Landmark Cases

The decided cases this atlas holds as precedent, the rulings that changed how a court reads a constitution, a statute, or an established doctrine rather than merely applying settled law to one dispute. Grouped into nine subcategories, from Constitutional Rights and Civil Liberties through Tort Law, a finer split of this atlas's own doctrine scheme so a reader can find a case beside the others that shaped the same body of law. Holdings are recorded as the record, never as advocacy; where a later court has overruled an earlier one, both sit here with the overruling stated as a case-status fact, not erased.