Information about famous court cases

Web sources

The case of Sacco & Vanzetti, Mass. Supreme Judicial Court

Famous trials, UMKC School of Law
In-depth information on selected famous or infamous cases, from Socrates to the present

Historic Supreme Court decisions by party name, Cornell Legal Information Institute

Massachusetts Constitution and the abolition of slavery, Mass. Supreme Judicial Court
"During the years 1781 to 1783, in three related cases known today as 'the Quock Walker case,' the Supreme Judicial Court applied the principle of judicial review to abolish slavery. "

 

Print sources

America on trial: inside the legal battles that transformed our nation, by Alan Dershowitz, Warner Books, 2004

Great American court cases, Gale Group, 4 v., 1999

Great American trials, Gale Group, 2002

Law makers, law breakers, and uncommon trials, by Robert Aitken, American Bar Association, 2007

The Sacco-Vanzetti affair: America on trial, by Moshik Temkin, Yale University Press, 2009

Last updated:	July 5, 2019