Read the record. Follow the disagreement.
Explore controversial Canadian and US cases through the decisions that shaped them: competing arguments, conflicting courts, dissents and reversals.
Public historical research, separate from your private cases. Each collection ends at the dates shown. Summaries describe the judgments at that time; they are not a current-law citator or an eligibility assessment. Editorial notes are in English.
5 collections
Canada · 1988–1993
Three Canadian judgments separate bodily autonomy, a partner’s attempted veto, and the limits of provincial power.
When does a restriction on abortion become an unconstitutional criminal barrier, and whose asserted rights can support an injunction?
Follow the caseUnited States · 1973–2022
Follow Roe and Casey through clinic-regulation disputes, a divided application of precedent, and Dobbs.
How can a constitutional rule survive for decades, change its test, and then be expressly overruled?
Follow the caseUnited States · 2023–2024
A Fifth Circuit ruling on FDA regulation reached a unanimous Supreme Court reversal on the threshold question of who could sue.
Can a court decide an emotionally charged dispute before the plaintiffs establish a concrete injury?
Follow the caseUnited States · 2014–2015
The Fourth and Sixth Circuits reached opposite conclusions about same-sex marriage before Obergefell resolved the conflict.
How could federal appellate courts applying the same amendment reach incompatible answers?
Follow the caseCanada · 2012–2015
Carter moved from a trial victory to an appellate reversal and then a unanimous Supreme Court ruling, against the background of Rodriguez.
When may a trial court revisit a constitutional question already answered by a higher court?
Follow the caseSources reviewed 2026-11-08. Holdings and separate opinions are summarized in our own words.