United States Supreme Court Cases - By Chief Justice

By Chief Justice

These lists are sorted chronologically by Chief Justice and include most major cases decided by the Court. There is also a list with cases from the Court's entire history (large article).

  • Jay, Rutledge, and Ellsworth Courts (October 19, 1789 – December 15, 1800)
  • Marshall Court (February 4, 1801 – July 6, 1835)
  • Taney Court (March 28, 1836 – October 12, 1864)
  • Chase Court (December 15, 1864 – May 7, 1873)
  • Waite Court (March 4, 1874 – March 23, 1888)
  • Fuller Court (October 8, 1888 – July 4, 1910)
  • White Court (December 19, 1910 – May 19, 1921)
  • Taft Court (July 11, 1921 – February 3, 1930)
  • Hughes Court (February 24, 1930 – June 30, 1941)
  • Stone Court (July 3, 1941 – April 22, 1946)
  • Vinson Court (June 24, 1946 – September 8, 1953)
  • Warren Court (October 5, 1953 – June 23, 1969) (also see Warren Court)
  • Burger Court (June 23, 1969 – September 26, 1986)
  • Rehnquist Court (September 26, 1986 – September 3, 2005)
  • Roberts Court (September 29, 2005 to the present)

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Famous quotes containing the words chief justice, chief and/or justice:

    “A judge is not supposed to know anything about the facts of life until they have been presented in evidence and explained to him at least three times.”
    —Parker, Lord Chief Justice (1900–1972)

    “Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omission of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)