| Case name |
Citation |
Summary |
| Schenck v. United States |
1919 |
freedom of speech, “clear and present danger”, “shouting fire in a crowded theater” |
| International News Service v. Associated Press |
1918 |
property rights in news |
| Hammer v. Dagenhart |
1918 |
Congressional power to regulate child labor under the Commerce Clause |
| Chicago Board of Trade v. United States |
1918 |
Rules of a commodities exchange examined under rule of reason |
| Buchanan v. Warley |
1917 |
constitutionality of local ordinance compelling racial segregation of residential housing |
| Adams v. Tanner |
1917 |
Substantive due process, state's prohibition of employment agencies was unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment |
| Bunting v. Oregon |
1917 |
Labor law, ten-hour workday |
| Caminetti v. United States |
1917 |
Mann Act applies to consensual extramarital sex |
| American Well Works Co. v. Layne & Bowler Co. |
1916 |
scope of federal question jurisdiction in patent law case |
| United States v. Oppenheimer |
1916 |
doctrine of res judicata applies to criminal cases |
| United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola |
1916 |
case brought against Coca-Cola under the Pure Food and Drug Act |
| Georgia, Florida, & Alabama Railway Co. v. Blish Milling Co. |
1916 |
responsibilities of parties under a bill of lading |
| Stanton v. Baltic Mining Co. |
1916 |
power to tax income under the Sixteenth Amendment |
| Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad |
1916 |
power to tax income under the Sixteenth Amendment |
| Bi-Metallic Investment Co. v. State Board of Equalization |
1915 |
denial of due process procedural protections for legislative and rulemaking acts, as opposed to adjudicatory proceedings |
| Hadacheck v. Sebastian |
1915 |
municipal regulation of land use |
| Guinn v. United States |
1915 |
constitutionality of Oklahoma's "grandfather law" used to disenfranchise African-American voters |
| Mutual Film Corporation v. Industrial Commission of Ohio |
1915 |
free speech and the censorship of motion pictures |
| Burdick v. United States |
1915 |
Legal effect of a pardon |
| Coppage v. Kansas |
1915 |
Economic due process and yellow-dog contracts |