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Landmark Supreme Court cases

Order these U.S. Supreme Court decisions by the year they were decided. Place all 31 cards on one timeline, one at a time — three wrong guesses and the run is over.

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How Landmark Supreme Court cases is played

Every card in this deck carries a hidden value on the same scale — release years and dates — and the run is one long sorting problem. The first card is dealt face up. Each card after it goes into the gap where you think it belongs, and the value only shows once it lands. Get it wrong three times and the run ends with whatever you had placed.

This deck can also be shuffled together with any other deck measured in release years and dates — tick several on the deck tree to build one longer timeline out of them.

What's in the deck

28 of the 31 cards you could be dealt, plus 3 more. The values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Marbury v. Madison Established judicial review
  • McCulloch v. Maryland Affirmed federal implied powers
  • Gibbons v. Ogden Broadened federal commerce power
  • Dred Scott v. Sandford Denied citizenship to enslaved people
  • Plessy v. Ferguson Upheld separate but equal
  • Lochner v. New York Struck a law on freedom of contract
  • Schenck v. United States Set the clear and present danger test
  • Gitlow v. New York Applied free speech to the states
  • Wickard v. Filburn Stretched federal commerce power
  • Korematsu v. United States Upheld Japanese American internment
  • Brown v. Board of Education Desegregated public schools
  • Mapp v. Ohio Applied the exclusionary rule
  • Gideon v. Wainwright Guaranteed the right to counsel
  • Griswold v. Connecticut Recognized a right to privacy
  • Miranda v. Arizona Required warning of rights on arrest
  • Loving v. Virginia Struck down interracial marriage bans
  • Terry v. Ohio Allowed stop and frisk
  • Tinker v. Des Moines Protected student free speech
  • New York Times Co. v. United States Blocked prior restraint of the press
  • United States v. Nixon Limited executive privilege
  • Regents v. Bakke Reshaped affirmative action
  • Texas v. Johnson Protected flag burning as speech
  • Planned Parenthood v. Casey Reaffirmed abortion rights
  • Bush v. Gore Settled the presidential election
  • Lawrence v. Texas Struck down sodomy laws
  • District of Columbia v. Heller Affirmed an individual right to arms
  • Citizens United v. FEC Freed corporate campaign spending
  • Shelby County v. Holder Weakened the Voting Rights Act

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