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[rivka]

Following up on an interesting conversation in fairoriana's journal, I'm curious about what people know and/or remember about U.S. Supreme Court decisions.

Before clicking through, please see how many U.S. Supreme Court decisions you can name off the top of your head.

[Poll #1269935]

Comments

[lizzibabe.livejournal.com]

I had trouble summarizing nearly all of them with the exception of three. The best I could do was a sentence stating what they led to.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

That's what I'm mostly thinking of when I say "summarize" - being able to say what right they established or what principle they spelled out. As in, "In re Gault established that minors accused of crimes have the same due process rights as adults," not as in knowing who Gault was and what happened to him.