Includes bibliographical references.

Powell v. Alabama : the Supreme Court confronts "legal lynchings" / Michael J. Klarman -- Mapp v. Ohio : the first shot fired in the Warren Court's criminal procedure "revolution" / Yale Kamisar -- Gideon v. Wainwright and Strickland v. Washington : broken promises / David Cole -- Brady v. Maryland : from adversarial gamesmanship toward the search for innocence? / Stephanos Bibas -- Miranda v. Arizona : a modest but important legacy / Stephen Schulhofer -- Hoffa v. United States : secret agents in private spaces / Tracey Maclin -- Katz v. United States : the limits of aphorism / David A. Sklansky -- Duncan v. Louisiana : how bigotry in the bayou led to the federal regulation of state juries / Nancy J. King -- Terry v. Ohio : the Fourth Amendment reasonableness of police stops and frisks based on less than probable cause / John Q. Barrett -- United States v. Brignoni-Ponce and United States v. Martinez-Fuerte : the road to racial profiling / Bernard E. Harcourt -- Bordenkircher v. Hayes : plea bargaining and the decline of the rule of law / William J. Stuntz -- Batson v. Kentucky : the constitutional challenges of peremptory challenges / Pamela S. Karlan -- United States v. Salerno : the constitutionality of regulatory detention / Daniel Richman -- United States v. Mistretta : the Constitution and the sentencing guidelines / Kate Stith.