Blue laws

• McGowan v. Maryland (1961)
• Braunfeld v. Brown (1961)
• Gallagher v. Crown Kosher Super Market of Mass., Inc. (1961)
• Thornton v. Caldor (1985)

Government aid to church-related schools

• Cochran v. Louisiana State Board of Education, 281 U.S. 370 (1930)
• Everson v. Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1 (1947)
• Board of Ed. of Central School Dist. No. 1 v. Allen, 392 U.S. 236 (1968)
• Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602 (1971)
• Tilton v. Richardson, 403 U.S. 672 (1971)
• Lemon v. Kurtzman II, 411 U.S. 192 (1973)
• Levitt v. Committee for Public Education and Religious Liberty, 413 U.S. 472 (1973)
• Hunt v. McNair, 413 U.S. 734 (1973)
• Committee for Public Education and Religious Liberty v. Nyquist, 413 U.S. 756 (1973)
• Sloan v. Lemon, 413 U.S. 825 (1973)
• Wheeler v. Barrera, 417 U.S. 402 (1974)
• Public Funds for Public Schools v. Marburger (1974)
• Meek v. Pittenger, 421 U.S. 349 (1975)
• Roemer v. Board of Public Works of Maryland, 426 U.S. 736 (1976)
• Wolman v. Walter, 433 U.S. 229 (1977)
• New York v. Cathedral Academy, 434 U.S. 125 (1977)
• Committee for Public Education and Religious Liberty v. Regan, 444 U.S. 646 (1980)
• Mueller v. Allen, 463 U.S. 388 (1983)
• School Dist. of Grand Rapids v. Ball, 473 U.S. 373 (1985)
• Aguilar v. Felton, 473 U.S. 402 (1985)
• Witters v. Washington Department of Services for the Blind, 474 U.S. 481 (1986)
• Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District, 509 U.S. 1 (1993)
• Board of Education of Kiryas Joel Village School District v. Grumet, 512 U.S. 687 (1994)
• Agostini v. Felton, 521 U.S. 203 (1997)
• Mitchell v. Helms, 530 U.S. 793 (2000)
• Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, 536 U.S. 639 (2002)
• Locke v. Davey, 540 U.S. 712 (2004)
• Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn, 563 U.S. 125 (2011)

Government-sponsored religious displays

• Lynch v. Donnelly, 465 U.S. 668 (1984)
• Board of Trustees of Scarsdale v. McCreary, 471 U.S. 83 (1985)
• County of Allegheny v. American Civil Liberties Union, 492 U.S. 573 (1989)
• Van Orden v. Perry, 545 U.S. 677 (2005)
• McCreary County v. American Civil Liberties Union, 545 U.S. 844 (2005)
• Pleasant Grove City v. Summum, 555 U.S. 460 (2009)
• Salazar v. Buono, 559 U.S. 700 (2010)
• American Legion v. American Humanist Association, No. 17-1717, 588 U.S. ___ (2019)

Internal religious affairs (also involving the Free Exercise Clause)

• Watson v. Jones, 80 U.S. (13 Wall.) 679 (1872)
• United States v. Ballard, 322 U.S. 78 (1944)
• Kedroff v. St. Nicholas Cathedral of Russian Orthodox Church in North America, 344 U.S. 94 (1952)
• Kreshik v. St. Nicholas Cathedral, 363 U.S. 190 (1960)
• Presbyterian Church v. Hull Church, 393 U.S. 440 (1969)
• Serbian Eastern Orthodox Diocese for the United States of America & Canada v. Milivojevich, 426 U.S. 696 (1976)
• Jones v. Wolf, 443 U.S. 595 (1979)
• Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Juan v. Acevedo Feliciano, No. 18-921, 589 U.S. ___ (2020)

Private religious speech

• Lamb's Chapel v. Center Moriches Union Free School District, 508 U.S. 384 (1993)
• Capitol Square Review & Advisory Board v. Pinette, 515 U.S. 753 (1995)
• Rosenberger v. University of Virginia, 515 U.S. 819 (1995)
• Good News Club v. Milford Central School, 533 U.S. 98 (2001)
• Shurtleff v. City of Boston, No. 20-1800, 596 U.S. ___ (2022)

Religion in public schools

• McCollum v. Board of Education, 333 U.S. 203 (1948)
• Zorach v. Clauson, 343 U.S. 306 (1952)
• Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962)
• Abington School District v. Schempp, 374 U.S. 203 (1963)
• Epperson v. Arkansas, 393 U.S. 97 (1968)
• Stone v. Graham, 449 U.S. 39 (1980)
• Wallace v. Jaffree, 472 U.S. 38 (1985)
• Edwards v. Aguillard, 482 U.S. 578 (1987)
• Westside Community Board of Education v. Mergens, 496 U.S. 226 (1990)
• Lee v. Weisman, 505 U.S. 577 (1992)
• Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe, 530 U.S. 290 (2000)
• Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow, 542 U.S. 1 (2004)
• Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, No. 21-418, 597 U.S. ___ (2022)

Religious institution functioning as a government agency

• Larkin v. Grendel's Den, Inc., 459 U.S. 116 (1982)
• Board of Education of Kiryas Joel Village School District v. Grumet, 512 U.S. 687 (1994)

Standing to sue

• Flast v. Cohen, 392 U.S. 83 (1968)
• Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church & State, 454 U.S. 464 (1982)
• Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation, 551 U.S. 587 (2007)
• Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn, 563 U.S. 125 (2011)

Statutory religious exemptions

• Walz v. Tax Commission of the City of New York, 397 U.S. 664 (1970)
• Bob Jones University v. United States, 461 U.S. 574 (1983)
• Estate of Thornton v. Caldor, Inc., 472 U.S. 703 (1985)
• Corporation of Presiding Bishop of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints v. Amos, 483 U.S. 327 (1987)
• Texas Monthly, Inc. v. Bullock, 489 U.S. 1 (1989)
• City of Boerne v. Flores, 521 U.S. 507 (1997)
• Cutter v. Wilkinson, 544 U.S. 709 (2005)

Unequal government treatment of different religious groups

• Larson v. Valente, 456 U.S. 228 (1982)

Abortion and contraception

• Harris v. McRae, 448 U.S. 297 (1980)
• Bowen v. Kendrick, 487 U.S. 589 (1988)

Other

• Torcaso v. Watkins (1961)
• McDaniel v. Paty (1978)
• Trump v. Hawaii (2018)

Exclusion of religion from public benefits

• Locke v. Davey, 540 U.S. 712 (2004)
• Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer, No. 15-577, 582 U.S. ___ (2017)
• Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, No. 18-1195, 591 U.S. ___ (2020)
• Carson v. Makin, No. 20-1088, 596 U.S. ___ (2022)

Polygamy

• Reynolds v. United States (1878)
• Davis v. Beason (1890)

Free exercise and eminent domain

• Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association (1988)
• City of Boerne v. Flores (1997)

Free exercise and free speech

• R. A. V. v. City of St. Paul (1992)
• Good News Club v. Milford Central School (2001)
• Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal (2006)
• Fulton v. City of Philadelphia (2021)

Free exercise and public education

• Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972)
• Widmar v. Vincent (1981)
• Board of Education of the Westside Community Schools v. Mergens (1990)
• Lamb's Chapel v. Center Moriches Union Free School District (1993)
• Rosenberger v. Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia (1995)
• Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, No. 21-418, 597 U.S. ___ (2022)

Free exercise and public property

• Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board v. Pinette (1995)

Internal religious affairs (also involving the Establishment Clause)

• Watson v. Jones, 80 U.S. (13 Wall.) 679 (1872)
• United States v. Ballard, 322 U.S. 78 (1944)
• Kedroff v. St. Nicholas Cathedral of Russian Orthodox Church in North America, 344 U.S. 94 (1952)
• Kreshik v. St. Nicholas Cathedral, 363 U.S. 190 (1960)
• Presbyterian Church v. Hull Church, 393 U.S. 440 (1969)
• Serbian Eastern Orthodox Diocese for the United States of America & Canada v. Milivojevich, 426 U.S. 696 (1976)
• Jones v. Wolf, 443 U.S. 595 (1979)
• Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Juan v. Acevedo Feliciano, No. 18-921, 589 U.S. ___ (2020)

Religion and the right to work

• Sherbert v. Verner (1963)
• Trans World Airlines v. Hardison (1977)
• Ohio Civil Rights Commission v. Dayton Christian Schools (1986)
• Corporation of Presiding Bishop of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints v. Amos (1987)
• Employment Division v. Smith (1990)

Religious tests for public service or benefits

• Torcaso v. Watkins (1961)
• McDaniel v. Paty (1978)
• Thomas v. Review Board of the Indiana Employment Security Division (1981)
• Goldman v. Weinberger (1986)
• Bowen v. Roy (1986)

Ritual sacrifice of animals

• Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah (1993)

Solicitation by religious groups

• Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940)
• Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940)
• Cox v. New Hampshire (1941)
• Jones v. City of Opelika (I) (1942)
• Marsh v. Alabama (1942)
• Murdock v. Pennsylvania (1943)
• Jones v. City of Opelika (II) (1943)
• West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)
• Prince v. Massachusetts (1944)
• Heffron v. International Society for Krishna Consciousness (1981)
• Watchtower Society v. Village of Stratton (2002)

Statutory religious exemptions

Other

• Sause v. Bauer, No. 17-742, 585 U.S. ___ (2018)
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo (2020)
• Tandon v. Newsom (2021)

Campaign finance

• Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1 (1976)
• First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, 435 U.S. 765 (1978)
• California Medical Association v. FEC, 453 U.S. 182 (1981)
• Citizens Against Rent Control v. City of Berkeley, 454 U.S. 290 (1981)
• FEC v. National Right to Work Committee, 459 U.S. 197 (1982)
• FEC v. National Conservative PAC, 470 U.S. 480 (1985)
• FEC v. Massachusetts Citizens for Life, 479 U.S. 238 (1986)
• Eu v. S.F. Cty. Democratic Cent. Comm., 489 U.S. 214 (1989)
• Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, 494 U.S. 652 (1990)
• Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee v. FEC, 518 U.S. 604 (1996)
• Nixon v. Shrink Missouri Government PAC, 528 U.S. 377 (2000)
• FEC v. Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee, 533 U.S. 431 (2001)
• Republican Party of Minnesota v. White, 536 U.S. 765 (2002)
• FEC v. Beaumont, 539 U.S. 146 (2003)
• McConnell v. FEC, 540 U.S. 93 (2003)
• Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc. v. FEC, 546 U.S. 410 (2006)
• Randall v. Sorrell, 548 U.S. 230 (2006)
• FEC v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc., 551 U.S. 449 (2007)
• Davis v. FEC, 554 U.S. 724 (2008)
• Citizens United v. FEC, 558 U.S. 310 (2010)
• Arizona Free Enterprise Club's Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett, 564 U.S. 721 (2011)
• American Tradition Partnership, Inc. v. Bullock, 567 U.S. 516 (2012)
• McCutcheon v. FEC, 572 U.S. 185 (2014)
• Williams-Yulee v. Florida Bar, No. 13-1499, 575 U.S. ___ (2015)
• Thompson v. Hebdon, No. 19-122, 589 U.S. ___ (2019)
• FEC v. Ted Cruz for Senate, No. 21-12, 596 U.S. ___ (2022)

Commercial speech

• Valentine v. Chrestensen (1942)
• Rowan v. U.S. Post Office Dept. (1970)
• Pittsburgh Press Co. v. Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations (1973)
• Lehman v. Shaker Heights (1974)
• Bigelow v. Commonwealth of Virginia (1974)
• Virginia State Pharmacy Board v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council (1976)
• Bates v. State Bar of Arizona (1977)
• Linmark Associates, Inc. v. Willingboro (1977)
• Ohralik v. Ohio State Bar Assn. (1978)
• Friedman v. Rogers (1979)
• Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. v. Public Service Commission (1980)
• Consol. Edison Co. v. Public Serv. Comm'n (1980)
• Metromedia, Inc. v. San Diego (1981)
• Hoffman Estates v. The Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. (1982)
• Bolger v. Youngs Drug Products Corp. (1983)
• Edenfield v. Fane (1993)
• 44 Liquormart, Inc. v. Rhode Island (1996)
• Expressions Hair Design v. Schneiderman (2017)
• Iancu v. Brunetti (2019)

Compelled speech

• Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940)
• West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)
• Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo (1974)
• Wooley v. Maynard (1977)
• Agency for International Development v. Alliance for Open Society (2013)
• National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra (2018)
• Agency for International Development v. Alliance for Open Society (2020)
• 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis (2023)

Content-based

• R. A. V. v. City of St. Paul (1992)
• Reed v. Town of Gilbert (2015)
• City of Austin v. Reagan National Advertising of Austin, LLC (2022)

Content-neutral

• City of Ladue v. Gilleo (1994)

Sedition and imminent danger

• Debs v. United States (1919)
• Schenck v. United States (1919)
• Abrams v. United States (1919)
• Gitlow v. New York (1925)
• Whitney v. California (1927)
• Dennis v. United States (1951)
• Communist Party v. Subversive Activities Control Board (1955)
• Yates v. United States (1957)
• Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969)

False speech

• United States v. Alvarez (2012)
• Susan B. Anthony List v. Driehaus (2014)

Fighting words and the heckler's veto

• Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940)
• Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942)
• Terminiello v. Chicago (1949)
• Feiner v. New York (1951)
• National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie (1977)
• R. A. V. v. City of St. Paul (1992)
• Snyder v. Phelps (2011)

Freedom of assembly and public forums

• Hague v. CIO (1939)
• Schneider v. New Jersey (1939)
• Martin v. Struthers (1943)
• NAACP v. Alabama (1958)
• Bates v. City of Little Rock (1960)
• Edwards v. South Carolina (1963)
• Cox v. Louisiana (1965)
• Brown v. Louisiana (1966)
• Adderley v. Florida (1966)
• Carroll v. Town of Princess Anne (1968)
• Coates v. Cincinnati (1971)
• Organization for a Better Austin v. Keefe (1971)
• Southeastern Promotions, Ltd. v. Conrad (1975)
• Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins (1980)
• Postal Service v. Council of Greenburgh Civic Assns. (1981)
• Christian Legal Society v. Martinez (2010)
• Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck (2019)
• Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta (2021)

Government speech

Cases pertaining to whether or not extending protections to speech constitutes government endorsement of speech.

• Pleasant Grove City v. Summum, 555 U.S. 460 (2009)
• Walker v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans (2015)
• Matal v. Tam (2017)
• Iancu v. Brunetti (2019)
• Shurtleff v. City of Boston, No. 20-1800, 596 U.S. ___ (2022)

Government-subsidized speech

Cases about restrictions on speech by third parties funded by the government.

• Rust v. Sullivan (1991)
• Legal Services Corp. v. Velazquez (2001)

Obscenity

Public employees

• Pickering v. Board of Education (1968)
• Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth (1972)
• Perry v. Sindermann (1972)
• Arnett v. Kennedy (1974)
• Parker v. Levy (1974)
• Madison School District v. Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission (1976)
• Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle (1977)
• Givhan v. Western Line Consolidated School District (1979)
• Snepp v. United States (1980)
• Connick v. Myers (1983)
• Rankin v. McPherson (1987)
• Waters v. Churchill (1994)
• United States v. National Treasury Employees Union (1995)
• Board of Commissioners, Wabaunsee County v. Umbehr, (1996)
• San Diego v. Roe (2004)
• Garcetti v. Ceballos (2007)
• Borough of Duryea v. Guarnieri (2011)
• Lane v. Franks (2014)
• Heffernan v. City of Paterson (2016)
• Houston Community College System v. Wilson, No. 20-804, 595 U.S. ___ (2022)

Public school students

Speech by students in public secondary schools

• Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969)
• Healy v. James (1972)
• Board of Education v. Pico (1982)
• Bethel School District No. 403 v. Fraser (1986)
• Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier (1988)
• Morse v. Frederick (2007)
• Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L. (2021)

Retaliation by public officials

Cases in which it has been alleged governmental officials retaliated for protected speech made by private citizens who are not employed by said officials.

• Bridges v. California (1941)
• Pennekamp v. Florida (1946)
• Wood v. Georgia (1962)
• Haig v. Agee (1981)
• Gentile v. State Bar of Nevada (1991)
• Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach (2018)
• Nieves v. Bartlett (2019)

Symbolic speech

• United States v. O'Brien (1968)
• Cohen v. California (1971)
• Smith v. Goguen (1974)
• Texas v. Johnson (1989)
• United States v. Eichman (1990)
• City of Erie v. Pap's A.M. (2000)
• Virginia v. Black (2003)

Broadcast media

• Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC (1968)
• CBS v. Democratic National Committee (1973)
• FCC v. League of Women Voters of California (1984)
• FCC v. Pacifica Foundation (1989)
• Turner Broadcasting v. FCC (1995)
• Bartnicki v. Vopper 532 U.S. 514 (2001)

• FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc. I (2009)
• FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc. II (2012)

Defamation

• Beauharnais v. Illinois (1952)
• New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964)
• Garrison v. Louisiana (1964)
• Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts (1967)
• St. Amant v. Thompson (1968)
• Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. (1974)
• Time, Inc. v. Firestone (1976)
• Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. (1981)
• Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. v. Greenmoss Builders, Inc. (1985)
• McDonald v. Smith (1985)
• Hustler Magazine v. Falwell (1988)
• Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co. (1990)
• Hoeper v. Air Wisconsin (2014)

Prior restraints and censorship

• Near v. Minnesota (1931)
• Lovell v. City of Griffin (1938)
• Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969)
• New York Times Co. v. United States (1971)
• Nebraska Press Assn. v. Stuart (1976)
• Houchins v. KQED, Inc. (1978)
• Tory v. Cochran (2005)
• Citizens United v. FEC (2010)

Privacy

• Time, Inc. v. Hill (1967)
• Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. Cohn (1975)
• Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Virginia (1980)
• Florida Star v. B. J. F. (1989)
• Wilson v. Layne (1999)

Search and seizure

• Zurcher v. Stanford Daily, (1978)

Taxation and privileges

• Grosjean v. American Press Co. (1936)
• Branzburg v. Hayes (1972)
• Minneapolis Star Tribune Company v. Commissioner (1983)