation
- Removal Power
- Reproduction
- Res Judicata
- Right to a Hearing
- Right to Bear Arms
- Right to Confront Witnesses
- Right to Counsel
- Right to Travel
- S-U
- Searches and Seizures
- Second Amendment
- Sedition
- Segregation
- Self-Incrimination
- Separation of Power
- Sex Discrimination
- Sexuality
- Sixth Amendment
- Slavery
- Social Security
- Standing
- State Action
- States
- Sterilization
- Supremacy Clause
- Symbolic Speech
- Takings Clause
- Taxation
- Tenth Amendment
- Testimony
- Thirteenth Amendment
- Trial by Jury
- V-Z