Home›Landmark Cases›Decision Era›By Century›20th centuryBrowse By20th centuryThis dimension groups landmark cases by the era in which they were decided. Wikipedia's own example dates one leading case's description to "1914," when "Canadian jurist Augustus Henry Frazer Lefroy" wrote his account of what makes a case leading. Browsing by decision era lets a visitor compare landmark cases decided in the same period.20th centurySourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)20th centuryFilter Results52 entriesLegal SystemAllCommon Law (23)English Law (1)German Legal System (2)Indian Legal System (5)Law of the United States (11)Mixed Systems (3)Public International Law (5)CourtAllBundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Court) (2)Constitutional Court of South Africa (2)Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) (2)European Court of Human Rights (1)High Court of Australia (3)Inter-American Court of Human Rights (1)International Court of Justice (1)International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) (1)International Military Tribunal for the Far East (1)Judicial functions of the House of Lords (2)New York Court of Appeals (2)Supreme Court of Canada (3)Supreme Court of India (6)United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1)United States Supreme Court (24)Authoring JuristAllA. N. Ray (1)Benjamin N. 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Children's Hospital20th centuryADM Jabalpur v Shivakant Shukla20th centuryAustralian Capital Television Pty Ltd v Commonwealth20th centuryBrown v Board of Education20th centuryBuck v Bell20th centuryChevron USA v Natural Resources Defense Council20th centuryCommonwealth v Tasmania20th centuryCosta v ENEL20th centuryDonoghue v Stevenson20th centuryErie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins20th centuryEverson v. Board of Education20th centuryFilartiga v Pena-Irala20th centuryGideon v Wainwright20th centuryGolaknath v State of Punjab20th centuryGovernment of the Republic of South Africa v Grootboom20th centuryGriswold v. Connecticut20th centuryHandyside v United Kingdom20th centuryHedley Byrne v Heller20th centuryImmigration and Naturalization Service v Chadha20th centuryKatz v United States20th centuryKesavananda Bharati v State of Kerala20th centuryKorematsu v United States20th centuryLochner v. New York20th centuryLoving v Virginia20th centuryLuth Case20th centuryMabo v Queensland (No 2)20th centuryMacPherson v Buick Motor Co20th centuryManeka Gandhi v Union of India20th centuryMapp v Ohio20th centuryMinerva Mills v Union of India20th centuryMiranda v Arizona20th centuryNew York Times Co v Sullivan20th centuryNicaragua v United States20th centuryPalsgraf v Long Island Railroad Co20th centuryPennsylvania Coal Co v Mahon20th centuryR v Morgentaler20th centuryR v Oakes20th centuryReference re Secession of Quebec20th centuryRegents of the University of California v Bakke20th centuryRoe v Wade20th centuryS v Makwanyane and Another20th centurySolange II decision20th centuryTerry v Ohio20th centuryThe Nuremberg Trials20th centuryTinker v Des Moines Independent Community School District20th centuryTokyo Trials (International Military Tribunal for the Far East)20th centuryUnited States v Nixon20th centuryVan Gend en Loos20th centuryVelasquez Rodriguez v Honduras20th centuryVishaka v State of Rajasthan20th centuryWeeks v United States20th centuryYoungstown Sheet and Tube Co v Sawyer20th centurySourcesR v Oakes (Wikipedia)tier 2WikipediaContains: R v Oakes, Category placement - in-categoryView the SourceCommonwealth v Tasmania (Wikipedia)tier 2WikipediaContains: Commonwealth v Tasmania, Category placement - in-categoryView the SourceSouth China Sea Arbitration (Wikipedia)tier 2WikipediaContains: South China Sea Arbitration (Philippines v. China), Category placement - in-categoryView the SourceGriswold v. Connecticut (Wikipedia)tier 2Contains: Griswold v. ConnecticutEntick v Carrington (Wikipedia)tier 2Contains: Entick v CarringtonNavtej Singh Johar v. Union of India (Wikipedia)tier 2Contains: Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of IndiaInternational Military Tribunal for the Far East (Wikipedia)tier 2Contains: Tokyo Trials (International Military Tribunal for the Far East)Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.