| Case name |
Citation |
Summary |
| Londoner v. City and County of Denver |
1908 |
role of due process in administrative rulemaking |
| Bobbs-Merrill Co. v. Straus |
1908 |
First-sale doctrine, copyright holder cannot control resale prices by use of licenses |
| Ware & Leland v. Mobile County |
1908 |
contracts for the sales of cotton for future delivery that do not oblige interstate shipments are not subjects of interstate commerce, and are taxable by states |
| Ex parte Young |
1908 |
exception to sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment |
| White-Smith Music Publishing Company v. Apollo Company |
1908 |
manufacturers of player pianos need not pay royalties to copyright holders of music |
| Muller v. Oregon |
1908 |
protective labor laws, protection of women |
| Loewe v. Lawlor |
1908 |
Sherman Antitrust Act applied against labor union boycott |
| Adair v. United States |
1908 |
"Yellow Dog contract" |
| United States v. Shipp |
1906 |
Only criminal trial in the court's history. Lynching. |
| Northwestern National Life Insurance Co. v. Riggs |
1906 |
upheld power of states to regulate insurance contracts against Fourteenth Amendment challenge |
| Chicago Board of Trade v. Christie Grain |
1905 |
upholding power of Chicago Board of Trade to regulate futures contracts |
| Harris v. Balk |
1905 |
quasi in rem jurisdiction |
| Lochner v. New York |
1905 |
freedom of contract, substantive due process |
| Rasmussen v. United States |
1905 |
sometimes considered one of the Insular Cases |
| Northern Securities Co. v. United States |
1904 |
Antitrust, application of the Sherman Antitrust Act |
| Gonzales v. Williams |
1904 |
Puerto Ricans and illegal aliens |
| Dorr v. United States |
1904 |
sometimes considered one of the Insular Cases |
| Kepner v. United States |
1904 |
sometimes considered one of the Insular Cases |
| Missouri, Kansas, & Texas Railway Company of Texas v. Clay May |
1904 |
14th Amendment permits law which penalizes railroads for allowing weeds to grow |
| Hawaii v. Manikichi |
1903 |
sometimes considered one of the Insular Cases |