Can you name the U.S. Supreme Court Justice by his or her Landmark Decision?

created by ianmez
  • Enter a Justice (last names acceptable) in the box below
  • Correctly named Justices will show up below
  • Click any empty Decision or Justice to answer for that location
  • Source: Legal Information Institute
  • This will probably be pretty hard. Case names aren't bluebooked for you purists out there, sorry. I'm open to suggestions on cases to add/subtract as well as interpretations of the "issues." Thanks.
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DecisionJusticeIssue
Marbury v. Madison (1803)Separation of Powers
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)Separation of Powers
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)Civil Rights
Slaughterhouse Cases (1872)13th & 14th Amendments
Pennoyer v. Neff (1878)Personal Jurisdiction
Civil Rights Cases (1883)13th &14th Amendments
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)Civil Rights
Lochner v. New York (1905)Freedom of Contract
National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel (1937)Interstate Commerce
Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins (1938)Choice of Law
West Virginia Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette (1943)1st Amendment-pledge of allegiance
Korematsu v. United States (1944)Internment of Japanese-Americans
International Shoe v. State of Washington (1945)Personal Jurisdiction
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)Civil Rights
DecisionJusticeIssue
Mapp v. Ohio (1961)Search and Seizure
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)Right to Counsel
New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964)Freedom of Speech
Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964)Obscenity
Katzenbach v. McClung (1964)Civil Rights
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)Privacy
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)Self-incrimination
Terry v. Ohio (1968)Search and Seizure
Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971)1st Amendment-religion
Roe v. Wade (1973)Abortion
Miller v. California (1973)Obscenity
United States v. Nixon (1974)Executive Power
Regents of Univ. of Cal. v. Bakke (1978)Affirmative Action
Planned Parenthood of Southeast PA v. Casey (1992)Abortion
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Supreme Court Justice by Landmark Decision Quiz

  1. by ianmez
  • Created May 20, 2011 in History
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