Fundamental Cases in Procedural Law

Adam J. McKee

This text contains the heavily abridged and edited versions of important court cases centered on the law of criminal procedure.  This book is designed as a companion to my textbook Fundamentals of Procedural Law, but would make a good supplement to any course with an emphasis on constitutional rights and encounters with the criminal justice system.  Note that this is a continuation of the cases presented in Fundamental Cases on the Fourth Amendment.  

Section 1: Investigations

• Roviaro v. United States, 364 U.S. 53 (1957)
• Lewis v. United States, 385 U.S. 206 (1966)
• Colorado v. Connelly, 479 U.S. 157 (1986)
• Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966)
• Davis v. United States, 512 U.S. 452 (1994)
• New York v. Quarles, 467 U.S. 649 (1984)

Chapter 2: Protections

• Massiah v. United States, 377 U.S. 201 (1964)
• Patterson v. Illinois, 487 U.S. 285 (1988)
• McNeil v. Wisconsin, 501 U.S. 171 (1991)
• Cuyler v. Sullivan, 446 U.S. 335 (1980)
• Ross v. Moffit, 417 U.S. 600 (1974)
• Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984)
• Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co., 457 U.S. 922 (1982)
• Monell v. Department of Social Services, 436 U.S. 658 (1978)
• Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800 (1982)
• United States v. Calandra, 414 U.S. 338 (1974)
• Stone v. Powell, 428 U.S. 465 (1976)
• United States v. Lanier, 520 U.S. 259 (1997)
• United States v. Ewell, 383 U.S. 116 (1966)
• Ward v. Monroeville, 409 U.S. 57 (1972)
• Illinois v. Allen, 397 U.S. 337 (1970)

Chapter 3: Procedures Outside of Trial

• United States v. Wade, 388 U.S. 218 (1967)
• United States v. Dionisio, 410 U.S. 1 (1973)
• Simmons v. United States, 390 U.S. 377 (1968)
• Stack v. Boyle, 342 U.S. 1 (1951)
• United States v. Salerno, 481 US 739
• Cooper v. Oklahoma, 517 U.S. 348 (1996)
• Jackson v. Denno, 378 U.S. 368 (1964)
• Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238 (1969)
• Burns v. United States, 287 U.S. 216 (1932)
• Kansas v. Hendricks, 521 U.S. 346 (1997)
• Austin v. United States, 509 U.S. 602 (1993)
• Gardner v. Florida, 430 U.S. 349 (1977)
• Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002)

Last Modified:  08/21/2019