Primary Sources

Note:  In the main text, endnotes for secondary sources are designated by a number followed by a lowercase "s," while primary sources are designated by a lowercase "p" and hyperlinked to full-text versions on separate pages.  All documents designated as primary sources are housed on pages within the Public/Private Dichotomy web site or on other reliable sites on the Internet.

First references to primary sources are hyperlinked to this list.  Subsequent references are hyperlinked to full-text versions of original documents. 

  1. Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 493 (1928).

  2. Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren, "The Right to Privacy," Harvard Law Review, vol. 4, No. 193 (December 15, 1890).

  3. State v. A.B. Rhodes, 61 N.C. 453 (1868).

  4. Victoria Woodhull, "Constitutional Equality," a memorial to the Hon. the Judiciary committee of the Senate and the House of representatives of the Congress of the United States" (New York, January 2, 1871).

  5. Bradwell v. Illinois, 83 U.S. 130 (1872).

  6. John H. De May and Alfred B. Scattergood v. Alvira Roberts, 46 MICH. 146 (1881).

  7. Union Pacific Railway Company, Plff. in Err.v. Clara L. Botsford, 141 U. S. 250 (1891).

  8. Schuyler v. Curtis et al., 15 N.Y. 781 (1891).

  9. Philip Schuyler, Respondent, v. Ernest Curtis et al., Alice Donlevy et al., Appellants, 147 N.Y. 434; 42 N.E. 22; 1895 N.Y. (1895).

  10. Abigail M. Roberson, an Infant, by Margaret E. Bell, her Guardian ad Litem, Respondent, v. The Rochester Folding Box Company et al., Appellants, 171 N.Y. 538; 64 N.E. 442 (1902).

  11. Abigail Roberson, letter to the New York Times, printed on page 1, July 27, 1904.

  12. Pavesich v. New England Life Insurance Co., 122 Ga. 190 (1905).