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Stack #4678523
| Chief Justice | Dates | Important Case(s) |
|---|---|---|
| John Jay | 1789-1795 | Chisholm v. Georgia (1793) - federal power over states |
| John Marshall | 1801-1835 | Marbury v. Madison (1803) , McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) - implied power, Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) - interstate commerce |
| Robert Taney | 1836-1864 | Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) |
| Salmon Chase | 1964-1873 | Texas v. White (1869) - states can't secede |
| Morrison Waite | 1874-1888 | United States v. Cruikshank (1876) - after the Colfax Massacre; ruled that States are in charge of enforcing civil rights |
| Melville Fuller | 1888-1910 | Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) |
| Edward Douglass White | 1910-1921 | Standard Oil Co. v. United States (1911) - ruled against Rockefeller Oil Monopoly |
| William Howard Taft | 1921-1930 | Olmstead v. U.S. (1928) - wiretapping does not require warrant |
| Harlan Stone | 1941-1946 | Korematsu v. United States (1944) |
| Earl Warren | 1953-1969 | Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Miranda v. Arizona (1966) |
| Warren Burger | 1969-1986 | Roe v. Wade (1973), United States v. Nixon (1974) - president does not have executive priviledge |
| John Roberts | 2005 - now | Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) |