This is a chronological list of cases decided by the United States Supreme Court during the tenure of Chief Justice Edward Douglass White (December 19, 1910 through May 19, 1921).
| Case name | Citation | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Weems v. United States | 217 U.S. 349 (1910) | cruel and unusual punishment |
| Muskrat v. United States | 219 U.S. 346 (1911) | Advisory opinion doctrine |
| Flint v. Stone Tracy Co. | 220 U.S. 107 (1911) | constitutionality of corporate income tax |
| United States v. Grimaud | 220 U.S. 506 (1911) | control of forest reserves |
| Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States | 221 U.S. 1 (1910) | dissolving interstate monopolies |
| Dowdell v. United States | 221 U.S. 325 (1911) | sometimes considered one of the Insular Cases |
| Gompers v. Buck's Stove and Range Co. | 221 U.S. 418 (1911) | contempt for violating an injunction against a worker's boycott |
| Hoke v. United States | 227 U.S. 308 (1913) | upheld the Mann Act, but held that Congress could not regulate prostitution |
| Bauer & Cie. v. O'Donnell | 229 U.S. 1 (1913) | extensions of patents by use of licenses, rights of copyright holder regarding “use” of copyrighted works |
| Charlton v. Kelly | 229 U.S. 447 (1913) | procedures to approve extradition of criminal suspect to another country |
| Stratton's Independence, Ltd. v. Howbert | 231 U.S. 399 (1913) | |
| Weeks v. United States | 232 U.S. 383 (1914) | establishment of the exclusionary rule for illegally obtained evidence |
| Ocampo v. United States | 234 U.S. 91 (1914) | sometimes considered one of the Insular Cases |
| Shreveport Rate Case | 234 U.S. 342 (1914) | Commerce clause, regulation of intrastate railroad rates |
| Coppage v. Kansas | 236 U.S. 1 (1915) | Economic due process and yellow-dog contracts |
| Burdick v. United States | 236 U.S. 79 (1915) | Legal effect of a pardon |
| Mutual Film Corporation v. Industrial Commission of Ohio | 236 U.S. 230 (1915) | free speech and the censorship of motion pictures |
| Guinn v. United States | 238 U.S. 347 (1915) | constitutionality of Oklahoma's "grandfather law" used to disenfranchise African-American voters |
| Hadacheck v. Sebastian | 239 U.S. 394 (1915) | municipal regulation of land use |
| Bi-Metallic Investment Co. v. State Board of Equalization | 239 U.S. 441 (1915) | denial of due process procedural protections for legislative and rulemaking acts, as opposed to adjudicatory proceedings |
| Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad | 240 U.S. 1 (1916) | power to tax income under the Sixteenth Amendment |
| Stanton v. Baltic Mining Co. | 240 U.S. 103 (1916) | power to tax income under the Sixteenth Amendment |
| Georgia, Florida, & Alabama Railway Co. v. Blish Milling Co. | 241 U.S. 190 (1916) | responsibilities of parties under a bill of lading |
| United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola | 241 U.S. 265 (1916) | case brought against Coca-Cola under the Pure Food and Drug Act |
| United States v. Oppenheimer | 242 U.S. 85 (1916) | doctrine of res judicata applies to criminal cases |
| American Well Works Co. v. Layne & Bowler Co. | 241 U.S. 257 (1916) | scope of federal question jurisdiction in patent law case |
| Caminetti v. United States | 242 U.S. 470 (1917) | Mann Act applies to consensual extramarital sex |
| Bunting v. Oregon | 243 U.S. 426 (1917) | Labor law, ten-hour workday |
| Adams v. Tanner | 244 U.S. 590 (1917) | Substantive due process, state's prohibition of employment agencies was unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment |
| Buchanan v. Warley | 245 U.S. 60 (1917) | constitutionality of local ordinance compelling racial segregation of residential housing |
| Chicago Board of Trade v. United States | 246 U.S. 231 (1918) | Rules of a commodities exchange examined under rule of reason |
| Hammer v. Dagenhart | 247 U.S. 251 (1918) | Congressional power to regulate child labor under the Commerce Clause |
| International News Service v. Associated Press | 248 U.S. 215 (1918) | property rights in news |
| Schenck v. United States | 249 U.S. 47 (1919) | freedom of speech, “clear and present danger”, “shouting fire in a crowded theater” |
| Debs v. United States | 249 U.S. 211 (1919) | sedition |
| Abrams v. United States | 250 U.S. 616 (1919) | validity of criminalizing criticism of the government |
| Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States | 251 U.S. 385 (1920) | Fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine in a tax evasion case |
| Eisner v. Macomber | 252 U.S. 189 (1920) | pro rata stock dividend not taxable income |
| Missouri v. Holland | 252 U.S. 416 (1920) | states’ rights |
| United States v. Wheeler | 254 U.S. 281 (1920) | Privileges and Immunities Clause and kidnapping |
| Smith v. Kansas City Title & Trust Co. | 255 U.S. 180 (1921) | federal question jurisdiction in state corporate law matter |
| Newberry v. United States | 256 U.S. 232 (1921) | Congress lacks the power to regulate primary elections |
| Dillon v. Gloss | 256 U.S. 368 (1921) | Constitutional amendment process |
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