List of United States Supreme Court cases involving the First Amendment

• McGowan v. Maryland (1961)
• Braunfeld v. Brown (1961)
• Gallagher v. Crown Kosher Super Market of Mass., Inc. (1961)
• Thornton v. Caldor (1985)

• Cochran v. Louisiana State Board of Education (1930)
• Everson v. Board of Education (1947)
• Abington School District v. Schempp (1963)
• Board of Education v. Allen (1968)
• Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971)
• Tilton v. Richardson (1971)
• Committee for Public Education and Religious Liberty v. Nyquist (1973)
• Meek v. Pittenger (1975)
• Roemer v. Board of Public Works of Maryland (1976)
• Wolman v. Walter (1977)
• Committee for Public Education and Religious Liberty v. Regan (1980)
• Mueller v. Allen (1983)
• Grand Rapids School District v. Ball (1985)
• Aguilar v. Felton (1985)
• Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District (1993)
• Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002)
• Locke v. Davey (2004)
• Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn (2011)
• Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer (2017)
• Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue (2020)
• Carson v. Makin (2022)

• Lynch v. Donnelly (1984)
• Board of Trustees of Scarsdale v. McCreary (1985)
• County of Allegheny v. ACLU Greater Pittsburgh Chapter (1989)
• McCreary County v. ACLU of Kentucky (2005)
• Van Orden v. Perry (2005)
• Pleasant Grove City v. Summum (2009)
• American Legion v. American Humanist Association (2019)
• Shurtleff v. City of Boston (2022)

• Marsh v. Chambers (1984)
• Town of Greece v. Galloway (2014)

• McCollum v. Board of Education (1948)
• Zorach v. Clauson (1952)
• Engel v. Vitale (1962)
• Abington School District v. Schempp (1963)
• Epperson v. Arkansas (1968)
• Stone v. Graham (1980)
• Rosenberger v. University of Virginia (1995)
• Agostini v. Felton (1997)
• Mitchell v. Helms (2000)

• Wallace v. Jaffree (1985)
• Lee v. Weisman (1992)
• Santa Fe Independent School Dist. v. Doe (2000)
• Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow (2004)

• Edwards v. Aguillard (1987)

• Larkin v. Grendel’s Den (1982)
• Bowen v. Kendrick (1988)
• Board of Education of Kiryas Joel Village School v. Grumet (1994)

• Flast v. Cohen (1968)
• Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church & State (1982)
• Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation (2007)

• Walz v. Tax Commission of the City of New York (1970)
• Bob Jones University v. United States (1983)
• Texas Monthly, Inc. v. Bullock (1989)

• Larson v. Valente (1982)

• Reynolds v. United States (1878)
• Davis v. Beason (1890)

• Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association (1988)
• City of Boerne v. Flores (1997)

• R. A. V. v. City of St. Paul (1992)
• Good News Club v. Milford Central School (2001)
• Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal (2006)
• Fulton v. City of Philadelphia (2021)

• Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972)
• Widmar v. Vincent (1981)
• Board of Education of the Westside Community Schools v. Mergens (1990)
• Lamb's Chapel v. Center Moriches Union Free School District (1993)
• Rosenberger v. Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia (1995)

• Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board v. Pinette (1995)

• United States v. Ballard (1944)
• Kedroff v. Saint Nicholas Cathedral (1952)
• Presbyterian Church v. Hull Church (1969)
• Jones v. Wolf (1979)
• Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (2012)
• Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru (2020)

• Sherbert v. Verner (1963)
• Trans World Airlines v. Hardison (1977)
• Ohio Civil Rights Commission v. Dayton Christian Schools (1986)
• Corporation of Presiding Bishop of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints v. Amos (1987)
• Employment Division v. Smith (1990)

• Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942)
• Torcaso v. Watkins (1961)
• McDaniel v. Paty (1978)
• Thomas v. Review Board of the Indiana Employment Security Division (1981)
• Goldman v. Weinberger (1986)
• Bowen v. Roy (1986)

• Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah (1993)

• Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940)
• Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940)
• Cox v. New Hampshire (1941)
• Jones v. City of Opelika (I) (1942)
• Marsh v. Alabama (1942)
• Murdock v. Pennsylvania (1943)
• Jones v. City of Opelika (II) (1943)
• West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)
• Prince v. Massachusetts (1944)
• Heffron v. International Society for Krishna Consciousness (1981)

• Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo (2020)
• Tandon v. Newsom (2021)

• Valentine v. Chrestensen (1942)
• Rowan v. U.S. Post Office Dept. (1970)
• Pittsburgh Press Co. v. Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations (1973)
• Lehman v. Shaker Heights (1974)
• Bigelow v. Commonwealth of Virginia (1974)
• Virginia State Pharmacy Board v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council (1976)
• Bates v. State Bar of Arizona (1977)
• Linmark Associates, Inc. v. Willingboro (1977)
• Ohralik v. Ohio State Bar Assn. (1978)
• Friedman v. Rogers (1979)
• Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. v. Public Service Commission (1980)
• Consol. Edison Co. v. Public Serv. Comm'n (1980)
• Metromedia, Inc. v. San Diego (1981)
• Hoffman Estates v. The Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. (1982)
• Bolger v. Youngs Drug Products Corp. (1983)
• Edenfield v. Fane (1993)
• 44 Liquormart, Inc. v. Rhode Island (1996)
• Expressions Hair Design v. Schneiderman (2017)
• Iancu v. Brunetti (2019)

• Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940)
• West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)
• Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo (1974)
• Wooley v. Maynard (1977)
• Agency for International Development v. Alliance for Open Society (2013)
• Agency for International Development v. Alliance for Open Society (2020)

Cases that consider the First Amendment implications of payments mandated by the state going to use in part for speech by third parties

• Abood v. Detroit Board of Education (1977)
• Communications Workers of America v. Beck (1978)
• Chicago Local Teachers Union v. Hudson (1986)
• Keller v. State Bar of California (1990)
• Lehnert v. Ferris Faculty Ass'n (1991)
• Glickman v. Wileman Brothers & Elliott Inc. (1997)
• Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System v. Southworth (2000)
• United States v. United Foods, Inc. (2001)
• Johanns v. Livestock Marketing Association (2005)
• Davenport v. Washington Education Association (2007)
• Locke v. Karass (2008)
• Knox v. Service Employees International Union, Local 1000 (2012)
• Harris v. Quinn (2014)
• Friedrichs v. California Teachers Ass'n (2016)
• Janus v. AFSCME (2018)

• American Communications Association v. Douds (1950)
• Garner v. Board of Public Works (1951)
• Adler v. Board of Ed. of City of New York (1952)
• Wieman v. Updegraff (1952)
• Speiser v. Randall (1958)
• Cramp v. Board of Public Instruction (1961)
• Keyishian v. Board of Regents (1965)
• Communist Party of Indiana v. Whitcomb (1974)

• R. A. V. v. City of St. Paul (1992)
• Reed v. Town of Gilbert (2015)
• City of Austin, Texas v. Reagan National Advertising of Texas, Inc. (2022)

• City of Ladue v. Gilleo (1994)

• Debs v. United States (1919)
• Schenck v. United States (1919)
• Abrams v. United States (1919)
• Gitlow v. New York (1925)
• Whitney v. California (1927)
• Dennis v. United States (1951)
• Communist Party v. Subversive Activities Control Board (1955)
• Yates v. United States (1957)
• Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969)

• United States v. Alvarez (2012)
• Susan B. Anthony List v. Driehaus (2014)

• Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940)
• Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942)
• Terminiello v. Chicago (1949)
• Feiner v. New York (1951)
• National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie (1977)
• R. A. V. v. City of St. Paul (1992)
• Snyder v. Phelps (2011)

• Hague v. CIO (1939)
• Schneider v. New Jersey (1939)
• Martin v. Struthers (1943)
• NAACP v. Alabama (1958)
• Edwards v. South Carolina (1963)
• Cox v. Louisiana (1965)
• Brown v. Louisiana (1966)
• Adderley v. Florida (1966)
• Carroll v. Town of Princess Anne (1968)
• Coates v. Cincinnati (1971)
• Organization for a Better Austin v. Keefe (1971)
• Southeastern Promotions, Ltd. v. Conrad (1975)
• Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins (1980)
• Postal Service v. Council of Greenburgh Civic Assns. (1981)
• Christian Legal Society v. Martinez (2010)
• Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck (2019)
• Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta (2021)

Cases concerning restrictions on the time, place, and manner of speech

• Chicago Police Dept. v. Mosley (1972)
• Grayned v. City of Rockford (1972)
• Ward v. Rock Against Racism (1989)
• Schenck v. Pro-Choice Network of Western New York (1997)
• Hill v. Colorado (2000)
• McCullen v. Coakley (2014)
• Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky (2018)

Cases about restrictions on speech by third parties funded by the government.

• Rust v. Sullivan (1991)
• Legal Services Corp. v. Velazquez (2001)

Cases concerned with the definition of obscenity and whether a particular work or type of material is obscene.

• Roth v. United States (1957)
• Alberts v. California, (1957)
• One, Inc. v. Olesen, (1958)
• MANual Enterprises v. Day, (1962)
• Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964)
• Memoirs v. Massachusetts, (1966)
• Kois v. Wisconsin (1972)
• Miller v. California (1973)
• Jenkins v. Georgia (1974)
• New York v. Ferber (1982)
• Osborne v. Ohio (1990)
• United States v. Stevens (2010)

Appeals of criminal convictions for possessing, selling or distributing obscenity that focused on that issue

• Rosen v. United States (1896)
• Butler v. Michigan (1957)
• Smith v. California, (1959)
• Ginzburg v. United States, (1966)
• Mishkin v. New York, (1966)
• Redrup v. New York (1967)
• Ginsberg v. New York (1968)
• Stanley v. Georgia (1969)
• Blount v. Rizzi (1971)
• United States v. Reidel (1971)
• Heller v. New York (1973)
• United States v. Orito (1973)
• Erznoznik v. City of Jacksonville (1975)
• United States v. X-Citement Video (1994)

Cases involving the search and seizure of allegedly obscene material

• Marcus v. Search Warrant, (1961)
• Quantity of Books v. Kansas (1964)
• Lee Art Theatre, Inc. v. Virginia (1968)
• United States v. Thirty-seven Photographs (1971)
• United States v. 12 200-ft. Reels of Film (1973)
• Roaden v. Kentucky (1973)
• Lo-Ji Sales, Inc., v. New York (1979)
• Maryland v. Macon (1985)
• New York v. P.J. Video, Inc. (1986)

Cases dealing with civil and administrative regulatory procedures aimed at suppressing or restricting obscenity, such as film-licensing boards or zoning regulations.

• Mutual Film Corp. v. Industrial Commission of Ohio (1915)
• Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson (1952)
• Kingsley Books, Inc. v. Brown (1957)
• Kingsley Int'l Pictures Corp. v. Regents of Univ. of N. Y. (1959)
• Times Film Corp. v. Chicago (1961)
• Bantam Books v. Sullivan (1963)
• Freedman v. Maryland (1965)
• Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton (1973)
• Young v. American Mini Theatres (1976)
• Renton v. Playtime Theatres, Inc. (1986)
• United States v. Playboy Entertainment Group (2000)

Cases involving laws meant to restrict obscenity online

• Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union (1997)
• Ashcroft v. American Civil Liberties Union (2002)
• Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition (2002)

• Pickering v. Board of Education (1968)
• Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth (1972)
• Perry v. Sindermann (1972)
• Madison School District v. Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission (1976)
• Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle (1977)
• Givhan v. Western Line Consolidated School District (1979)
• Snepp v. United States (1980)
• Connick v. Myers (1983)
• Rankin v. McPherson (1987)
• Waters v. Churchill (1994)
• United States v. National Treasury Employees Union (1995)
• Board of Commissioners, Wabaunsee County v. Umbehr, (1996)
• San Diego v. Roe (2004)
• Garcetti v. Ceballos (2007)
• Borough of Duryea v. Guarnieri (2011)
• Lane v. Franks (2014)
• Heffernan v. City of Paterson (2016)
• Houston Community College System v. Wilson (2022)

• Ex parte Curtis (1882)
• United Public Workers v. Mitchell (1947)
• United States Civil Service Commission v. National Association of Letter Carriers (1973)
• Broadrick v. Oklahoma (1973)
• Elrod v. Burns (1976)
• Branti v. Finkel (1979)

Speech by students in public secondary schools

• Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969)
• Healy v. James (1972)
• Board of Education v. Pico (1982)
• Bethel School District No. 403 v. Fraser (1986)
• Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier (1988)
• Poling v. Murphy (1989)
• Guiles v. Marineau (2006)
• Morse v. Frederick (2007)
• Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L. (2021)

Cases in which it has been alleged governmental officials retaliated for protected speech made by private citizens who are not employed by said officials.

• Bridges v. California (1941)
• Pennekamp v. Florida (1946)
• Wood v. Georgia (1962)
• Haig v. Agee (1981)
• Gentile v. State Bar of Nevada (1991)
• Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach (2018)
• Nieves v. Bartlett (2019)

• United States v. O'Brien (1968)
• Cohen v. California (1971)
• Smith v. Goguen (1974)
• Texas v. Johnson (1989)
• United States v. Eichman (1990)
• City of Erie v. Pap's A.M. (2000)
• Virginia v. Black (2003)

• Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC (1968)
• CBS v. Democratic National Committee (1973)
• FCC v. League of Women Voters of California (1984)
• FCC v. Pacifica Foundation (1989)
• Turner Broadcasting v. FCC (1995)
• FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc. I (2009)
• FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc. II (2012)

• Beauharnais v. Illinois (1952)
• New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964)
• Garrison v. Louisiana (1964)
• Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts (1967)
• St. Amant v. Thompson (1968)
• Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. (1974)
• Time, Inc. v. Firestone (1976)
• Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. (1981)
• Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. v. Greenmoss Builders, Inc. (1985)
• McDonald v. Smith (1985)
• Hustler Magazine v. Falwell (1988)
• Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co. (1990)
• Hoeper v. Air Wisconsin (2014)

Cases pertaining to whether or not extending protections to speech constitutes government endorsement of speech.

• Walker v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans (2015)
• Matal v. Tam (2017)
• Iancu v. Brunetti (2019)

• Near v. Minnesota (1931)
• Lovell v. City of Griffin (1938)
• Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969)
• New York Times Co. v. United States (1971)
• Nebraska Press Assn. v. Stuart (1976)
• Houchins v. KQED, Inc. (1978)
• Tory v. Cochran (2005)
• Citizens United v. FEC (2010)

• Time, Inc. v. Hill (1967)
• Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. Cohn (1975)
• Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Virginia (1980)
• Florida Star v. B. J. F. (1989)
• Wilson v. Layne (1999)

• Grosjean v. American Press Co. (1936)
• Branzburg v. Hayes (1972)
• Minneapolis Star Tribune Company v. Commissioner (1983)