- McCulloch vs maryland: broadedned federal power at the expense of the state
- brown vs the board of education: outlawed segregation in schools
- dred scott vs stanford: damdged their reputation by saying black people/slaves were not citizens/people
- fletcher vs peck: extended judicial review to state laws
- gibbson vs ogden: founded the meaning of interstate commerece and extended federal authority
- marbury vs madison: started the whole judicial review thing
- plessy vs ferguson: established the "seperate but equal doctrine"