1930–1939
| Case name | Citation | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Beginning of active duty of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, February 24, 1930 | ||
| Lucas v. Earl | 281 U.S. 111 (1930) | origin of Assignment of income doctrine, contract to divide income between husband and wife |
| United States v. Sprague | 282 U.S. 716 (1931) | Tenth Amendment |
| McBoyle v. United States | 283 U.S. 25 (1931) | National Motor Vehicle Theft Act held not to apply to aircraft |
| Stromberg v. California | 283 U.S. 359 (1931) | constitutionality of California red flag-banning statute, freedom of symbolic speech |
| Burnet v. Logan | 283 U.S. 404 (1931) | Cost basis must be recovered before taxpayer realizes any taxable income |
| Near v. Minnesota | 283 U.S. 697 (1931) | freedom of speech, prior restraints |
| United States v. Kirby Lumber Co. | 284 U.S. 1 (1931) | taxation of gain on reduction of debt |
| Blackmer v. United States | 284 U.S. 421 (1932) | International law and 5th Amendment allowed U.S. government to retain jurisdiction over its citizens abroad |
| Blockburger v. United States | 284 U.S. 299 (1932) | standard for double jeopardy |
| Crowell v. Benson | 285 U.S. 22 (1932) | upholding adjudication of private rights by an administrative agency, not an Article III court |
| New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann | 285 U.S. 262 (1932) | substantive due process |
| Nixon v. Condon | 286 U.S. 73 (1932) | White primaries in Texas violated Equal Protection Clause |
| North American Oil Consolidated v. Burnet | 286 U.S. 417 (1932) | claim of right doctrine in U.S. tax law |
| Powell v. Alabama | 287 U.S. 45 (1932) | access to counsel |
| Sorrells v. United States | 287 U.S. 435 (1932) | Entrapment recognized as a valid defense |
| Home Building & Loan Association v. Blaisdell | 290 U.S. 398 (1934) | Minnesota's suspension of creditor's remedies did not violate the Contract Clause |
| Burroughs v. United States | 290 U.S. 534 (1934) | upholding the constitutionality of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act |
| Nebbia v. New York | 291 U.S. 502 (1934) | Substantive Due Process, economic regulation |
| Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan | 293 U.S. 388 (1935) | delegation of authority, New Deal |
| Gregory v. Helvering | 293 U.S. 465 (1935) | tax law, business purpose doctrine |
| Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States | 295 U.S. 495 (1935) | interstate commerce, New Deal |
| Humphrey's Executor v. United States | 295 U.S. 602 (1935) | administrative action, separation of powers |
| Pacific States Box & Basket Co. v. White | 296 U.S. 176 (1935) | early case on standard of review for regulations |
| Fox Film Corp. v. Muller | 296 U.S. 207 (1935) | contract dispute, "adequate and independent state ground" |
| United States v. Constantine | 296 U.S. 287 (1935) | taxation of liquor |
| United States v. Butler | 297 U.S. 1 (1936) | Taxation power, Tenth Amendment |
| Grosjean v. American Press Co. | 297 U.S. 233 (1936) | Freedom of the press, taxation of newspapers |
| Brown v. Mississippi | 297 U.S. 278 (1936) | coerced confessions by means of violence |
| Wallace v. Cutten | 298 U.S. 229 (1936) | application of the Grain Futures Act |
| Valentine v. United States | 299 U.S. 5 (1936) | extradition powers of the executive branch |
| Bourdieu v. Pacific Western Oil Co. | 299 U.S. 65 (1936) | U.S. government as an indispensable party |
| United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. | 299 U.S. 304 (1936) | export restrictions, Presidential power over international commerce |
| DeJonge v. Oregon | 299 U.S. 353 (1937) | 14th Amendment applied to freedom of assembly |
| West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish | 300 U.S. 379 (1937) | freedom of contract, minimum wage laws; “the switch in time that saved nine” |
| National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation | 301 U.S. 1 (1937) | interstate commerce; another consequence of “the switch in time that saved nine” |
| Steward Machine Company v. Davis | 301 U.S. 548 (1937) | Court upholds the unemployment insurance provisions of the Social Security Act |
| Bogardus v. Commissioner | 302 U.S. 34 (1937) | distinction between taxable compensation and tax-exempt gifts under the Internal Revenue Code |
| Palko v. Connecticut | 302 U.S. 319 (1937) | selective incorporation, double jeopardy |
| Connecticut General Life Insurance Company v. Johnson | 303 U.S. 77 (1938) | |
| Lovell v. City of Griffin | 303 U.S. 444 (1938) | City ordinance requiring official permission to distribute literature held unconstitutionally broad |
| New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co. | 303 U.S. 552 (1938) | safeguard right to boycott and chips away at discriminatory hiring practices against African Americans |
| Hale v. Kentucky | 303 U.S. 613 (1938) | exclusion of African Americans from juries |
| Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins | 304 U.S. 64 (1938) | limiting general federal common law by requiring that state law apply except where federal law exists |
| Hinderlider v. La Plata River & Cherry Creek Ditch | 304 U.S. 92 (1938) | reaffirming existence of federal common law in other cases |
| United States v. Carolene Products Co. | 304 U.S. 144 (1938) | interstate commerce, substantive due process, and (in footnote four) equal protection |
| NLRB v. Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co. | 304 U.S. 333 (1938) | Striking workers continue to be employees within the meaning of the National Labor Relations Act, but use of strikebreakers is permissible |
| Johnson v. Zerbst | 304 U.S. 458 (1938) | Sixth Amendment right to counsel in federal criminal cases |
| Collins v. Yosemite Park & Curry Co. | 304 U.S. 518 (1938) | Twenty-first Amendment and the enforcement of state liquor laws in U.S. national parks |
| Kellogg Co. v. National Biscuit Co. | 305 U.S. 111 (1938) | patent holder has no remedy in unfair competition law against competitor selling similar goods under a non-trademarked name after patent expires—prelude to functionality doctrine |
| Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada | 305 U.S. 337 (1938) | chipping away at separate but equal education |
| United States v. Miller | 307 U.S. 174 (1939) | Second Amendment, right to bear arms |
| Coleman v. Miller | 307 U.S. 433 (1939) | length of time proposed Constitutional amendments remain pending |
| Hague v. CIO | 307 U.S. 496 (1939) | labor unions and freedom of assembly |
| Schneider v. New Jersey | 308 U.S. 147 (1939) | enforcement of littering ordinances and free speech |
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