Historic Supreme Court Decisions - by Justice
The following list includes all the justices who have served on the Supreme Court. The justices whose names are linked are represented by one or more opinions in this historic collection. Clicking on a linked name will retrieve all the opinions by that justice included in the collection (including concurring and dissenting opinions). You can scroll down the list or click on one of the following letters to jump directly to that portion of it.
Following each justice's name is a link to a brief biography (Bio). The source for most of these notes is a publication of the Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, entitled The Supreme Court of the United States: Its Beginnings and Its Justices 1790-1991.
- A-B
- Henry Baldwin (1830-1846) (Bio)
- Philip P. Barbour (1836-1841) (Bio)
- Hugo L. Black (1937-1972) (Bio)
- Harry A. Blackmun (1970-1994) (Bio)
- John Blair (1789-1796) (Bio)
- Samuel Blatchford (1882-1894) (Bio)
- Joseph P. Bradley (1869-1892) (Bio)
- Louis D. Brandeis (1916-1939) (Bio)
- William J. Brennan (1956-1990) (Bio)
- David J. Brewer (1889-1910) (Bio)
- Stephen Breyer (1994-Present) (Bio / see also)
- Henry B. Brown (1890-1906) (Bio)
- Warren E. Burger (1969-1986) (Bio)
- Harold H. Burton (1945-1958) (Bio)
- Pierce Butler (1922-1940) (Bio)
- James F. Byrnes (1941-1943) (Bio)
- C-E
- John A. Campbell (1853-1862) (Bio)
- Benjamin N. Cardozo (1932-1939) (Bio)
- John Catron (1837-1865) (Bio)
- Salmon P. Chase (1864-1874) (Bio)
- Samuel Chase (1796-1811) (Bio)
- Tom C. Clark (1949-1967) (Bio)
- John H. Clarke (1916-1922) (Bio)
- Nathan Clifford (1858-1881) (Bio)
- Benjamin R. Curtis (1853-1858) (Bio)
- William Cushing (1789-1811) (Bio)
- Peter V. Daniel (1841-1862) (Bio)
- David Davis (1862-1898) (Bio)
- William R. Day (1903-1922) (Bio)
- William O. Douglas (1939-1975) (Bio)
- Gabriel Duvall (1811-1836) (Bio)
- Oliver Ellsworth (1796-1800) (Bio)
- F-H
- Stephen J. Field (1863-1897) (Bio)
- Abe Fortas (1965-1970) (Bio)
- Felix Frankfurter (1939-1962) (Bio)
- Melville W. Fuller (1888-1910) (Bio)
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1993-Present) (Bio / see also)
- Arthur J. Goldberg (1962-1965) (Bio)
- Horace Gray (1881-1902) (Bio)
- Robert C. Grier (1846-1870) (Bio)
- John M. Harlan (1877-1912) (Bio)
- John M. Harlan II (1955-1972) (Bio)
- Oliver W. Holmes (1902-1932) (Bio)
- Charles E. Hughes (1910-1916, 1930-1941) (Bio)
- Ward Hunt (1872-1882) (Bio)
- I-L
- James Iredell (1790-1799) (Bio)
- Howell E. Jackson (1893-1895) (Bio)
- Robert H. Jackson (1941-1955) (Bio)
- John Jay (1789-95) (Bio)
- Thomas Johnson (1791-1793) (Bio)
- William Johnson (1804-1835) (Bio)
- Anthony M. Kennedy (1988-Present) (Bio / see also)
- Lucius Q.C. Lamar (1888-1893) (Bio)
- Joseph R. Lamar, J (1910-1916) (Bio)
- Brockholst Livingston (1806-1823) (Bio)
- Horace H. Lurton (1909-1914) (Bio)
- M-N
- John Marshall (1801-1836) (Bio)
- Thurgood Marshall (1967-1991) (Bio)
- Stanley Matthews (1881-1889) (Bio)
- Joseph McKenna (1898-1925) (Bio)
- John McKinley (1837-1853) (Bio)
- John McLean (1829-1862) (Bio)
- James C. McReynolds (1914-1941) (Bio)
- Samuel F. Miller (1862-1890) (Bio)
- Sherman Minton (1949-1956) (Bio)
- William H. Moody (1906-1910) (Bio)
- Alfred Moore (1799-1804) (Bio)
- Frank Murphy (1940-1949) (Bio)
- Samuel Nelson (1845-1872) (Bio)
- O-R
- Sandra Day O'Connor (1981-2006) (Bio / see also)
- William Paterson (1793-1806) (Bio)
- Rufus W. Peckham (1895-1909) (Bio)
- Mahlon Pitney (1912-1923) (Bio)
- Lewis F. Powell (1972-1988) (Bio)
- Stanley F. Reed (1938-1957) (Bio)
- William H. Rehnquist (1972-2005) (Bio / see also)
- Owen J. Roberts (1930-1945) (Bio)
- John Rutledge (1789-1791) (Bio)
- Wiley B. Rutledge (1943-1949) (Bio)
- S-U
- Edward T. Sanford (1923-1930) (Bio)
- Antonin Scalia (1986-2016) (Bio / see also)
- George Shiras, Jr. (1892-1903) (Bio)
- John P. Stevens (1975-Present) (Bio / see also)
- David H. Souter (1990-Present) (Bio / see also)
- Potter Stewart (1958-1981) (Bio)
- Harlan F. Stone (1925-1946) (Bio)
- Joseph Story (1811-1845) (Bio)
- William Strong (1870-1880) (Bio)
- George Sutherland (1922-1938) (Bio)
- Noah H. Swayne (1862-1881) (Bio)
- William H. Taft (1921-1930) (Bio)
- Roger B. Taney (1836-1864) (Bio)
- Clarence Thomas (1991-Present) (Bio / see also)
- Smith Thompson (1823-1845) (Bio)
- Thomas Todd (1807-1826) (Bio)
- Robert Trimble (1826-1829) (Bio)
- V-Z
- Willis Van Devanter (1910-1937) (Bio)
- Fred M. Vinson (1946-1953) (Bio)
- Morrison R. Waite (1874-1888) (Bio)
- Earl Warren (1953-1969) (Bio)
- Bushrod Washington (1798-1830) (Bio)
- James M. Wayne (1835-1867) (Bio)
- Byron R. White (1962-1993) (Bio)
- Edward D. White (1894-1921) (Bio)
- Charles E. Whittaker (1957-1962) (Bio)
- James Wilson (1789-1798) (Bio)
- Levi Woodbury (1845-1853) (Bio)
- William B. Woods (1880-1888) (Bio)