landmark decision

C760
concept

A landmark decision is a court ruling that establishes a significant new legal principle or precedent, often reshaping the interpretation or application of the law.

All labels observed (10)

Label Occurrences
landmark decision canonical 97
legal decision 5
landmark election law case 3

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: landmark decision
Generated description
A landmark decision is a court ruling that establishes a significant new legal principle or precedent, often reshaping the interpretation or application of the law.

Instances (113)

Instance Via concept surface
United States v. One Book Called Ulysses —
Bolling v. Sharpe —
Ex parte Young —
United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Association —
Slaughter-House Cases —
majority opinion in Bowers v. Hardwick Supreme Court majority opinion
Roe v. Wade —
Bush v. Gore —
Eisenstadt v. Baird —
Katz v. United States —
District of Columbia v. Heller —
Roth v. United States —
Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States —
United States v. American Tobacco Co. —
Doe v. Bolton —
Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority —
Kelo v. City of New London —
Adkins v. Children’s Hospital —
Powell v. Alabama —
Planned Parenthood v. Casey —
Employment Division v. Smith —
Corfield v. Coryell legal decision
Supreme Court of New Hampshire v. Piper —
Mapp v. Ohio —
United States v. Virginia (1996) majority opinion Supreme Court majority opinion
Yorta Yorta v Victoria —
Browder v. Gayle —
United States v. Booker —
Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt —
De Jonge v. Oregon —
Near v. Minnesota —
United States v. AT&T landmark telecommunications case
McDonald v. City of Chicago —
Loving v. Virginia —
Boumediene v. Bush —
Views on individual communications authoritative decision
Narmada Water Disputes Tribunal Award legal decision
Crawford v. Washington —
Batson v. Kentucky —
Prigg v. Pennsylvania —
Roper v. Simmons —
Graham v. Florida —
Estelle v. Gamble —
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization —
The Prize Cases —
Argersinger v. Hamlin —
West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish —
Nebbia v. New York —
Fletcher v. Peck —
Johnson v. Zerbst —