| The demise of the right-privilege distinction in constitutional law WW Van Alstyne Harvard Law Review, 1439-1464, 1968 | 562 | 1968 |
| = A Critical Guide to Marbury v. Madison WW Van Alstyne Judicial Review and Judicial Power in the Supreme Court, 331-377, 2014 | 532 | 2014 |
| State Action WW Van Alstyne, KL Karst Stanford Law Review, 3-58, 1961 | 381 | 1961 |
| Second Amendment and the Personal Right to Arms, The W Van Alstyne Duke Lj 43, 1236, 1993 | 305 | 1993 |
| Rites of Passage: Race, the Supreme Court, and the Constitution W Van Alstyne U. Chi. L. Rev. 46, 775, 1978 | 241 | 1978 |
| The Second Death of Federalism WW Van Alstyne Mich. L. Rev. 83, 1709, 1984 | 219 | 1984 |
| Cracks in the New Property Adjudicative Due Process In the Administrative State WV Alstyne Cornell L. Rev. 62, 445, 1976 | 213 | 1976 |
| A Critical Guide to Ex Parte McCardle WW Van Alstyne Ariz. L. Rev. 15, 229, 1973 | 209 | 1973 |
| Academic freedom and the first amendment in the supreme court of the United States: an unhurried historical review WW Van Alstyne Law & Contemp. Probs. 53, 79, 1990 | 185 | 1990 |
| Interpretations of the First Amendment WW Van Alstyne (No Title), 1984 | 176 | 1984 |
| Trends in the Supreme Court: Mr. Jefferson's Crumbling Wall-A Comment on Lynch v. Donnelly W Van Alstyne Duke LJ, 770, 1984 | 112 | 1984 |
| The Fourteenth Amendment, the" Right" to Vote, and the Understanding of the Thirty-Ninth Congress WW Van Alstyne The Supreme Court Review 1965, 33-86, 1965 | 109 | 1965 |
| A Graphic Review of the Free Speech Clause W Van Alstyne Calif. L. Rev. 70, 107, 1982 | 104 | 1982 |
| Congress the President and the Power to Declare War: A Requiem for Vietnam W Van Alstyne U. Pa. L. Rev. 121, 1, 1972 | 95 | 1972 |
| The Failure of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act Under Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment WW Van Alstyne Duke LJ 46, 291, 1996 | 94 | 1996 |
| A Critical Guide to Marbury v WW Van Alstyne Madison, 1969DUKE LJ 1 (3), 1969 | 94 | 1969 |
| The Role of Congress in Determining Incidental Powers of the President and of the Federal Courts: A Comment on the Horizontal Effect of the Sweeping Clause WW Van Alstyne Law and Contemporary Problems 40 (2), 102-134, 1976 | 93 | 1976 |
| Of law and the river and of nihilism and academic freedom PW Martin J. Legal Educ. 35, 1, 1985 | 84 | 1985 |
| The Hazards to the Press of Claiming a Preferred Position WW Van Alstyne Hastings LJ 28, 761, 1976 | 80 | 1976 |
| Interpreting This Constitution: The Unhelpful Contributions of Special Theories of Judicial Review WV Alstyne U. Fla. L. Rev. 35, 209, 1983 | 77 | 1983 |