| Case name |
Citation |
Summary |
| Edwards v. Arizona |
1981 |
police may not initiate questioning once a suspect has invoked his rights under Miranda v. Arizona |
| Estelle v. Smith |
1981 |
statements taken in violation of the Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights to counsel may not be admitted at a capital sentencing proceeding |
| Thomas v. Review Board of the Indiana Employment Security Division |
1981 |
religious pacifism and unemployment benefits under the Free Exercise Clause |
| Kassel v. Consolidated Freightways Corp. |
1981 |
Iowa state restriction on tractor trailer length violated Dormant Commerce Clause |
| Michael M. v. Superior Court of Sonoma County |
1981 |
sex discrimination in statutory rape laws |
| H. L. v. Matheson |
1981 |
upholding parental notification law for minors' abortions |
| Diamond, Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks v. Diehr et al. |
1981 |
patentability of machines controlled by computer software |
| Fedorenko v. United States |
1981 |
revoking the citizenship of a naturalized former concentration camp guard |
| Minnesota v. Clover Leaf Creamery Co. |
1981 |
ban on nonreturnable milk containers under the rational basis test of equal protection law |
| Upjohn Co. v. United States |
1981 |
attorney-client privilege |
| Stone v. Graham |
1980 |
requiring privately-funded posting of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms violates the Establishment Clause |
| Industrial Union Department v. American Petroleum Institute |
1980 |
administrative law, determining OSHA's powers to regulate toxic chemicals in the workplace |
| Fullilove v. Klutznick |
1980 |
Equal protection, government contract set-aside for minority owned businesses |
| United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians |
1980 |
seizure of Native American lands |
| Harris v. McRae |
1980 |
states are not required to fund abortions |
| White Mountain Apache Tribe v. Bracker |
1980 |
state is not allowed to tax a non-Indian contractor who works exclusively on a reservation |
| Ohio v. Roberts |
1980 |
hearsay is admissible under the Sixth Amendment if it bears particular guarantees of trustworthiness; overruled by Crawford v. Washington |
| Adams v. Texas |
1980 |
juror oaths regarding factual deliberations in capital cases |
| United States v. Payner |
1980 |
Court's supervisory power does not allow application of exclusionary rule even where third party's Fourth Amendment rights were clearly violated |
| Beck v. Alabama |
1980 |
lesser-included instructions in capital murder cases |