List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 129

Supreme Court of the United States
Established	March 4, 1789;234 years ago (1789-03-04)
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Composition method	Presidential nomination with Senate confirmation
Authorized by	Constitution of the United States, Art. III, § 1
Judge term length	life tenure, subject to impeachment and removal
Number of positions	9 (by statute)
Website	supremecourt.gov

This is a list of cases reported in volume 129 of United States Reports , decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1889.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 129 U.S.

See also: List of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States

See also: List of United States Supreme Court justices by time in office

See also: List of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States by court composition

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). ^[1] 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 129 U.S. 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 Fuller	Chief Justice	Illinois	Morrison Waite	July 20, 1888 (41–20)	October 8, 1888 – July 4, 1910 (Died)
	Samuel Freeman Miller	Associate Justice	Iowa	Peter Vivian Daniel	July 16, 1862 (Acclamation)	July 21, 1862 – October 13, 1890 (Died)
	Stephen Johnson Field	Associate Justice	California	newly-created seat	March 10, 1863 (Acclamation)	May 10, 1863 – December 1, 1897 (Retired)
	Joseph P. Bradley	Associate Justice	New Jersey	newly-created seat	March 21, 1870 (46–9)	March 23, 1870 – January 22, 1892 (Died)
	John Marshall Harlan	Associate Justice	Kentucky	David Davis	November 29, 1877 (Acclamation)	December 10, 1877 – October 14, 1911 (Died)
	Stanley Matthews	Associate Justice	Ohio	Noah Haynes Swayne	May 12, 1881 (24–23)	May 17, 1881 – March 22, 1889 (Died)
	Horace Gray	Associate Justice	Massachusetts	Nathan Clifford	December 20, 1881 (51–5)	January 9, 1882 – September 15, 1902 (Died)
	Samuel Blatchford	Associate Justice	New York	Ward Hunt	March 22, 1882 (Acclamation)	April 3, 1882 – July 7, 1893 (Died)
	Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar	Associate Justice	Mississippi	William Burnham Woods	January 16, 1888 (32–28)	January 18, 1888 – January 23, 1893 (Died)

Notable Case in 129 U.S.

Dent v. West Virginia

In Dent v. West Virginia , 129 U.S. 114 (1889), the Supreme Court upheld a state physician licensing law. A practitioner with insufficient credentials to obtain a medical license sued West Virginia, claiming a violation of his rights under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment. The Supreme Court upheld the statute noting that, while each citizen had a right to follow any lawful calling, they were subject to reasonable state restrictions. Because of the nature of medical training, the large amount of knowledge required, and the life-and-death circumstances with which physicians dealt, patients needed to rely on the assurance of a license requiring physicians to meet a minimum set of standards.

Citation style

See also: United States district court

See also: United States circuit court

See also: United States federal courts

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
• "Ct. Cl." = United States Court of Claims
• 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 129 U.S.

See also: Fuller Court

Case Name	Page & year	Opinion of the Court	Concurring opinion(s)	Dissenting opinion(s)	Lower Court	Disposition
McCormick v. Graham's Adm'r	1 (1889)	Blatchford	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	reversed
Sargent v. Burgess	19 (1889)	Blatchford	none	none	C.C.E.D. Pa.	affirmed
Minneapolis et al. Ry. Co. v. Beckwith	26 (1889)	Field	none	none	Kossuth Cnty. Cir. Ct.	affirmed
City of Shreveport v. Cole	36 (1889)	Fuller	none	none	C.C.W.D. La.	reversed
City of Shreveport v. United States ex rel. Jacobs	44 (1889)	Fuller	none	none	C.C.W.D. La.	reversed
City of New Orleans v. Louisiana C. Co.	45 (1889)	Fuller	none	none	C.C.E.D. La.	dismissal denied
Rosenwasser v. Spieth	47 (1889)	Gray	none	none	C.C.D. Me.	affirmed
Baldwin v. Kansas	52 (1889)	Blatchford	none	Harlan	Kan.	dismissed
Wallace v. Johnstone	58 (1889)	Lamar	none	none	C.C.S.D. Iowa	affirmed
Noble v. Hammond & B.	65 (1889)	Lamar	none	none	Vt.	reversed
Anderson v. H.T. Miller & Co.	70 (1889)	Lamar	none	none	C.C.E.D. Va.	affirmed
Camden v. Mayhew	73 (1889)	Harlan	none	none	C.C.D.W. Va.	affirmed
Arrowsmith v. Gleason	86 (1889)	Harlan	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ohio	reversed
Tillson v. United States	101 (1889)	Gray	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Farnsworth v. Montana	104 (1889)	Blatchford	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. Mont.	dismissed
Dent v. West Virginia	114 (1889)	Field	none	none	W. Va.	affirmed
Inman S. & Co. v. South Carolina Ry. Co.	128 (1889)	Fuller	none	none	C.C.D.S.C.	reversed
Stoutenburgh v. Hennick	141 (1889)	Fuller	none	Miller	Sup. Ct. D.C.	affirmed
Bate R. Co. v. G.H. Hammond Co.	151 (1889)	Blatchford	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	reversed
Hill v. Chicago & E.R.R. Co.	170 (1889)	Blatchford	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	dismissal denied
Hanover F. Ins. Co. v. Kinneard	176 (1889)	Fuller	none	none	C.C.D. Kan.	dismissed
Marrow v. Brinkley	178 (1889)	Fuller	none	none	Va.	dismissed
Probst v. Domestic Missions	182 (1889)	Miller	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M.	reversed
Seibert v. United States ex rel. Harshman	192 (1889)	Field	none	none	C.C.E.D. Mo.	affirmed
Galigher v. Jones	193 (1889)	Bradley	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. Utah	reversed
Wade v. Metcalf	202 (1889)	Gray	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	affirmed
In re Farmers' L. & T. Co.	206 (1889)	Miller	Bradley	none	C.C.N.D. Tex.	mandamus granted
Kimmish v. Ball	217 (1889)	Field	none	none	C.C.S.D. Iowa	reversed
National S. Bank v. Butler	223 (1889)	Blatchford	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	affirmed
Robertson v. Perkins	233 (1889)	Blatchford	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	reversed
Brown v. Sutton	238 (1889)	Miller	none	none	C.C.E.D. Wis.	affirmed
Barton v. United States	249 (1889)	Fuller	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Carr v. Hamilton	252 (1889)	Bradley	none	none	C.C.W.D. La.	affirmed
Morley S.M. Co v. Lancaster	263 (1889)	Blatchford	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	reversed
Ely v. New Mexico et al. R.R. Co.	291 (1889)	Gray	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. Ariz.	reversed
Pattee P. Co. v. Kingman	294 (1889)	Fuller	none	none	C.C.E.D. Mo.	affirmed
Union P. Ry. Co. v. McAlpine	305 (1889)	Field	none	none	C.C.D. Kan.	affirmed
Morris v. Gilmer	315 (1889)	Harlan	none	none	C.C.M.D. Ala.	reversed
White v. Cotzhausen	329 (1889)	Harlan	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	reversed
Pinkerton v. Ledoux	346 (1889)	Bradley	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M.	affirmed
Walworth v. J.L. Harris & Co.	355 (1889)	Miller	none	none	C.C.E.D. Ark.	affirmed
Harris v. Barber	366 (1889)	Gray	none	none	Sup. Ct. D.C.	affirmed
Bank of Ft. Madison v. Alden	372 (1889)	Field	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
United States v. Corwin	381 (1889)	Lamar	none	none	C.C.W.D. Tex.	affirmed
Ruckman v. Cory	387 (1889)	Harlan	none	none	C.C.S.D. Ill.	affirmed
Eastern R.R. Co. v. United States	391 (1889)	Harlan	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Liverpool et al. Co. v. Phenix Ins. Co.	397 (1889)	Gray	none	none	C.C.E.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Liverpool et al. Co. v. Insurance Co.	464 (1889)	per curiam	none	none	C.C.E.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Allen v. Smith	465 (1889)	Blatchford	none	none	C.C.E.D. Ark.	affirmed
United States ex rel. Levey v. Stockslager	470 (1889)	Blatchford	none	none	Sup. Ct. D.C.	affirmed
Norton v. City of Brownsville I	479 (1889)	Fuller	none	none	C.C.W.D. Tenn.	affirmed
City of Brownsville v. Loague	493 (1889)	Fuller	none	none	C.C.W.D. Tenn.	reversed
Norton v. City of Brownsville II	505 (1889)	Fuller	none	none	C.C.W.D. Tenn.	dismissed
McKenna v. Simpson	506 (1889)	Field	none	none	Tenn.	dismissed
Kimberly v. Arms	512 (1889)	Field	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ohio	reversed
Peters v. Active Mfg. Co.	530 (1889)	Blatchford	none	none	C.C.S.D. Ohio	affirmed
Peters v. Hanson	541 (1889)	Blatchford	none	none	C.C.D. Ind.	affirmed
City Nat'l Bank v. Hunter et al. Co.	557 (1889)	Fuller	none	none	C.C.N.D. Tex.	reversed
United States v. Marshall S.M. Co.	579 (1889)	Miller	none	none	C.C.D. Colo.	affirmed
Shotwell v. Moore	590 (1889)	Miller	none	none	Ohio	affirmed
Goodwin v. Fox	601 (1889)	Blatchford	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	reversed
Insurance Co. v. Guardiola	642 (1889)	Gray	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	reversed
Woodstock I. Co. v. Richmond et al. Co.	643 (1889)	Field	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ala.	reversed
Ralston v. Turpin	663 (1889)	Harlan	none	none	C.C.S.D. Ga.	affirmed
Chapman v. Barney	677 (1889)	Lamar	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	reversed
Béné v. Jeantet	683 (1889)	Lamar	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Schraeder et al. Co. v. Packer	688 (1889)	Lamar	none	none	C.C.W.D. Pa.	affirmed

Notes and references

1. "Supreme Court Research Guide". Georgetown Law Library. Retrieved April 7, 2021.

External links

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