Understanding Legal Realism is difficult unless one has some knowledge of the classical legal thought with which it found fault.  Perhaps most illustrative of the decisions produced by classicism are those which strengthened the position of corporations with respect to their workers and to consumers:

Decisions assisting businesses in preventing strikes:

• In re Debs, 158 U.S. 564 (1895)
• Vegalahn v. Guntner, 167 Mass 92 (1896)
• Walker v. Cronin, 107 Mass. 555 (1971) 

Decisions limiting the ability of the legislature to control monopolies:

• United States v. E.C. Knight Co., 156 U.S. 1 (1895)

Decisions limiting the ability of legislatures to interfere with property rights or "freedom of contract":

• Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry. Co. v. Minnesota, 134 U.S. 418 (1890)
• Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 45 (1905)
• Reagan v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Co., 154 U.S. 362 (1894)