This is a chronological list of cases decided by the United States Supreme Court during the tenure of Chief Justice Frederick Moore Vinson (June 24, 1946 through September 8, 1953).
| Case name | Citation | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| United States v. Carmack | 329 U.S. 230 (1946) | land held by a local government is still subject to eminent domain by the federal government |
| Hickman v. Taylor | 329 U.S. 495 (1947) | work-product doctrine |
| Everson v. Board of Education | 330 U.S. 1 (1947) | First Amendment, establishment of religion |
| U.S. Public Workers v. Mitchell | 330 U.S. 75 (1947) | Hatch Act of 1940 |
| United States v. United Mine Workers | 330 U.S. 258 (1947) | injunction against a strike action |
| Crane v. Commissioner | 331 U.S. 1 (1947) | determination of basis of property secured by a nonrecourse mortgage |
| Adamson v. California | 332 U.S. 46 (1947) | Fifth Amendment, incorporation |
| International Salt Co. v. United States | 332 U.S. 392 (1947) | tying arrangements under the Sherman Act |
| Cox v. United States | 332 U.S. 442 (1947) | scope of review for Jehovah's Witness classified as conscientious objector |
| Sipuel v. Board of Regents of Univ. of Okla. | 332 U.S. 631 (1948) | Fourteenth Amendment, segregation |
| Oyama v. California | 332 U.S. 633 (1948) | California Alien Land Laws, equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment |
| Woods v. Cloyd W. Miller Co. | 333 U.S. 138 (1948) | War Powers Clause |
| McCollum v. Board of Education | 333 U.S. 203 (1948) | Separation of church and state, constitutionality of released time in public schools |
| Shelley v. Kraemer | 334 U.S. 1 (1948) | equal protection, racial covenants |
| United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. | 334 U.S. 131 (1948) | Hollywood studios monopoly |
| Takahashi v. Fish and Game Commission | 334 U.S. 410 (1948) | statute denying commercial fishing licenses to aliens ineligible for citizenship held to violate Equal Protection Clause |
| Saia v. People of the State of New York | 334 U.S. 558 (1948) | ordinance which prohibited the use of sound amplification devices except with permission of the Chief of Police violates First Amendment |
| United States v. National City Lines Inc. | 334 U.S. 573 (1948) | General Motors streetcar conspiracy |
| United States v. Congress of Industrial Organizations | 335 U.S. 106 (1948) | Labor union's publication of statement urging members to vote for a certain candidate for Congress did not violate Taft-Hartley Act |
| Goesaert v. Cleary | 335 U.S. 464 (1948) | Upholding employment restrictions against female bartenders |
| H.P. Hood & Sons v. Du Mond | 336 U.S. 525 (1949) | Dormant Commerce Clause |
| Terminiello v. Chicago | 337 U.S. 1 (1949) | free speech and public order |
| United States v. Interstate Commerce Commission | 337 U.S. 426 (1949) | justiciability |
| Wheeling Steel Corp. v. Glander | 337 U.S. 562 (1949) | Fourteenth Amendment due process, Commerce Clause |
| Wolf v. Colorado | 338 U.S. 25 (1949) | Fourteenth Amendment, state court, evidence from unreasonable search and seizure |
| Hirota v. MacArthur | 338 U.S. 197 (1948) | the United States federal courts lacked the authority to review judgments of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East |
| Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. | 339 U.S. 306 (1950) | proper legal notice in the settlement of a trust |
| Graver Tank & Manufacturing Co. v. Linde Air Products Co. | 339 U.S. 605 (1950) | patent law, doctrine of equivalents |
| Sweatt v. Painter | 339 U.S. 629 (1950) | segregation, separate but equal |
| McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents | 339 U.S. 637 (1950) | Fourteenth Amendment, segregation |
| Johnson v. Eisenträger | 339 U.S. 763 (1950) | jurisdiction of U.S. civilian courts over nonresident enemy aliens; habeas corpus |
| Henderson v. United States | 339 U.S. 816 (1950) | ending segregation in railroad dining cars |
| Feres v. United States | 340 U.S. 135 (1950) | Military exception to government liability under the Federal Tort Claims Act |
| Kiefer-Stewart Co. v. Seagram & Sons, Inc. | 340 U.S. 211 (1951) | agreement among competitors in interstate commerce to fix maximum resale prices of their products violates the Sherman Act |
| Kunz v. New York | 340 U.S. 290 (1951) | free speech restrictions must be "narrowly tailored" |
| Feiner v. New York | 340 U.S. 315 (1951) | Free speech v. public safety--decided same day as Kunz v. New York |
| Dean Milk Co. v. City of Madison, Wisconsin | 340 U.S. 349 (1951) | Dormant Commerce Clause |
| Universal Camera Corp. v. NLRB | 340 U.S. 474 (1951) | judicial review of agency decisions |
| Canton Railroad Company v. Rogan | 340 U.S. 511 (1951) | Maryland's franchise tax on imported and exported goods held not to violate the Import-Export Clause of the United States Constitution |
| Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath | 341 U.S. 123 (1951) | freedom of association |
| Dennis v. United States | 341 U.S. 494 (1951) | First Amendment and the Smith Act |
| Stack v. Boyle | 342 U.S. 1 (1951) | defines excessive bail |
| Rochin v. California | 342 U.S. 165 (1952) | restriction of police power |
| Morissette v. United States | 342 U.S. 246 (1952) | strict liability offenses |
| Dice v. Akron, Canton & Youngstown R. Co. | 342 U.S. 359 (1952) | reverse Erie doctrine, federal standard binding on state court |
| Perkins v. Benguet Mining Co. | 342 U.S. 437 (1952) | general personal jurisdiction over a business that was temporarily based in the court's jurisdiction |
| Frisbie v. Collins | 342 U.S. 519 (1952) | kidnapping of fugitives by state officials is constitutional |
| Ray v. Blair | 343 U.S. 214 (1952) | state rights in the electoral college |
| Beauharnais v. Illinois | 343 U.S. 250 (1952) | First Amendment and "group libel" |
| Zorach v. Clauson | 343 U.S. 306 (1952) | release time programs |
| Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia v. Pollak | 343 U.S. 451 (1952) | First and Fifth Amendment and street car playing music |
| Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson | 343 U.S. 495 (1952) | First Amendment and the censorship of films |
| Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer | 343 U.S. 579 (1952) | presidential power to seize steel mills during strike to ensure wartime production |
| Kawakita v. United States | 343 U.S. 717 (1952) | treason accusation against a person with dual citizenship. |
| Arrowsmith v. Commissioner | 344 U.S. 6 (1952) | Taxpayers classified a payment as an ordinary business loss, which would allow them to take a greater deduction for the loss than would be permitted for a capital loss |
| United States v. Reynolds | 345 U.S. 1 (1953) | State secrets privilege |
| Fowler v. Rhode Island | 345 U.S. 67 (1953) | ordinance construed to penalize a minister of Jehovah's Witnesses for preaching at a peaceful religious meeting in a public park unconstitutional |
| Poulos v. New Hampshire | 345 U.S. 395 (1953) | religious meetings and the Free Exercise Clause |
| Securities and Exchange Commission v. Ralston Purina Co. | 346 U.S. 119 (1953) | a corporation offering "key employees" stock shares is still subject to Section 4(1) of the Securities Act of 1933 |
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