List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 194

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Supreme Court of the United States
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EstablishedMarch 4, 1789; 233 years ago (1789-03-04)[1]
LocationWashington, D.C.
Coordinates38°53′26″N 77°00′16″W / 38.89056°N 77.00444°W / 38.89056; -77.00444Coordinates: 38°53′26″N 77°00′16″W / 38.89056°N 77.00444°W / 38.89056; -77.00444
Composition methodPresidential nomination with Senate confirmation
Authorized byConstitution of the United States, Art. III, § 1
Judge term lengthlife tenure, subject to impeachment and removal
Number of positions9 (by statute)
Websitesupremecourt.gov

This is a list of the 65 cases reported in volume 194 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1904.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 194 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 194 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
Melville Weston Fuller Chief Justice 1908.jpg Melville Fuller Chief Justice Illinois Morrison Waite July 20, 1888
(41–20)
October 8, 1888

July 4, 1910
(Died)
JudgeJMHarlan.jpg John Marshall Harlan Associate Justice Kentucky David Davis November 29, 1877
(Acclamation)
December 10, 1877

October 14, 1911
(Died)
DavidBrewer.jpg David Josiah Brewer Associate Justice Kansas Stanley Matthews December 18, 1889
(53–11)
January 6, 1890

March 28, 1910
(Died)
Portrait of Henry Billings Brown.jpg Henry Billings Brown Associate Justice Michigan Samuel Freeman Miller December 29, 1890
(Acclamation)
January 5, 1891

May 28, 1906
(Retired)
Edward White, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left, 1905.jpg Edward Douglass White Associate Justice Louisiana Samuel Blatchford February 19, 1894
(Acclamation)
March 12, 1894

December 18, 1910
(Continued as chief justice)
Rufus Wheeler Peckham cph.3b30513.jpg Rufus W. Peckham Associate Justice New York Howell Edmunds Jackson December 9, 1895
(Acclamation)
January 6, 1896

October 24, 1909
(Died)
Joseph McKenna Associate Justice California Stephen Johnson Field January 21, 1898
(Acclamation)
January 26, 1898

January 5, 1925
(Retired)
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr circa 1930-edit.jpg Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Associate Justice Massachusetts Horace Gray December 4, 1902
(Acclamation)
December 8, 1902

January 12, 1932
(Retired)
Justice William R. Day.jpg William R. Day Associate Justice Ohio George Shiras Jr. February 23, 1903
(Acclamation)
March 2, 1903

November 13, 1922
(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 194 U.S.[]

Case Name Page & year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition of case
People's Gas, Light & Coke Co. v. City of Chicago 1 (1904) Fuller none none C.C.N.D. Ill. affirmed
Brown v. Schleier 18 (1904) McKenna none none 8th Cir. affirmed
ICC v. Baird 25 (1904) Day none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. reversed
Minnesota v. Northern Securities Co. 48 (1904) Harlan none none C.C.D. Minn. reversed
Beavers v. Henkel 73 (1904) Brewer none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed
Houghton v. Payne 88 (1904) Brown none Harlan D.C. Cir. affirmed
Smith v. Payne 104 (1904) Brown none none D.C. Cir. affirmed
Bates & Guild Co. v. Payne 106 (1904) Brown none Harlan D.C. Cir. affirmed
Pacific Elec. Ry. Co. v. City of Los Angeles 112 (1904) McKenna none none C.C.S.D. Cal. affirmed
Slater v. Mexican N.R.R. Co. 120 (1904) Holmes none Fuller 5th Cir. affirmed
Southern Ry. Co. v. Carson 136 (1904) Fuller none none S.C. affirmed
Kirby v. American Soda Fountain Co. 141 (1904) Fuller none none C.C.N.D. Tex. affirmed
Jones v. Montague 147 (1904) Brewer none none C.C.E.D. Va. dismissed
Selden v. Montague 153 (1904) Brewer none none C.C.E.D. Va. dismissed
Damon v. Hawaii 154 (1904) Holmes none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Haw. reversed
United States v. Sing Tuck Or Do 161 (1904) Holmes none Brewer 2d Cir. reversed
Gibson v. United States 182 (1904) Day none none Ct. Cl. affirmed
Lowe v. United States 193 (1904) Day none none Ct. Cl. affirmed
Ex parte United States 194 (1904) Fuller none none N.D. Ohio mandamus granted
City & Suburban Ry. v. Svedborg 201 (1904) Harlan none none D.C. Cir. affirmed
Pettit v. Walshe 205 (1904) Harlan none none C.C.D. Ind. affirmed
Clipper Mining Co. v. Eli Mining & Land Co. 220 (1904) Brewer none none Colo. affirmed
St. Louis Mining & Milling Co. v. Montana Mining Co. 235 (1904) Brewer none none 9th Cir. affirmed
The Iroquois 240 (1904) Brown none none 9th Cir. affirmed
Elder v. Horseshoe Mining & Milling Co. 248 (1904) Peckham none none S.D. affirmed
West v. Louisiana 258 (1904) Peckham none none La. affirmed
Missouri, K. & T. Ry. Co. v. May 267 (1904) Holmes none Brown Tex. Cnty. Ct. affirmed
Raphael v. Trask 272 (1904) Day none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed
United States ex rel. Turner v. Williams 279 (1904) Fuller Brewer none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed
Hewit v. Berlin Mach. Works 296 (1904) Fuller none none 2d Cir. affirmed
Hanks Dental Ass'n v. International Tooth Crown Co. 303 (1904) Fuller none none 2d Cir. remanded to divided lower court
Plymouth Cordage Co. v. Smith 311 (1904) Fuller none none 8th Cir. remanded to divided lower court
Ribas y Hijo v. United States 315 (1904) Harlan none none D.P.R. affirmed
Bessette v. W.B. Conkey Co. 324 (1904) Brewer none none 7th Cir. remanded to divided lower court
Northern P. Ry. Co. v. Dixon 338 (1904) Brewer none White 8th Cir. remanded to divided lower court
Filhiol v. Torney 356 (1904) Brewer none none C.C.E.D. Ark. affirmed
Fischer v. City of St Louis 361 (1904) Brown none none Mo. affirmed
United States ex rel. Holzendorf v. Hay 373 (1904) White none none D.C. Cir. dismissed for want of jurisdiction
Sun Printing & Publ'g Ass'n v. Edwards 377 (1904) White none none 2d Cir. remanded to divided lower court
Morris v. Hitchcock 384 (1904) White none none D.C. Cir. affirmed
United States v. Anderson 394 (1904) White none none Ct. Cl. affirmed
Hy-Yu-Tse-Mil-Kin v. Smith 401 (1904) Peckham none none 9th Cir. affirmed
Hooker v. Burr 415 (1904) Peckham none none Cal. affirmed
Cau v. Texas & P. Ry. Co. 427 (1904) McKenna none none 5th Cir. affirmed
Charnock v. Texas & P. Ry. Co. 432 (1904) McKenna none none 5th Cir. affirmed
Swarts v. Hammer 441 (1904) McKenna none none 8th Cir. affirmed
Ohio ex rel. Lloyd v. Dollison 445 (1904) McKenna none none Ohio affirmed
Davis v. Mills 451 (1904) Holmes none none 2d Cir. remanded to divided lower court
In re Christensen Eng'g Co. 458 (1904) Fuller none none 2d Cir. mandamus granted
Crowley v. United States 461 (1904) Harlan none none D.P.R. reversed
Knepper v. Sands 476 (1904) Harlan none none 8th Cir. remanded to divided lower court
Binns v. United States 486 (1904) Brewer none none D. Alaska affirmed
Wynn-Johnson v. Shoup 496 (1904) Brewer none none D. Alaska affirmed
Public Clearing House v. Coyne 497 (1904) Brown none none C.C.N.D. Ill. affirmed
City of Cleveland v. Cleveland City Ry. Co. I 517 (1904) White none none C.C.N.D. Ohio affirmed
City of Cleveland v. Cleveland Elec. Ry. Co. II 538 (1904) White none none C.C.N.D. Ohio affirmed
Dimmick v. Tompkins 540 (1904) Peckham none none C.C.N.D. Cal. affirmed
Shepard v. Barron 553 (1904) Peckham none none C.C.S.D. Ohio affirmed
Burrell v. Montana 572 (1904) McKenna none none Mont. affirmed
Terre Haute & I.R.R. Co. v. Indiana ex rel. Ketcham 579 (1904) Holmes none none Ind. reversed
Chandler v. Dix 590 (1904) Holmes none none C.C.E.D. Mich. affirmed
Shaw v. City of Covington 593 (1904) Holmes none none C.C.E.D. Ky. affirmed
International Postal Supply Co. v. Bruce 601 (1904) Holmes none Harlan 2d Cir. remanded to divided lower court
Field v. Barber Asphalt Paving Co. 618 (1904) Day none none C.C.W.D. Mo. affirmed (part); reversed (part)
Rawson v. Western Sand Blast Co. 627 (1904) Harlan none none C.C.N.D. Ill. affirmed

Notes and references[]

  1. ^ Lawson, Gary; Seidman, Guy (2001). "When Did the Constitution Become Law?". Notre Dame Law Review. 77: 1–37.
  2. ^ "Supreme Court Research Guide". Georgetown Law Library. Retrieved April 7, 2021.

See also[]

  • Certificate of division

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