Judicial Decisions and Rulings

Court rulings and judicial opinions that settle a specific legal dispute and, in doing so, establish or overturn a constitutional or legal principle, including Brown v. Board of Education, Dred Scott v. Sandford, Marbury v. Madison and Plessy v. Ferguson. Belongs here: a text that is a court's own written decision in a specific case. Does not belong here: a treatise or theoretical work that discusses law or the state without deciding an actual case, grouped under Political Philosophy and Theoretical Works, or the constitutional or statutory text a ruling interprets, grouped under Constitutions and Founding Charters.