Good list of SCOTUS decisions to read?

[65fastback2+2]

I'd really like to start educating myself on SCOTUS decisions and was curious if anyone had a list of preferred order to start reading them in?

 

[presence]

I usually just find a topic that interests me then follow the rabbit hole to where it leads. If you want to get your feet wet on a liberty issue a good place to start is the history of free speech decisions.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/cases/topics/tog_first_amendment.html

By topic

• 1990-present
• historic

Wikipedia is a great way to find related court cases about a particular subject as they tend to hyperlink to one another.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases


http://www.supremecourt.gov

Another good way to "dive in" is pick a particular Judge and work your way through their decisions.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/cases/judges.htm

By author

• 1990-present
• historic

you can put in authors last name like this:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/author.php?scalia

if it helps you can sort by party too:

• • 1990-present
  • historic

 

[65fastback2+2]

nice! good tips

 

[presence]

Another thing to keep in mind is that there are manyJudges that were never SCOTUS, but also made notable decisions with regard to liberty issues. For example Learned Hand had many noteworthy things to say about the 1st Amendment

Learned Hand
Judge

Billings Learned Hand was a United States judge and judicial philosopher. He served on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and later the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Wikipedia




Born: January 27, 1872, Albany, NY


Died: August 18, 1961, New York City, NY

 

[65fastback2+2]

Another thing to keep in mind is that there are manyJudges that were never SCOTUS, but also made notable decisions with regard to liberty issues. For example Learned Hand had many noteworthy things to say about the 1st Amendment

ya...I'd like to eventually work my way down the ladder, but I might be a million years old by then.