landmark decision

A landmark decision is a court ruling that establishes a significant new legal principle or precedent, often reshaping the interpretation or application of the law.

Observed surface forms (2)

• Supreme Court majority opinion ×1
• legal decision ×1

Instances (36)

• Bolling v. Sharpe
• Roe v. Wade
• Bush v. Gore
• Doe v. Bolton
• Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority
• Planned Parenthood v. Casey
• Employment Division v. Smith
• Corfield v. Coryell via concept surface "legal decision"
• Supreme Court of New Hampshire v. Piper
• Mapp v. Ohio
• United States v. Virginia (1996) majority opinion via concept surface "Supreme Court majority opinion"
• Browder v. Gayle
• Loving v. Virginia
• Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
• Bostock v. Clayton County
• McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green
• Cooper v. Aaron
• Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1
• Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
• Brandenburg v. Ohio
• Escobedo v. Illinois
• Lotus case
• Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah
• Gregg v. Georgia
• Lochner v. New York
• Mathews v. Eldridge
• Goldberg v. Kelly
• Plyler v. Doe
• Gideon v. Wainwright
• Boynton v. Virginia
• Furman v. Georgia
• Miranda v. Arizona
• Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association (2018)
  surface form: Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association
• United Public Workers v. Mitchell
• Helvering v. Davis
• Ex parte Endo