Landmark Supreme Court Cases

Question 1

What did Baker Vs Carr Establish?

Answer 1

-One person, one vote. (Each legislative district must have the same number of people)

-Redistricting Cases can be heard by Federal Courts

Question 2

Brown Vs Board of Education of Topeka…what did it Establish?

Answer 2

It outlawed racial segregation in public education facilities

Question 3

Gideon Vs Wainright

Answer 3

It established the right to free legal counsel

Question 4

Korematsu Vs U.S.
What did it Establish?

Answer 4

It allowed the government to place the Japanese Americans in internment camps during WW2

Question 5

Mapp Vs Ohio

Answer 5

Evidence gathered in violation of the fourth amendment can not be used

Question 6

Marbury Vs Madison (1803)

Answer 6

Established Judicial Review

Question 7

McCulloch Vs Madison.
What did it Establish?

Answer 7

Established the authority of National Law over State Law
(Specifically power to Establish a National Bank)

Question 8

Miranda Vs Arizona

Answer 8

The fifth amendment requires arrested to be told their legal rights.

Question 9

Plessy Vs Ferguson

Answer 9

Established Legality of Separate but Equal racial segregation public education facilities. (Overturned later by Brown Vs Board of Education)

Question 10

Regents of U of C Vs Bakke

Answer 10

Banned quota systems in the college admissions process.

Question 11

Roe Vs Wade

Answer 11

Overturned State Laws Prohibiting Abortion (overturned in 2022)

Question 12

Scott Vs Sanford (Dred Scott Case)

Answer 12

African Americans could never be granted U.S citizenship
(later overturned by the fourteenth amendment)