Court case - Definition and Overview

This is a list of significant court cases.

Australian court cases

• Gutnick v. Dow Jones

Canadian court cases

• Ford v. Quebec (A.G.)

European Court of Justice cases

• Van Duyn v. Home Office [1975] Ch 358 ECJ

United Kingdom court cases

England and Wales

Public:

• Haxey's case (1397) Rot. Parl. (iii) 434
• Entick v. Carrington (1765) 19 St Tr 1030

Contracts:

• Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v. Boots Cash Chemists [1952] 2 QB 795
• Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Company [1893] 1 QB 256
• Hadley v. Baxendale (1854) 9 Ct of Exchq 341

Mistake:

• Raffles v. Wichelhaus Ct of Exchq 159 Eng Rep 375 [1864]
• Cundy v. Lindsay (1878) 3 App Cas 459
• Lewis v. Averay [1972] 1 QB 198

Estoppel:

• Central London Property Trust Ltd v. High Trees House Ltd [1947] K.B. 130.

Copyright:

• Walter v. Lane [1900] AC 539, (House of Lords)

Others:

• R v. Dudley and Stephens (1884) 14 QBD 273 DC
• Woolmington v. DPP [1935] AC 462 HL(E)
• Young v. Bristol Aeroplane Co Ltd [1944] KB 718 CA
• Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v. Wednesbury Corpn [1948] 1 KB 223 CA
• Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales v. Attorney-General [1972] Ch 73 CA
• American Cyanamid Co. v. Ethicon Ltd. [1975] AC 396 HL(E)

Scotland

• Donoghue v. Stevenson, [1932] A.C. 532, [1932] All ER Rep 1

United States court cases

Copyright, patents, etc.

• Bauer & Cie. v. O'Donnell 229 US 1 1913
• Bobbs-Merrill Co v. Straus
• Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music 510 U.S. 569 (1994)
• Suntrust v. Houghton Mifflin (2001)
• Eldred v. Ashcroft

Reproduction and abortion:

• Roe v. Wade
• Griswold v. Connecticut
• Doe v. Bolton
• Webster v. Reproductive Health Services
• Planned Parenthood v. Casey

Constitutional law:

• Engblom v. Carey (1982)
• Marbury v. Madison 5 US 137 1803
• United States v. Nixon
• Ex parte Merryman

Civil rights:

• Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896) -- approved racial segregation in public facilities
• Grutter v. Bollinger
• Lawrence v. Texas
• Bowers v. Hardwick
• Baker v. Vermont
• Romer v. Evans 517 US 620 (1996)
• A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, 295 U.S. 495 (1935)
• Korematsu v. United States
• Miller v. California 413 US 15 1973
• Lemon v. Kurtzman 403 US 602 (1971)

Others:

• Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co. 248 NY 339, 162 NE 99 (1928)
• Robinson v. Mandell

See also

• List of leading legal cases in copyright law
• List of United States Supreme Court cases
• List of Supreme Court of Canada cases
• List of Judicial Committees of the Privy Council & House of Lords cases