# List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Stone Court

This is a partial chronological list of cases decided by the United States Supreme Court during the Stone Court, the tenure of Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone from July 3, 1941 through April 22, 1946.
| Case name | Citation | Summary |
| Curry v United States | 314 U.S. 14 (1941) | Ruled that a prime contractor to the federal government is an independent contractor and not an agent of the government. |
| Edwards v. California | 314 U.S. 160 (1941) | Commerce Clause, privileges and immunities clause of the 14th Amendment |
| Lisenba v. People of State of California | 314 U.S. 219 (1941) | death penalty |
| Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire | 315 U.S. 568 (1942) | fighting words |
| Valentine v. Chrestensen | 316 U.S. 52 (1942) | holding that commercial speech is unprotected by the 1st Amendment; overruled by Virginia State Pharmacy Board v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council |
| United States v. Univis Lens Co. | 316 U.S. 241 (1942) | exhaustion doctrine under U.S. patent law and its relation to price fixing |
| Betts v. Brady | 316 U.S. 455 (1942) | due process, incorporation |
| Skinner v. Oklahoma | 316 U.S. 535 (1942) | compulsory sterilization, eugenics |
| Jones v. City of Opelika I | 316 U.S. 584 (1942) | holding a statute prohibiting the sale of books without a license was constitutional |
| Ex parte Quirin | 317 U.S. 1 (1942) | military tribunals for enemy spies |
| Wickard v. Filburn | 317 U.S. 111 (1942) | Commerce Clause |
| Williams et al. v. State of North Carolina | 317 U.S. 287 (1942) | Divorce and marriage recognition between states |
| Parker v. Brown | 317 U.S. 341 (1943) | Parker immunity doctrine in United States antitrust law |
| Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States | 318 U.S. 363 (1943) | Negotiable instruments, Federal common law |
| Largent v. State of Texas | 318 U.S. 418 (1943) | city ordinance requiring permits in order to solicit orders for books is unconstitutional as applied to the distribution of religious publications |
| Jones v. City of Opelika II | 319 U.S. 103 (1943) | Overruling Jones v. City of Opelika I on rehearing |
| Murdock v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania | 319 U.S. 105 (1943) | licensing fee for door-to-door solicitors was an unconstitutional tax on the Jehovah's Witnesses' right to freely exercise their religion—decided same day as Jones v. City of Opelika II |
| Martin v. Struthers | 319 U.S. 141 (1943) | law prohibiting the distribution of handbills door-to-door violated the First Amendment rights of a Jehovah's Witness—decided same day as Jones v. City of Opelika II |
| Douglas v. City of Jeannette | 319 U.S. 157 (1943) | restraint of criminal prosecution for violation of ordinance disputed in Murdock v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania—decided same day as Jones v. City of Opelika II |
| National Broadcasting Co. Inc. v. United States | 319 U.S. 190 (1943) | regulation of broadcasting networks |
| Burford v. Sun Oil Co. | 319 U.S. 315 (1943) | Abstention doctrine |
| Altvater v. Freeman | 319 U.S. 359 (1943) | justiciability and declaratory judgments |
| Galloway v. United States | 319 U.S. 372 (1943) | directed verdict, 7th Amendment |
| Oklahoma Tax Commission v. United States | 319 U.S. 598 (1943) | restricted Indian land is exempt from state estate taxes |
| West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette | 319 U.S. 624 (1943) | 1st Amendment, establishment of religion (Pledge of Allegiance) |
| Hirabayashi v. United States | 320 U.S. 81 (1943) | curfews against members of a minority group during a war with their country of origin |
| Yasui v. United States | 320 U.S. 115 (1943) | validity of curfews against U.S. citizens of a minority group during war |
| Prince v. Massachusetts | 321 U.S. 158 (1944) | religious liberty and child labor |
| Follett v. Town of McCormick | 321 U.S. 573 (1944) | licensing fees for distribution of religious materials violates freedom of religion |
| Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co. v. Muscoda Local No. 123 | 321 U.S. 590 (1944) | miners' travel time was "work" under the Fair Labor Standards Act |
| Smith v. Allwright | 321 U.S. 649 (1944) | voting rights, segregation |
| United States v. Ballard | 322 U.S. 78 (1944) | religious fraud |
| NLRB v. Hearst Publications | 322 U.S. 111 (1944) | determining whether newsboys are employees or independent contractors for the purposes of the National Labor Relations Act |
| Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co. | 322 U.S. 238 (1944) | intrinsic fraud can justify equitable relief when committed by officers of the court |
| United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Association | 322 U.S. 533 (1944) | applying Sherman Antitrust Act to insurance contracts |
| Skidmore v. Swift & Co. | 323 U.S. 134 (1944) | early standard for judicial review of interpretive rules made by government agencies |
| Korematsu v. United States | 323 U.S. 214 (1944) | Japanese Internment camps |
| Ex parte Endo | 323 U.S. 283 (1944) | Japanese-American internment and loyalty, decided same day as Korematsu |
| United States v. Willow River Power Co. | 324 U.S. 499 (1945) | nature of property rights which constitute a compensable taking |
| Cramer v. United States | 325 U.S. 1 (1945) | conviction for treason |
| Jewell Ridge Coal Corp. v. United Mine Workers of America | 325 U.S. 161 (1945) | underground travel time of coal miners was considered compensable work time under the Fair Labor Standards Act |
| Southern Pacific Company v. Arizona | 325 U.S. 761 (1945) | Dormant Commerce Clause |
| Guaranty Trust Co. v. York | 326 U.S. 99 (1945) | Interpretation of the Erie Doctrine |
| United States v. Detroit & Cleveland Nav. Co. | 326 U.S. 236 (1945) | regulation of common carrier capacity under the Interstate Commerce Act |
| International Shoe Co. v. Washington | 326 U.S. 310 (1945) | personal jurisdiction of states over corporations in other states |
| Commissioner v. Flowers | 326 U.S. 465 (1946) | tax deduction for travel expenses under the Internal Revenue Code |
| Marsh v. Alabama | 326 U.S. 501 (1946) | First and Fourteenth Amendments still applicable against a company town |
| Tucker v. Texas | 326 U.S. 517 (1946) | Local ordinance prohibiting distribution of religious literature violated Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment |
| Estep v. United States | 327 U.S. 114 (1946) | judicial review of draft board determinations |
| Duncan v. Kahanamoku | 327 U.S. 304 (1946) | constitutionality of military tribunals under the Hawaiian Organic Act |
| Commissioner v. Wilcox | 327 U.S. 404 (1946) | embezzled funds not considered taxable income, later overruled by James v. United States |
| Lavender v. Kurn | 327 U.S. 645 (1946) | sufficiency of evidence to send a case to a jury |
| North American Co. v. Securities and Exchange Commission | 327 U.S. 686 (1946) | utility divestiture under the Public Utility Holding Company Act |
| Girouard v. United States | 328 U.S. 61 (1946) | pacifism is not a reason to deny an immigrant citizenship. Overturned United States v. Schwimmer (1929). |
| United States v. Causby | 328 U.S. 256 (1946) | the ancient common law doctrine of ad coelum has no legal effect "in the modern world." |
| Securities and Exchange Commission v. W. J. Howey Co. | 328 U.S. 293 (1946) | definition of "investment contract" under the Securities Act of 1933 |
| Colegrove v. Green | 328 U.S. 549 (1946) | federal courts had no power to become involved in state legislative apportionment—later overruled by Baker v. Carr |
| Pinkerton v. United States | 328 U.S. 640 (1946) | the doctrine of conspiracy, Pinkerton Liability |
| Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co. | 328 U.S. 680 (1946) Girouard v. United States, 328 U.S. 61 (1946) | Preliminary work activities are covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act |