List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 172
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This is a list of the 48 cases reported in volume 172 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1898 and 1899.
Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 172 U.S.[]
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).[2] 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 volume 172 were decided the Court comprised the following nine members:
Portrait | Justice | Office | Home State | Succeeded | Date confirmed by the Senate (Vote) |
Tenure on Supreme Court |
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Melville Fuller | Chief Justice | Illinois | Morrison Waite | July 20, 1888 (41–20) |
October 8, 1888 – July 4, 1910 (Died) |
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John Marshall Harlan | Associate Justice | Kentucky | David Davis | November 29, 1877 (Acclamation) |
December 10, 1877 – October 14, 1911 (Died) |
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Horace Gray | Associate Justice | Massachusetts | Nathan Clifford | December 20, 1881 (51–5) |
January 9, 1882 – September 15, 1902 (Died) |
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David Josiah Brewer | Associate Justice | Kansas | Stanley Matthews | December 18, 1889 (53–11) |
January 6, 1890 – March 28, 1910 (Died) |
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Henry Billings Brown | Associate Justice | Michigan | Samuel Freeman Miller | December 29, 1890 (Acclamation) |
January 5, 1891 – May 28, 1906 (Retired) |
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George Shiras Jr. | Associate Justice | Pennsylvania | Joseph P. Bradley | July 26, 1892 (Acclamation) |
October 10, 1892 – February 23, 1903 (Retired) |
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Edward Douglass White | Associate Justice | Louisiana | Samuel Blatchford | February 19, 1894 (Acclamation) |
March 12, 1894 – December 18, 1910 (Continued as chief justice) |
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Rufus W. Peckham | Associate Justice | New York | Howell Edmunds Jackson | December 9, 1895 (Acclamation) |
January 6, 1896 – October 24, 1909 (Died) |
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Joseph McKenna | Associate Justice | California | Stephen Johnson Field | January 21, 1898 (Acclamation) |
January 26, 1898 – January 5, 1925 (Retired) |
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.
The Judiciary Act of 1891 created the United States Courts of Appeals and reassigned the jurisdiction of most routine appeals from the district and circuit courts to these appellate courts. The Act created nine new courts that were originally known as the "United States Circuit Courts of Appeals." The new courts had jurisdiction over most appeals of lower court decisions. The Supreme Court could review either legal issues that a court of appeals certified or decisions of court of appeals by writ of certiorari.
Bluebook citation style is used for case names, citations, and jurisdictions.
- "# Cir." = United States Court of Appeals
- e.g., "3d Cir." = United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- "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
- "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 volume 172 U.S.[]
Case Name | Page & year | Opinion of the Court | Concurring opinion(s) | Dissenting opinion(s) | Lower Court | Disposition of case |
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City of Walla Walla v. Walla Walla Water Co. | 1 (1898) | Brown | none | none | C.C.D. Wash. | affirmed |
Andersen v. Treat | 24 (1898) | Fuller | none | none | E.D. Va. | affirmed |
Pittsburgh Ry. Co. v. Board of Pub. Works | 32 (1898) | Gray | none | none | C.C.D.W. Va. | affirmed |
United States v. Wardwell | 48 (1898) | Brewer | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
Green Bay & M.C. Co. v. Patten Paper Co. | 58 (1898) | Shiras | none | none | Wis. | reversed |
Meyer v. City of Richmond | 82 (1898) | McKenna | none | Fuller | Va. | affirmed |
McCullough v. Virginia | 102 (1898) | Brewer | none | Peckham | Va. | reversed |
United States v. Ranlett | 133 (1898) | Fuller | none | none | 5th Cir. | reversed |
Harkrader v. Wadley | 148 (1898) | Shiras | none | none | C.C.W.D. Va. | reversed |
New Mexico v. United States Tr. Co. | 171 (1898) | McKenna | none | none | Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M. | affirmed |
The Elfrida | 186 (1898) | Brown | none | none | 5th Cir. | reversed |
United States v. Loughrey | 206 (1898) | Brown | none | White | 7th Cir. | affirmed |
Grant v. Buckner | 232 (1898) | Brewer | none | none | La. | affirmed |
Blake v. McClung | 239 (1898) | Harlan | none | Brewer | Tenn. | affirmed (part); reversed (part) |
Village of Norwood v. Baker | 269 (1898) | Harlan | none | Brewer | C.C.S.D. Ohio | affirmed |
Winston v. United States | 303 (1899) | Gray | none | none | D.C. Cir. | reversed |
Bellingham Bay & B.C.R.R. Co. v. City of New Whatcom | 314 (1899) | Brewer | none | none | Wash. | affirmed |
Bellingham Bay Imp. Co. v. City of New Whatcom | 320 (1899) | Brewer | none | none | Wash. | affirmed |
United States v. Bliss | 321 (1899) | Brewer | none | none | Ct. Cl. | reversed |
United States v. Ingram | 327 (1899) | Brewer | none | none | Ct. Cl. | reversed |
Clark v. City of Kansas City | 334 (1899) | McKenna | none | none | Kan. | dismissed |
United States v. Buffalo Natural Gas Fuel Co. | 339 (1899) | Peckham | none | none | 2d Cir. | affirmed |
Scott v. United States | 343 (1899) | Peckham | none | none | C.C.S.D.N.Y. | affirmed |
Missouri, K. & T.T. Co. v. Krumseig | 351 (1899) | Shiras | none | none | 8th Cir. | affirmed |
Washington Market Co. v. District of Columbia | 361 (1899) | White | none | none | D.C. Cir. | affirmed |
Simpson v. United States | 372 (1899) | White | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
Home for Incurables v. Colville | 383 (1899) | White | none | none | D.C. Cir. | reversed |
Sonnentheil v. Christian Moerlein Brewing Co. | 401 (1899) | Brown | none | none | 5th Cir. | affirmed |
Utter v. Franklin | 416 (1899) | Brown | none | none | Sup. Ct. Terr. Ariz. | reversed |
Capital Nat'l Bank v. First Nat'l Bank | 425 (1899) | Fuller | none | none | Neb. | dismissed for want of jurisdiction |
Capital Nat'l Bank v. Coldwater Nat'l Bank | 434 (1899) | Fuller | none | none | Neb. | dismissed for want of jurisdiction |
Keck v. United States | 434 (1899) | White | none | Brown | E.D. Pa. | reversed |
Chappell Chem. Fertilizer Co. v. Sulphur Mines Co. I | 465 (1899) | McKenna | none | none | Md. | dismissed |
Chappell Chem. Fertilizer Co. v. Sulphur Mines Co. II | 472 (1899) | McKenna | none | none | Md. | dismissed |
Chappell Chem. Fertilizer Co. v. Sulphur Mines Co. III | 474 (1899) | McKenna | none | none | Md. | affirmed |
Columbia W.P. Co. v. Columbia E.S.R.L. & P. Co. | 475 (1899) | Brown | none | none | S.C. | affirmed |
Pittsburgh, C.C. & S.L. Ry. v. Long Island Loan & Tr. | 493 (1899) | Harlan | none | none | Ohio | affirmed |
Fitts v. McGhee | 516 (1899) | Harlan | none | none | C.C.N.D. Ala. | reversed |
Washington Gas-Light Co. v. Lansden | 534 (1899) | Peckham | none | none | D.C. Cir. | reversed |
Orient Ins. Co. v. Daggs | 557 (1899) | McKenna | none | none | Mo. | affirmed |
United States v. Harsha | 567 (1899) | Gray | none | none | 6th Cir. | remanded to divided lower court |
First Nat'l Bank v. Anderson | 573 (1899) | Fuller | none | none | N.D. | affirmed |
United States v. Duell | 576 (1899) | Fuller | none | none | D.C. Cir. | affirmed |
Northern P. Ry. Co. v. Myers | 589 (1899) | McKenna | none | none | 9th Cir. | affirmed |
Connecticut Mut. Life Ins. Co. v. Spratley | 602 (1899) | Peckham | none | none | Tenn. | affirmed |
Hoeninghaus v. United States | 622 (1899) | Shiras | none | none | 2d Cir. | remanded to divided lower court |
Marshall v. Burtis | 630 (1899) | McKenna | none | none | Sup. Ct. Terr. Ariz. | affirmed |
McQuade v. City of Trenton | 636 (1899) | Brown | none | none | N.J. | dismissed |
Notes and references[]
- ^ Lawson, Gary; Seidman, Guy (2001). "When Did the Constitution Become Law?". Notre Dame Law Review. 77: 1–37.
- ^ "Supreme Court Research Guide". Georgetown Law Library. Retrieved April 7, 2021.
See also[]
- Certificate of division
External links[]
- [1] Case reports in volume 172 from Library of Congress
- [2] Case reports in volume 172 from Court Listener
- [3] Case reports in volume 172 from the Caselaw Access Project of Harvard Law School
- [4] Case reports in volume 172 from Google Scholar
- [5] Case reports in volume 172 from Justia
- [6] Case reports in volume 172 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
- Lists of United States Supreme Court cases by volume
- 1898 in United States case law
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