List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 15

Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court of the United States
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Judge term length	life tenure, subject to impeachment and removal
Number of positions	9 (by statute)
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Chief Justice of the United States
Currently	John Roberts
Since	September 29, 2005; 16 years ago

This is a list of the 42 cases reported in volume 15 (2 Wheat.) of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States from February 1817 to March 1817.^[2]

Nominative reports[]

In 1874, the U.S. government created the United States Reports, and retroactively numbered older privately-published case reports as part of the new series. As a result, cases appearing in volumes 1–90 of U.S. Reports have dual citation forms; one for the volume number of U.S. Reports, and one for the volume number of the reports named for the relevant reporter of decisions (these are called "nominative reports").

Henry Wheaton[]

Starting with the 14th volume of U.S. Reports, the Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States was Henry Wheaton. Wheaton was Reporter of Decisions from 1816 to 1827, covering volumes 14 through 25 of United States Reports which correspond to volumes 1 through 12 of his Wheaton's Reports. As such, the dual form of citation to, for example, Beverly v. Brooke is 15 U.S. (2 Wheat.) 100 (1817).

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of 15 U.S. (2 Wheat.)[]

The Supreme Court is established by Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution of the United States, which says: "The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court . . .". The size of the Court is not specified; the Constitution leaves it to Congress to set the number of justices. Under the Judiciary Act of 1789 Congress originally fixed the number of justices at six (one chief justice and five associate justices).^[3] Since 1789 Congress has varied the size of the Court from six to seven, nine, ten, and back to nine justices (always including one chief justice). When the cases in 15 U.S. (2 Wheat.) were decided, the Court comprised these seven justices:

Justice	Office	Home State	Succeeded	Date confirmed by the Senate (Vote)	Tenure on Supreme Court
John Marshall	Chief Justice	Virginia	Oliver Ellsworth	January 27, 1801 (Acclamation)	February 4, 1801 – July 6, 1835 (Died)
Bushrod Washington	Associate Justice	Virginia	James Wilson	December 20, 1798 (Acclamation)	November 9, 1798 (Recess Appointment) – November 26, 1829 (Died)
William Johnson	Associate Justice	South Carolina	Alfred Moore	March 24, 1804 (Acclamation)	May 7, 1804 – August 4, 1834 (Died)
Henry Brockholst Livingston	Associate Justice	New York	William Paterson	December 17, 1806 (Acclamation)	January 20, 1807 – March 18, 1823 (Died)
Thomas Todd	Associate Justice	Kentucky	new seat	March 2, 1807 (Acclamation)	March 3, 1807 – February 7, 1826 (Died)
Gabriel Duvall	Associate Justice	Maryland	Samuel Chase	November 18, 1811 (Acclamation)	November 23, 1811 – January 12, 1835 (Resigned)
Joseph Story	Associate Justice	Massachusetts	William Cushing	November 18, 1811 (Acclamation)	February 3, 1812 – September 10, 1845 (Died)

Notable Case in 15 U.S. (2 Wheat.)[]

Laidlaw v. Organ[]

Laidlaw v. Organ, 15 U.S. (2 Wheat.) 178 (1817), established the rule of caveat emptor in the United States. The Supreme Court's opinion can be interpreted to mean that withholding information calculated to deceive the other party can cause a contract to be void on equitable grounds. Laidlaw has been recognized by US legal scholars as a central case in the history of US contract law. It was the first case in which the Supreme Court adopted the rule of caveat emptor and "was one of the first cases to come before the [Supreme] Court involving a contract for future delivery of a commodity."^[4] It is also the first case to start to articulate a doctrine of forbidding active concealment.

Citation style[]

Under the Judiciary Act of 1789 the federal court structure at the time comprised District Courts, which had general trial jurisdiction; Circuit Courts, which had mixed trial and appellate (from the US District Courts) jurisdiction; and the United States Supreme Court, which had appellate jurisdiction over the federal District and Circuit courts—and for certain issues over state courts. The Supreme Court also had limited original jurisdiction (i.e., in which cases could be filed directly with the Supreme Court without first having been heard by a lower federal or state court). There were one or more federal District Courts and/or Circuit Courts in each state, territory, or other geographical region.

Bluebook citation style is used for case names, citations, and jurisdictions.

"C.C.D." = United States Circuit Court for the District of . . .
- e.g.,"C.C.D.N.J." = United States Circuit Court for the District of New Jersey
"D." = United States District Court for the District of . . .
- e.g.,"D. Mass." = United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
"E." = Eastern; "M." = Middle; "N." = Northern; "S." = Southern; "W." = Western
- e.g.,"C.C.S.D.N.Y." = United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York
- e.g.,"M.D. Ala." = United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama
"Adm." = Admiralty Court (a federal court)
"Ct. Cl." = United States Court of Claims
"Ct. Com. Pl." = Court of Common Pleas (a state court)
The abbreviation of a state's name alone indicates the highest appellate court in that state's judiciary at the time.
- e.g.,"Pa." = Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- e.g.,"Me." = Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

List of cases in 15 U.S. (2 Wheat.)[]

Case Name	Page & year	Opinion of the Court	Concurring opinion(s)	Dissenting opinion(s)	Lower court	Disposition of case
Slocum v. Mayberry	1 (1817)	Marshall	none	none	R.I.	affirmed
Greenleaf v. Cook	13 (1817)	Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
Otis v. Walter	18 (1817)	Johnson	none	none	Mass.	reversed
M'Iver v. Ragan	25 (1817)	Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.W. Tenn.	affirmed
Hunter v. Bryant	32 (1817)	Johnson	none	none	C.C.D. Pa.	reversed
Duvall v. Craig	45 (1817)	Story	none	none	C.C.D. Ky.	reversed
Coolidge v. Payson	66 (1817)	Marshall	none	none	not indicated	affirmed
The Dos Hermanos	76 (1817)	Story	none	none	D. La.	affirmed
Beverly v. Brooke	100 (1817)	Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
McCoul v. Lekamp's Adm'x	111 (1817)	Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Va.	affirmed
United States v. Sheldon	119 (1817)	Washington	none	none	C.C.D. Vt.	remanded to divided lower court
The Mary	123 (1817)	Johnson	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	reversed
The San Pedro	132 (1817)	Washington	none	none	Super. Ct. Terr. Miss.	dismissed
The Ariadne	143 (1817)	Washington	none	none	C.C.D. Pa.	affirmed
The William King	148 (1817)	Johnson	none	none	C.C.D.N.Y.	affirmed
The Fortuna	161 (1817)	Johnson	none	none	C.C.D.N.C.	remanded to divided lower court
The Bothnea	169 (1817)	Johnson	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	reversed
Laidlaw v. Organ	178 (1817)	Marshall	none	none	D. La.	reversed
Rutherford v. Greene's Heirs	196 (1817)	Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Tenn.	affirmed
Johnson v. Pannel's Heirs	206 (1817)	Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Ky.	affirmed
Patterson v. United States	221 (1817)	Washington	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	reversed
The Pizarro	227 (1817)	Story	none	none	C.C.D. Ga.	affirmed
United States v. Tenbroek	248 (1817)	Duvall	none	none	C.C.D. Pa.	dismissed
Chirac v. Chirac's Lessee	259 (1817)	Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	affirmed
The George	278 (1817)	Johnson	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	affirmed
The Argo	287 (1817)	Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	continued
Morgan's Heirs v. Morgan	290 (1817)	Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Ky.	reversed
Liter v. Green	306 (1817)	Story	none	none	C.C.D. Ky.	affirmed
Shipp v. Miller's Heirs	316 (1817)	Story	Marshall (in part)	Marshall (in part)	C.C.D. Ky.	affirmed
The Anna Maria	327 (1817)	Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	reversed
Colson v. Thompson	336 (1817)	Washington	none	none	C.C.D. Ky.	reversed
The Eleanor	345 (1817)	Johnson	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	dismissed
Inglee v. Coolidge	363 (1817)	Story	none	none	Mass.	dismissed for want of jurisdiction
M'Cluny v. Silliman	369 (1817)	per curiam	none	none	Ohio	mandamus denied
The London Packet	371 (1817)	Marshall	none	none	not indicated	continued
Lenox v. Roberts	373 (1817)	Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
Colson v. Lewis	377 (1817)	Washington	none	none	C.C.D. Ky.	remanded to divided lower court
Leeds v. Marine Ins. Co.	380 (1817)	Washington	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
Raborg v. Peyton	385 (1817)	Story	none	none	C.C.D.C.	remanded to divided lower court
Union Bank v. Laird	390 (1817)	Story	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
United States v. Barker	395 (1817)	Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.N.Y.	dismissed for want of jurisdiction
Thelusson v. Smith	396 (1817)	Washington	none	none	C.C.D. Pa.	affirmed

Notes and references[]

^ Lawson, Gary; Seidman, Guy (2001). "When Did the Constitution Become Law?". Notre Dame Law Review. 77: 1–37.
^ Anne Ashmore, DATES OF SUPREME COURT DECISIONS AND ARGUMENTS, Library, Supreme Court of the United States, 26 December 2018.
^ "Supreme Court Research Guide". Georgetown Law Library. Retrieved April 7, 2021.
^ Morton J. Horwitz (1977). The Transformation of American Law, 1780–1860. Harvard University Press. p. 182. ISBN 978-0674903715.

External links[]

[1] Case reports in volume 15 (2 Wheat.) from Court Listener
[2] Case reports in volume 15 (2 Wheat.) from the Caselaw Access Project of Harvard Law School
[3] Case reports in volume 15 (2 Wheat.) from Google Scholar
[4] Case reports in volume 15 (2 Wheat.) of Justia
[5] Case reports in volume 15 (2 Wheat.) from Open Jurist
Website of the United States Supreme Court
United States Courts website about the Supreme Court
National Archives, Records of the Supreme Court of the United States
American Bar Association, How Does the Supreme Court Work?
The Supreme Court Historical Society

[1] Lawson, Gary; Seidman, Guy (2001). "When Did the Constitution Become Law?". Notre Dame Law Review. 77: 1–37.

[2] Anne Ashmore, DATES OF SUPREME COURT DECISIONS AND ARGUMENTS, Library, Supreme Court of the United States, 26 December 2018.

[3] "Supreme Court Research Guide". Georgetown Law Library. Retrieved April 7, 2021.

[4] Morton J. Horwitz (1977). The Transformation of American Law, 1780–1860. Harvard University Press. p. 182. ISBN 978-0674903715.

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