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- Marbury v. Madison5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137 (1803)
- McCulloch v. Maryland17 U.S. (4 Wheat.) 316 (1819)
- Gibbons v. Ogden22 U.S. (9 Wheat.) 1 (1824)
- Dred Scott v. Sandford60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1857)
- Plessy v. Ferguson163 U.S. 537 (1896)
- Brown v. Board of Education347 U.S. 483 (1954)
- Gideon v. Wainwright372 U.S. 335 (1963)
- Miranda v. Arizona384 U.S. 436 (1966)
- Mapp v. Ohio367 U.S. 643 (1961)
- Terry v. Ohio392 U.S. 1 (1968)