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| Case name | Citation | Summary |
| Near v. Minnesota | 1931 | freedom of speech, prior restraints |
| Burnet v. Logan | 1931 | Cost basis must be recovered before taxpayer realizes any taxable income |
| Stromberg v. California | 1931 | constitutionality of California red flag-banning statute, freedom of symbolic speech |
| McBoyle v. United States | 1931 | National Motor Vehicle Theft Act held not to apply to aircraft |
| United States v. Sprague | 1931 | Tenth Amendment |
| Lucas v. Earl | 1930 | origin of Assignment of income doctrine, contract to divide income between husband and wife |
| Old Colony Trust Co. v. Commissioner | 1929 | third-party payment of income tax, effect of Revenue Act of 1926 |
| Pocket Veto Case | 1929 | Court: Supreme Court of Washington constitutionality of the pocket veto |
| United States v. Schwimmer | 1929 | denial of naturalization to a pacifist, overruled by Girouard v. United States (1946) |
| Taft v. Bowers | 1929 | taxation of a gift of shares of stock under the Sixteenth Amendment (Chief Justice Taft did not participate) |
| Wisconsin v. Illinois | 1930 | federal power over state interests, Chicago Sanitary Canal |
| Olmstead v. United States | 1928 | admissibility of illegally-obtained phone wiretaps as evidence |
| Black and White Taxicab Co. v. Brown and Yellow Taxicab Co. | 1928 | what law is to be applied when courts sit in diversity jurisdiction |
| Miller v. Schoene | 1928 | Substantive due process, takings clause |
| New Mexico v. Texas | 1927 | determination of the border between New Mexico and Texas |
| Gong Lum v. Rice | 1927 | admission of Chinese girl to school for White children in Mississippi |
| Whitney v. California | 1927 | prosecution of criminal syndicalism |
| Hess v. Pawloski | 1927 | consent to in personam jurisdiction |
| Buck v. Bell | 1927 | compulsory sterilization, eugenics |
| Nixon v. Herndon | 1927 | challenging the white primaries in Texas |