An Army of Lawyer-Davids, or, An Army of David-Lawyers Tom Smith

Here is my plan:  I am going to set up a web site where lawyers, law professors, or in fact, just about anybody, can vote on what they think the most important, influential U.S. Supreme Court cases have been in certain areas of law.  The idea is the exploit the Condorcet jury theorem/Wisdom of Crowds effect to get a really deeply authoritative list of such cases.  I have some money to do this, so I am not just flapping my jaws here.  The problem is, how should “areas of law” be defined?  “Constitutional law” is obviously too broad.  But “dormant commerce clause with respect to the regulation of firearms” is probably too narrow.  So my question is, how should these categories be defined?  “Abortion” seems about right to me, but what should the other categories be?  I don’t want them all to be constitutional law, either.  But, due to limitations of my data, it has to be U.S. Supreme Court cases.

I appeal to the learned readers of the Right Coast to help me out, and, of course, to other legal bloggers to link to this post and spread my plea far and wide.  If this web site is well designed, I predict interesting and cool results.  So, what would your suggestions for categories of Supreme Court decisions be?  Particularly helpful helpers will be rewarded in some appropriate manner, not least of all my undying gratitude.  Please comment below, or email me at tacsmith-at-gmail-dot-com.