[v. 1] School desegregation : Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Obscenity : Roth v. United States (1957)
School prayer : Engel v. Vitale (1962)
Fair trials : Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
Sexual privacy : Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
Censorship : New York Times vs. United States (1971)
Abortion : Roe v. Wade (1973)
Affirmative action : University of California v. Bakke (1978) - Book banning : Board of Education v. Pico (1982)
Flag burning : Texas v. Johnson (1989)
The U.S. Constitution : The Preamble (1789).
[v. 4] Federal supremacy : McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
The trail of tears : The Cherokees v. Georgia (1831) ; Worcester v. Georgia (1832)
Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus : In the Matter of Milligan (1866)
Separate but equal : Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) ; Dissenting in Plessy
Trust busting : Standard Oil v. United States (1911)
Child labor : Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918)
The atomic spies : The Rosenbergs v. United States (1953) ; Dissenting in The Rosenbergs
Libel : The New York Times v. Sullivan (1964)
Conscientious objection : Muhammad Ali v. United States (1971)
Hate crimes : R.A.V. v. St. Paul (1992) ; Wisconsin v. Mitchell (1993)
[v. 5] Slave ship cases : The Antelope (1825)
Religious liberty : Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940)
Treason : Cramer v. United States (1945)
Military justice : Toth v. Quarles (1955)
Marijuana : Leary v. United States (1969)
Birth control : Eisenstadt v. Baird (1972)
Baseball : Flood v. Kuhn (1972)
Equal pay for equal work : Corning v. Brennan (1974)
Child abuse : DeShaney v. Winnebago (1989)
"Son of Sam" law : Simon & Schuster v. New York Crime Victims Board