| Case name |
Citation |
Summary |
| Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. v. Public Service Commission |
1980 |
commercial speech—energy company advertising |
| Consolidated Edison Co. v. Public Service Commission |
1980 |
freedom of speech (companies including information inserts with bills) |
| Diamond v. Chakrabarty |
1980 |
patentability of genetically modified organisms |
| Agins v. City of Tiburon |
1980 |
zoning and regulatory takings |
| Jenkins v. Anderson |
1980 |
criminal defendant's silence prior to arrest may be held against him in court |
| Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins |
1980 |
federalism, freedom of speech |
| Walker v. Armco Steel Corp. |
1980 |
Erie Doctrine – state statute of limitations vs. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure |
| United States V. Mendenhall |
1980 |
police may obtain consent to detain a person and search them under the Fourth Amendment |
| Godfrey v. Georgia |
1980 |
Eighth Amendment overbreadth of an aggravating circumstance required for imposing the death penalty |
| Rhode Island v. Innis |
1980 |
meaning of "interrogation" under Miranda v. Arizona |
| Mobile v. Bolden |
1980 |
At-Large voting system and the Fifteenth Amendment |
| Owen v. City of Independence |
1980 |
municipal liability under the Civil Rights Act |
| Payton v. New York |
1980 |
Fourth Amendment prohibits warrantless entry into a home to effect a routine felony arrest |
| Rummel v. Estelle |
1980 |
life in prison with possibility of parole is not cruel and unusual punishment for a habitual offender convicted of passing bad checks |
| Village of Schaumburg v. Citizens for a Better Environment |
1980 |
First Amendment protection for door-to-door soliciting |
| World-Wide Volkswagen Corp v. Woodson |
1980 |
Personal jurisdiction, strict liability |
| Vance v. Terrazas |
1980 |
a United States citizen cannot have his or her U.S. citizenship taken away without proof, by a preponderance of evidence, that he or she acted with an intention to relinquish that citizenship. |
| Goldwater v. Carter |
1979 |
justiciability, political question doctrine |
| Bellotti v. Baird |
1979 |
parental notification requirements for abortion are constitutional with a judicial bypass provision |
| United Steel Workers of America v. Weber |
1979 |
regarding affirmative action, reverse discrimination |