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U.S. Court Cases: Crucial Decisions That Have Shaped the Nation
A comprehensive collection of essays covering nearly 1,000 rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court and other federal and state courts.
U.S. Court Cases, Third Edition offers students and researchers insightful analysis and background information about landmark court cases that have shaped, and continue to reshape America. This set makes information about individual court cases easily accessible to students, teachers, and general readers and explores how the decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court and other federal and state courts have influenced American history and modern-day life.
This new edition adds coverage of important cases decided in the fifteen years since the last edition—Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (eliminated the constitutional right to abortion), Obergefell v. Hodges (guaranteed the right to marry to same-sex couples), Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College and University of North Carolina (ruled that race-based admissions are unconstitutional), Trump v. United States (codified that the President is immune from prosecution for an official act), and many more.
This edition adds new coverage of older cases that are being used and cited as precedent to justify some of the current Administration's cases that are currently being argued in the courts. Additionally, this set features 11 overview essays that place the cases within broader historical and legal perspectives.
Law and The Courts
This two-volume set opens with a series of overview essays explaining the historical and legal context in which American courts operate. These overviews include essays on the Anglo-American Legal Systems, Law, Justice, Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law, U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, U.S. Judicial System, State and Local Courts, Federal Courts, U.S. Supreme Court, Judicial Review, and the Incorporation Doctrine.
Court Cases
The second and much longer section of the set contains 724 essays on individual court cases, arranged alphabetically under the names by which the cases are best known, such as Brown v. Board of Education, Plessy v. Ferguson, and Roe v. Wade. Each of these clearly-written articles presents uniform top matter that includes a capsule summary of the case’s significance.
Each article features top matter that identifies the courts in which the cases were decided, the cases’ official citation numbers, dates of the ruling, categories of relevant issues, and brief summaries of the cases’ significance. Many articles are followed by Further reading notes, and all articles end with lists of cross-references to other articles on related cases.
In addition to the simple alphabetical arrangement, U.S. Court Cases: Crucial Decisions That Have Shaped the Nation, Third Edition offers several other features to help readers find cases. These include textual cross-references, such as “Dred Scott v. Sandford See Scott v. Sandford; “See also” cross-references at the end of each article; a chronological list of cases; a list of cases by selected categories; and case and general subject indexes. Also, new to the second edition and expanded upon here are three important features: a Timeline of Cases by Year, a List of Cases by Category, and an extensive Glossary.
