Timeline
| Year | Date | Case | Cite | Vote | Holding |
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| 1934 | Jan 8 | Home Building & Loan Association v. Blaisdell | 290 U.S. 398 (1934) | 5–4 | Minnesota's suspension of creditor's remedies constitutional |
| Mar 5 | Nebbia v. New York | 291 U.S. 502 (1934) | 5–4 | New York's regulation of milk prices constitutional | |
| 1935 | Jan 7 | Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan | 293 U.S. 388 (1935) | 8–1 | National Industrial Recovery Act, §9(c) unconstitutional |
| Feb 18 | Norman v. Baltimore & Ohio R. Co. | 294 U.S. 240 (1935) | 5–4 | Gold Clause Cases: Congressional abrogation of contractual gold payment clauses constitutional |
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| Nortz v. United States | 294 U.S. 317 (1935) | 5–4 | |||
| Perry v. United States | 294 U.S. 330 (1935) | 5–4 | |||
| May 6 | Railroad Retirement Bd. v. Alton R. Co. | 295 U.S. 330 (1935) | 5–4 | Railroad Retirement Act unconstitutional | |
| May 27 | Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States | 295 U.S. 495 (1935) | 9–0 | National Industrial Recovery Act unconstitutional | |
| Louisville Joint Stock Land Bank v. Radford | 295 U.S. 555 (1935) | 9–0 | Frazier-Lemke Act unconstitutional | ||
| Humphrey's Executor v. United States | 295 U.S. 602 (1935) | 9–0 | President may not remove FTC commissioner without cause | ||
| 1936 | Jan 6 | United States v. Butler | 297 U.S. 1 (1936) | 6–3 | Agricultural Adjustment Act unconstitutional |
| Feb 17 | Ashwander v. TVA | 297 U.S. 288 (1936) | 8–1 | Tennessee Valley Authority constitutional | |
| Apr 6 | Jones v. SEC | 298 U.S. 1 (1936) | 6–3 | SEC rebuked for "Star Chamber" abuses | |
| May 18 | Carter v. Carter Coal Company | 298 U.S. 238 (1936) | 5–4 | Bituminous Coal Conservation Act of 1935 unconstitutional | |
| May 25 | Ashton v. Cameron County Water Improvement Dist. No. 1 | 298 U.S. 513 (1936) | 5–4 | Municipal Bankruptcy Act of 1934 ruled unconstitutional | |
| June 1 | Morehead v. New York ex rel. Tipaldo | 298 U.S. 587 (1936) | 5–4 | New York's minimum wage law unconstitutional | |
| Nov 3 | Roosevelt electoral landslide ("As Maine goes, so goes Vermont" - James Farley) | ||||
| Dec 16 | Oral arguments heard on West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish | ||||
| Dec 17 | Associate Justice Owen Roberts indicates his vote to overturn Adkins v. Children's Hospital, upholding Washington state's minimum wage statute contested in Parrish |
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| 1937 | Feb 5 | Final conference vote on West Coast Hotel | |||
| Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937 ("JPRB37") announced | |||||
| Feb 8 | Supreme Court begins hearing oral arguments on Wagner Act cases | ||||
| Mar 9 | "Fireside chat" regarding national reaction to JPRB37 | ||||
| Mar 29 | West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish | 300 U.S. 379 (1937) | 5–4 | Washington state's minimum wage law constitutional | |
| Wright v. Vinton Branch | 300 U.S. 440 (1937) | 9–0 | New Frazier-Lemke Act constitutional | ||
| Virginian Railway Co. v. Railway Employees | 300 U.S. 515 (1937) | 9–0 | Railway Labor Act constitutional | ||
| Apr 12 | NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. | 301 U.S. 1 (1937) | 5–4 | National Labor Relations Act constitutional | |
| NLRB v. Fruehauf Trailer Co. | 301 U.S. 49 (1937) | 5–4 | |||
| NLRB v. Friedman-Harry Marks Clothing Co. | 301 U.S. 58 (1937) | 5–4 | |||
| Associated Press v. NLRB | 301 U.S. 103 (1937) | 5–4 | |||
| Washington Coach Co. v. NLRB | 301 U.S. 142 (1937) | 5–4 | |||
| May 18 | "Horseman" Willis Van Devanter announces his intent to retire | ||||
| May 24 | Steward Machine Company v. Davis | 301 U.S. 548 (1937) | 5–4 | Social Security tax constitutional | |
| Helvering v. Davis | 301 U.S. 619 (1937) | 5–4 | |||
| Jun 2 | Van Devanter retires | ||||
| Jul 14 | Senate Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson dies | ||||
| Jul 22 | JPRB37 referred back to committee by a vote of 70–20 to strip "court packing" provisions | ||||
| Aug 19 | Senator Hugo Black sworn in as Associate Justice | ||||
Read more about this topic: Judicial Procedures Reform Bill Of 1937