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Barron v. Baltimore 

Barron v. Baltimore John Barron owned a wharf in Baltimore. The wharf became virtually worthless after city construction projects made the water surrounding it too shallow for most ships. Barron clai . . .

Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge 

Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge One of the classic cases of the Taney Court, Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge helped settle the boundaries between vested rights based on charters and contr . . .

Cherokee Nation v. Georgia 

Cherokee Nation v. Georgia Cherokee Nation v. Georgia marked the beginning of a tragedy of national scale, leading to the forced removal of hundreds of thousands of Native Americans from the eastern . . .

Gibbons v. Ogden 

Gibbons v. Ogden In 1808 the New York legislature granted Robert R. Livingston and Robert Fulton a thirty-year monopoly over steamboat transportation on all state waters and all steamboat transportat . . .

Ogden v. Saunders 

Ogden v. Saunders Ogden v. Saunders was the only constitutional law case of Chief Justice Marshall's career in which he dissented. Oddly, his dissent left the Court without any leadership, and each . . .

Prigg v. Pennsylvania 

Prigg v. Pennsylvania In 1837 Edward Prigg and three other men seized as fugitive slaves Margaret Morgan and her children, who were living in Pennsylvania. Prigg and the others brought the blacks bac . . .

Swift v. Tyson 

Swift v. Tyson In Swift v. Tyson Justice Story clarified the use of state precedents in commercial litigation in federal courts. Story's opinion was the governing rule until overturned by Erie Railro . . .

United States v. Libellants and Claimants of the Schooner Amistad 

United States v. Libellants and Claimants of the Schooner Amistad Also known as The Amistad, 40 U.S. 518 (15 Pet. 518) (1841) . . .

Willson v. Black Bird Creek Marsh Co. 

Willson v. Black Bird Creek Marsh Co. In 1822 Delaware authorized Black Bird Creek Marsh Company to construct a dam across Black Bird Creek, which obstructed navigation there. Thompson Willson, who h . . .

Worcester v. Georgia 

Worcester v. Georgia In 1831 Georgia authorities arrested Samuel A. Worcester, a Congregational minister, for preaching on Cherokee lands without first obtaining a state license to reside on those la . . .