List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 160

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Supreme Court of the United States
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EstablishedMarch 4, 1789;234 years ago (1789-03-04)
Location Washington, D.C.
Coordinates 38°53′26″N77°00′16″W / 38.89056°N 77.00444°W / 38.89056; -77.00444 Coordinates: 38°53′26″N77°00′16″W / 38.89056°N 77.00444°W / 38.89056; -77.00444
Composition methodPresidential nomination with Senate confirmation
Authorized by Constitution of the United States, Art. III, § 1
Judge term lengthlife tenure, subject to impeachment and removal
Number of positions9 (by statute)
Website supremecourt.gov

This is a list of cases reported in volume 160 of United States Reports , decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1895 and 1896.

Contents

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 160 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). [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 160 were decided the Court comprised the following nine members:

PortraitJusticeOfficeHome StateSucceededDate 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)
Stephen Johnson Field, photo half length seated, 1875.jpg Stephen Johnson Field Associate Justice California newly-created seatMarch 10, 1863
(Acclamation)
May 10, 1863

December 1, 1897
(Retired)
JudgeJMHarlan.jpg John Marshall Harlan Associate Justice Kentucky David Davis November 29, 1877
(Acclamation)
December 10, 1877

October 14, 1911
(Died)
Horacegrayphoto.jpg Horace Gray Associate Justice Massachusetts Nathan Clifford December 20, 1881
(51–5)
January 9, 1882

September 15, 1902
(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)
George Shiras Jr.jpg George Shiras Jr. Associate Justice Pennsylvania Joseph P. Bradley July 26, 1892
(Acclamation)
October 10, 1892

February 23, 1903
(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)

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.

List of cases in volume 160 U.S.

Case NamePage and yearOpinion of the CourtConcurring opinion(s)Dissenting opinion(s)Lower CourtDisposition
United States v. Union Pacific Railroad Company 1 (1895) Harlannonenone 8th Cir. reversed
United States v. Western Union Telegraph Company 53 (1895) Harlannonenone C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed
Goldsby v. United States 70 (1895) Whitenonenone C.C.W.D. Ark. affirmed
Washington and Idaho Railway v. Coeur d'Alene Railway and Navigation Company 77 (1895) Shirasnonenone 9th Cir. affirmed
Washington and Idaho Railway v. Osborn 103 (1895) Shirasnonenone Sup. Ct. Terr. Idaho affirmed
McCarty v. Lehigh Valley Railroad Company 110 (1895) Brownnonenone C.C.E.D. Pa. affirmed
Folsom v. United States 121 (1895) Fullernonenone 8th Cir. certification
Streep v. United States 128 (1895) Graynonenone C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed
United States v. Healey 136 (1895) Harlannonenone Ct. Cl. reversed
Bamberger v. Schoolfield 149 (1895) Whitenonenone C.C.N.D. Ala. affirmed
New Orleans Flour Inspectors v. Glover 170 (1895) Fullernonenone C.C.E.D. La. dismissed
Townsend v. Vanderwerker 171 (1895) Brownnonenone Sup. Ct. D.C. reversed
Ballew v. United States 187 (1895) Whitenonenone C.C.N.D. Ga. reversed
Allison v. United States 203 (1895) Fullernonenone C.C.W.D. Ark. reversed
Interior Construction and Improvement Company v. Gibney 217 (1895) Graynonenone C.C.D. Ind. reversed
In Re Keasbey and Mattison Company 221 (1895) Graynonenone C.C.S.D.N.Y. mandamus denied
Whitten v. Tomlinson 231 (1895) Graynonenone C.C.D. Conn. affirmed
In re Sanford Fork and Tool Company 247 (1895) Graynonenone C.C.D. Ind. mandamus denied
Central Railroad Company v. Keegan 259 (1895) Whitenonenone 2d Cir. certification
Moore v. United States 268 (1895) Brownnonenone S.D. Ala. reversed
Keane v. Brygger 276 (1895) Fieldnonenone Wash. affirmed
Jersey City and Bergen Railroad Company v. Morgan 288 (1895) Fullernonenone N.J. Sup. Ct. dismissed
Kohl v. Lehlback 293 (1895) Fullernonenone C.C.D.N.J. affirmed
Haws v. Victoria Copper Mining Company 303 (1895) Whitenonenone Sup. Ct. Terr. Utah affirmed
Markham v. United States 319 (1895) Harlannonenone D. Ky. affirmed
Lehigh Mining and Manufacturing Company v. Kelly 327 (1895) HarlannoneShiras C.C.W.D. Va. affirmed
Pierce v. United States 355 (1896) Brownnonenone C.C.W.D. Ark. affirmed
Bartlett v. Lockwood 357 (1896) Brownnonenone N.Y. Sup. Ct. dismissed
Van Wagenen v. Sewall 369 (1896) Brownnonenone N.D. Fla. dismissed
Union Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Kirchoff 374 (1896) Brownnonenone Ill. dismissed
Kirby v. Tallmadge 379 (1896) Brownnonenone Sup. Ct. D.C. affirmed
Iowa Central Railway Company v. Iowa 389 (1896) Whitenonenone Iowa dismissed
Spalding v. Chandler 394 (1896) Whitenonenone Mich. affirmed
Hickory v. United States 408 (1896) Whitenonenone C.C.W.D. Ark. reversed
Gill v. United States 426 (1896) Brownnonenone Ct. Cl. affirmed
Southern Pacific Railroad Company v. Pool 438 (1896) Whitenonenone Sup. Ct. Terr. Utah reversed
Eldridge v. Trezevant 452 (1896) Shirasnonenone C.C.W.D. La. affirmed
Davis v. United States 469 (1895) Harlannonenone C.C.W.D. Ark. reversed
United States v. Sayward 493 (1895) Harlannonenone C.C.D. Wash. reversed
Chappell v. United States 499 (1896) Graynonenone D. Md. affirmed
Jacksonville, Mayport, Pablo Railway and Navigation Company v. Hooper 514 (1896) Shirasnonenone C.C.N.D. Fla. affirmed
Laing v. Rigney 531 (1896) Shirasnonenone N.Y. Sup. Ct. reversed
Johnson v. United States 546 (1896) Brewernonenone Ct. Cl. affirmed
Carver v. United States 553 (1896) Fullernonenone C.C.W.D. Ark. reversed
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company v. Fitzgerald 556 (1896) Fullernonenone Neb. dismissed
Dickson v. Patterson 584 (1896) Harlannonenone C.C.D. Neb. reversed
United States v. Fuller 593 (1896) Brownnonenone Ct. Cl. affirmed
United States v. New York 598 (1896) Harlannonenone Ct. Cl. reversed
Nalle v. Young 624 (1896) Fullernonenone C.C.W.D. La. reversed
Gregory v. Van Ee 643 (1896) Fullernonenone 1st Cir. dismissed
Chemical National Bank v. City Bank 646 (1896) Fullernonenone Ill. dismissed
United States v. Thornton 654 (1896) Brownnonenone Ct. Cl. reversed
First National Bank v. Ayers 660 (1896) Peckhamnonenone Kan. affirmed
United States v. Gettysburg Electric Railway Company 668 (1896) Peckhamnonenone C.C.E.D. Pa. reversed
Sioux City and St. Paul Railroad Company v. United States 686 (1896) Harlannonenone C.C.N.D. Iowa rehearing denied
Missouri v. Iowa 688 (1896) Fullernonenone original boundary adjusted

Notes and references

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

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