Lists of United States Supreme Court cases

This page serves as an index of lists of United States Supreme Court cases. The United States Supreme Court is the highest federal court of the United States.

Court historians and other legal scholars consider each chief justice who presides over the Supreme Court of the United States to be the head of an era of the Court.^[1] These lists are sorted chronologically by chief justice and include most major cases decided by the court.

Jay, Rutledge, and Ellsworth Courts (October 19, 1789 – December 15, 1800)
Marshall Court (February 4, 1801 – July 6, 1835)
Taney Court (March 28, 1836 – October 12, 1864)
Chase Court (December 15, 1864 – May 7, 1873)
Waite Court (March 4, 1874 – March 23, 1888)
Fuller Court (October 8, 1888 – July 4, 1910)
White Court (December 19, 1910 – May 19, 1921)
Taft Court (July 11, 1921 – February 3, 1930)
Hughes Court (February 24, 1930 – June 30, 1941)
Stone Court (July 3, 1941 – April 22, 1946)
Vinson Court (June 24, 1946 – September 8, 1953)
Warren Court (October 5, 1953 – June 23, 1969)
Burger Court (June 23, 1969 – September 26, 1986)
Rehnquist Court (September 26, 1986 – September 3, 2005)
Roberts Court (September 29, 2005 – present)

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Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States are officially published in the United States Reports.^[2]

Lists of United States Supreme Court cases by volume

These lists contain detailed tables about each term since 1999, including which justices filed the court's opinion, dissenting and concurring opinions in each case, and information about justices joining opinions. The tables conclude with term statistics and concordance data.

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List of pending United States Supreme Court cases
List of landmark court decisions in the United States (most frequently from the Supreme Court)

[1]
Clare Cushman, Supreme Court Justices: Illustrated Biographies (2013), p. xvii: "Often, the Supreme Court of a particular era is identified by the name of the chief justice: the Marshall Court, the Taft Court, the Warren Court, the Rehnquist Court, the Roberts Court".
[2]
Tony Mauro, Illustrated Great Decisions of the Supreme Court (2005), p. 391.