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The U.S. Supreme Court case Thomas Gibbons v. Aaron Ogden (1824), often referred to as the steamboat monopoly case, is consistently ranked by historians as one of the most important landmark decisions in American jurisprudence. Gibbons v. Ogden represented the first Supreme Court case to tackle the thorny issue of interstate commerce and upheld the right of Congress to regulate travel between state lines. The case originated with the development of steam travel in New York. In 1798 the state chancellor Robert R. Livingston secured a legislative monopoly on steam travel in New York waters. In 1807 Livingston and his partner, the famous inventor Robert Fulton, successfully launched their prototype North River Steam Boat on the Hudson River.
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- Marbury v. Madison
- Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee
- Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward
- McCulloch v. Maryland
- Cohens v. Virginia
- Gibbons v. Ogden
- Worcester v. Georgia
- Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge
- United States v. Amistad
- Prigg v. Pennsylvania
- Dred Scott v. Sandford
- Ableman v. Booth
- Ex parte Milligan
- Slaughterhouse Cases
- United States v. Cruikshank
- Reynolds v. United States
- Civil Rights Cases
- Elk v. Wilkins
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- United States v. Wong Kim Ark
- Lochner v. New York
- Muller v. Oregon
- Frank v. Mangum
- Guinn v. United States
- Hammer v. Dagenhart
- Schenck v. United States
- Abrams v. United States
- Whitney v. California
- Olmstead v. United States
- Powell v. Alabama
- A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States
- United States v. Curtiss-Wright
- National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation
- West Coast Hotel v. Parrish
- Cantwell v. Connecticut
- Wickard v. Filburn
- West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
- Korematsu v. United States
- Sweatt v. Painter
- Dennis v. United States
- Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Hernandez v. Texas
- Gomillion v. Lightfoot
- Mapp v. Ohio
- Baker v. Carr
- Engel v. Vitale
- Gideon v. Wainwright
- Katzenbach v. McClung
- New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
- Griswold v. Connecticut
- Bond v. Floyd
- Miranda v. Arizona
- South Carolina v. Katzenbach
- Loving v. Virginia
- Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
- New York Times Co. v. United States
- Flood v. Kuhn
- Furman v. Georgia
- San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez
- Sierra Club v. Morton
- Roe v. Wade
- Milliken v. Bradley
- United States v. Nixon
- Craig v. Boren
- Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
- Frontiero v. Richardson
- Texas v. Johnson
- United States v. Lopez
- United States v. Virginia
- Clinton v. Jones
- Bush v. Gore
- Friends of the Earth v. Laidlaw Environmental Services
- Zelman v. Simmons-Harris
- Lawrence v. Texas
- District of Columbia v. Heller
- Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
- Shelby County v. Holder
- Obergefell v. Hodges
- Bostock v. Clayton County
- Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization