The common view of the Marbury vs Madison case is a myth.
Many people believe that Marbury v. Madison
established the Supreme Court as the sole,
exclusive and final authority of what
the Constitution says and means.
According to this myth the Supreme Court’s
opinions are the law of the land - never to be
questioned by anybody ever again.
People who believe in this myth say that Chief Justice John
Marshall made this the case through his own opinion in
Marbury, but Marshall said no such thing. Ever.
Believers point to one sentence in the Marbury opinion
to back up this myth:
“It is emphatically the province and duty of the
judicial department to say what the law is.”
If you take that on its own without any context,
you might think Marshall was really saying the court
had exclusive authority to interpret the
Constitution. But in reality, he was just asserting
the power of judicial review. Marshall never said
the supreme court has the sole or exclusive
authority to determine what the constitution
means - not even in Marbury. In fact, he said the
court itself was bound by the Constitution. 
He
wrote: The particular phraseology of the
Constitution…confirms and strengthens the
principle…that a law repugnant to the
Constitution is void, and that courts, as well as
other departments, are bound by that instrument."
Nowhere does Constitution give any federal
court supreme authority over the other two
branches - much less the states. This is a myth.
The Constitution itself is supreme, not the
opinion of any person or group of people in any
branch of government.
