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Case name | Citation | Summary |
Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education | 1899 | segregation in public schools |
Malony v. Adsit | 1899 | trial judge must authenticate bill of exceptions |
Brown v. New Jersey | 1899 | use of a struck jury |
Williams v. Mississippi | 1898 | literacy tests |
Hawker v. New York | 1898 | character and doctor’s licenses |
United States v. Wong Kim Ark | 1898 | citizenship and race |
Holden v. Hardy | 1898 | working hours of miners |
Barrett v. United States | 1898 | South Carolina had not been subdivided into separate federal judicial districts |
Interstate Commerce Commission v. Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway Co. | 1897 | powers of an administrative agency |
United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Association | 1897 | railroads and rate fixing |
United States v. Ball | 1896 | double jeopardy |
Plessy v. Ferguson | 1896 | segregation; "separate but equal" |
Talton v. Mayes | 1896 | individual rights in U.S. Constitution not applicable to tribal governments |
Geer v. Connecticut | 1896 | states owned the wild animals within their borders and can strictly regulate their management and harvest |
Rosen v. United States | 1896 | defendant's ability to inspect evidence at obscenity trial overcame objection that indictment was too vague |
Hilton v. Guyot | 1895 | doctrine of comity |
Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. | 1895 | income tax and tariffs |
In re Debs | 1895 | strikes and interstate commerce |
Coffin v. United States | 1895 | the presumption of innocence |
Sparf v. United States | 1895 | jury instructions |