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| Case name | Citation | Summary |
| Wilkerson v. Utah | 1878 | capital punishment |
| Reynolds v. United States | 1878 | polygamy and freedom of religion |
| City of Elizabeth v. American Nicholson Pavement Co. | 1878 | experimental use exception to the on-sale bar in United States patent law |
| Pennoyer v. Neff | 1877 | bases of personal jurisdiction over defendants |
| Munn v. Illinois | 1876 | corporations and agricultural regulation |
| United States v. Cruikshank | 1875 | application of the First and Second Amendments to the states |
| Totten v. United States | 1875 | jurisdiction over espionage agreements |
| Minor v. Happersett | 1874 | Fourteenth Amendment and the right to vote |
| Bradwell v. State of Illinois | 1873 | equal protection, exclusion of women from employment |
| Slaughterhouse Cases | 1873 | freedom of employment |
| Taylor v. Taintor | 1872 | rights and responsibilities of bail bondsmen |
| United States v. Klein | 1871 | separation of powers |
| Baker v. Morton | 1870 | land claims in the Nebraska Territory |
| Hepburn v. Griswold | 1870 | constitutionality of legal tender laws |
| Paul v. Virginia | 1869 | Privileges & Immunities Clause does not apply to corporations, Commerce Clause does not apply to insurance policies |
| Ex parte Yerger | 1869 | habeas corpus case that became moot when Yerger was released before the court ruling; therefore not actually heard by the Supreme Court |
| Texas v. White | 1869 | constitutionality of state secession |
| Ex parte McCardle | 1868 | congressional power to limit Supreme Court’s appellate jurisdiction |
| United States v. Kirby | 1868 | construction of criminal statutes |
| Georgia v. Stanton | 1867 | power of the Court to rule on constitutionality of Reconstruction Acts; parameters of the Court's jurisdiction |