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| Case name | Citation | Summary |
| Crandall v. Nevada | 1868 | Right to travel bars taxation of parties leaving a state |
| Pervear v. Massachusetts | 1866 | upholding harsh penalty for violation of state liquor laws, and declining to apply Eighth Amendment to the states |
| Mississippi v. Johnson | 1867 | power of the Supreme Court to constitutionally issue an injunction directed at the President |
| Ex parte Garland | 1866 | retroactive civil disability for former Confederate officers |
| Ex parte Milligan | 1866 | habeas corpus, military tribunals |
| Prize Cases | 1863 | presidential powers in wartime |
| Ableman v. Booth | 1859 | The contradiction of Federal law by States |
| Dred Scott v. Sandford | 1857 | slavery, the definition of citizenship |
| Cooley v. Board of Wardens | 1852 | pilotage laws under the Commerce Clause |
| Strader v. Graham | 1851 | slavery and the application of state laws thereof. |
| Hotchkiss v. Greenwood | 1850 | Early standard for non-obviousness in United States patent law |
| Sheldon v. Sill | 1850 | Congressional control of the jurisdiction of the lower federal courts |
| Passenger Cases | 1849 | taxation of immigrants, constitutionality of state laws regarding foreign commerce |
| Luther v. Borden | 1849 | guarantee clause of Article Four of the United States Constitution |
| Prigg v. Pennsylvania | 1842 | runaway slaves |
| Swift v. Tyson | 1842 | Federal common law in diversity jurisdiction cases, later overturned |
| The Amistad | 1841 | slave trade and slave ownership |
| Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge | 1837 | Contract Clause of the Constitution |
| United States v. Segui | 1836 | upholding the validity of a Spanish land grant in Florida |
| Wheaton v. Peters | 1834 | copyright perpetuity; common law copyright |