570 U.S. 744 (2013) Cited 675 times 93 Legal Analyses
Holding unconstitutional under the Fifth Amendment a federal law recognizing opposite-sex-sex but not same-sex marriages because its "principal purpose [was] to impose inequality, not for other reasons like governmental efficiency"
501 U.S. 868 (1991) Cited 928 times 63 Legal Analyses
Holding that a Tax Court special trial judge is an "inferior officer" even though "special trial judges ... render [final] decisions of the Tax Court in [certain] cases"
Holding that the statutory conditions of § 753(f) for furnishing a free transcript in § 2255 proceedings are consistent with due process and equal protection
Looking to "prominent international scholars" from "the time of the founding" to elucidate the meaning of the Reception Clause, Article II, section 3, of the Constitution
Denying standing to appellant Congressman to challenge alleged illegal use of funds by the CIA in part because the alleged harm "would take place, if at all, at some undetermined time in the future when Congress exercised" a power related to the alleged illegality
Finding that the House committee "is not looking to the Declaratory Judgment Act as the source of the right it is seeking to vindicate in this Court, but rather as the source of the mechanism to achieve the vindication of a right derived elsewhere"