This is a chronological list of cases decided by the United States Supreme Court during the tenure of Chief Justice William Howard Taft (July 11, 1921 through February 3, 1930).
| Case name | Citation | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| United States v. Phellis | 257 U.S. 156 (1921) | shares in a subsidiary corporation issued to stockholders in the parent corporation considered taxable income |
| Leser v. Garnett | 258 U.S. 130 (1922) | constitutionality of Nineteenth Amendment |
| Balzac v. Porto Rico | 258 U.S. 298 (1922) | sometimes considered one of the Insular Cases |
| United States v. Moreland | 258 U.S. 433 (1922) | Fifth Amendment, hard labor in prison |
| Child Labor Tax Case | 259 U.S. 20 (1922) | docket title Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co., found the Child Labor Tax Law of 1919 was not a valid use of Congress' power under the Taxing and Spending Clause |
| Hill v. Wallace | 259 U.S. 44 (1922) | use of congressional taxing power under the Taxing and Spending Clause; relationship to Commerce Clause |
| Federal Baseball Club v. National League | 259 U.S. 200 (1922) | baseball and antitrust regulation |
| Wyoming v. Colorado | 259 U.S. 419 (1922) | whether Colorado could divert water from the Laramie River, an interstate stream system |
| Takao Ozawa v. United States | 260 U.S. 178 (1922) | naturalization and race (Japanese-American) |
| Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon | 260 U.S. 393 (1922) | Substantive Due Process, Takings clause of the Fifth Amendment |
| Moore v. Dempsey | 261 U.S. 86 (1923) | mob-dominated trials, federal writ of habeas corpus, due process |
| United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind | 261 U.S. 204 (1923) | naturalization and race (Indian-American) |
| Adkins v. Children's Hospital | 261 U.S. 525 (1923) | freedom of contract, minimum wage laws |
| Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. v. United States | 261 U.S. 592 (1923) | creation of implied-in-fact contracts |
| Board of Trade of City of Chicago v. Olsen | 262 U.S. 1 (1923) | constitutionality of the Grain Futures Act under the Commerce Clause |
| Meyer v. Nebraska | 262 U.S. 390 (1923) | constitutionality of law prohibiting teaching of foreign languages; substantive due process |
| Frothingham v. Mellon | 262 U.S. 447 (1923) | rejection of taxpayer standing |
| Rindge Co. v. County of Los Angeles | 262 U.S. 700 (1923) | eminent domain and the building of a scenic road |
| Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co. | 263 U.S. 413 (1923) | review of state court decisions by U.S. District Courts |
| Chung Fook v. White | 264 U.S. 443 (1924) | Interpretation of Immigration Act of 1917; marked end of era of strict plain meaning interpretation of statutes |
| United States v. Ninety-Five Barrels (More or Less) Alleged Apple Cider Vinegar | 265 U.S. 438 (1924) | legality of misleading but factually accurate packaging statements under the Pure Food and Drug Act |
| Carroll v. United States | 267 U.S. 132 (1925) | whether police searches of automobiles without a warrant violate the Fourth Amendment |
| Samuels v. McCurdy | 267 U.S. 188 (1925) | Whether the ban on continued possession of previously legal contraband (alcohol in this case) constitutes an ex post facto law |
| George W. Bush & Sons Co. v. Maloy | 267 U.S. 317 (1925) | Dormant Commerce Clause; states are not permitted to regulate common carriers engaged in interstate commerce on state highways |
| Linder v. United States | 268 U.S. 5 (1925) | prosecution of physicians under the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act |
| Irwin v. Gavit | 268 U.S. 161 (1925) | taxation of income from a trust |
| Pierce v. Society of Sisters | 268 U.S. 510 (1925) | privacy |
| Gitlow v. New York | 268 U.S. 652 (1925) | prosecution of seditious speech |
| Bowers v. Kerbaugh-Empire Co. | 271 U.S. 170 (1926) | taxation of reduced loss on exchanged currency |
| Myers v. United States | 272 U.S. 52 (1926) | Presidential authority to remove executive branch officials |
| Village of Euclid, Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co. | 272 U.S. 365 (1926) | zoning, due process |
| United States v. General Electric Co. | 272 U.S. 476 (1926) | patentee who grants a single license to a competitor to manufacture the patented product may lawfully fix the price at which the licensee may sell the product |
| Farrington v. Tokushige | 273 U.S. 284 (1927) | constitutionality of anti-foreign language statute in the Territory of Hawaii under the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment |
| Nixon v. Herndon | 273 U.S. 536 (1927) | challenging the white primaries in Texas |
| Buck v. Bell | 274 U.S. 200 (1927) | compulsory sterilization, eugenics |
| Hess v. Pawloski | 274 U.S. 352 (1927) | consent to in personam jurisdiction |
| Whitney v. California | 274 U.S. 357 (1927) | prosecution of criminal syndicalism |
| Gong Lum v. Rice | 275 U.S. 78 (1927) | admission of Chinese girl to school for White children in Mississippi |
| New Mexico v. Texas | 275 U.S. 279 (1927) | determination of the border between New Mexico and Texas |
| Miller v. Schoene | 276 U.S. 272 (1928) | Substantive due process, takings clause |
| Black and White Taxicab Co. v. Brown and Yellow Taxicab Co. | 276 U.S. 518 (1928) | what law is to be applied when courts sit in diversity jurisdiction |
| Olmstead v. United States | 277 U.S. 438 (1928) | admissibility of illegally-obtained phone wiretaps as evidence |
| Wisconsin v. Illinois | 278 U.S. 367 (1930) | federal power over state interests, Chicago Sanitary Canal |
| Taft v. Bowers | 278 U.S. 470 (1929) | taxation of a gift of shares of stock under the Sixteenth Amendment (Chief Justice Taft did not participate) |
| United States v. Schwimmer | 279 U.S. 644 (1929) | denial of naturalization to a pacifist, overruled by Girouard v. United States (1946) |
| Pocket Veto Case | 279 U.S. 655 (1929) | constitutionality of the pocket veto |
| Old Colony Trust Co. v. Commissioner | 279 U.S. 716 (1929) | third-party payment of income tax, effect of Revenue Act of 1926 |
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