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Established | March 4, 1789 |
Location | Washington, D.C. |
Coordinates | 38°53′26″N77°00′16″W / 38.89056°N 77.00444°W Coordinates: 38°53′26″N77°00′16″W / 38.89056°N 77.00444°W |
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 |
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This is a list of cases reported in volume 182 of United States Reports , decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1901.
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 182 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) | |
John Marshall Harlan | Associate Justice | Kentucky | David Davis | November 29, 1877 (Acclamation) | December 10, 1877 – October 14, 1911 (Died) | |
Horace Gray | Associate Justice | Massachusetts | Nathan Clifford | December 20, 1881 (51–5) | January 9, 1882 – September 15, 1902 (Died) | |
David Josiah Brewer | Associate Justice | Kansas | Stanley Matthews | December 18, 1889 (53–11) | January 6, 1890 – March 28, 1910 (Died) | |
Henry Billings Brown | Associate Justice | Michigan | Samuel Freeman Miller | December 29, 1890 (Acclamation) | January 5, 1891 – May 28, 1906 (Retired) | |
George Shiras Jr. | Associate Justice | Pennsylvania | Joseph P. Bradley | July 26, 1892 (Acclamation) | October 10, 1892 – February 23, 1903 (Retired) | |
Edward Douglass White | Associate Justice | Louisiana | Samuel Blatchford | February 19, 1894 (Acclamation) | March 12, 1894 – December 18, 1910 (Continued as chief justice) | |
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) | |
The Insular Cases are a series of opinions by the Supreme Court in 1901 (the first six opinions in 182 U.S., at pages 1–397, all authored by Justice Henry Billings Brown, along with various concurring and dissenting opinions by other Justices), about the status of U.S. territories acquired in the Spanish–American War, such as the Philippines. [2] The Supreme Court held in the Insular Cases that full constitutional protection of rights does not automatically extend to all places under American control. This meant that inhabitants of unincorporated territories such as Puerto Rico—"even if they are U.S. citizens"—may lack some constitutional rights (e.g., the right to remain part of the United States in case of de-annexation) [3] because they were not part of the United States.
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.
Case Name | Page and year | Opinion of the Court | Concurring opinion(s) | Dissenting opinion(s) | Lower Court | Disposition |
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DeLima v. Bidwell (an Insular Case) | 1 (1901) | Brown | none | McKenna; Gray | C.C.S.D.N.Y. | reversed |
Goetze v. United States (an Insular Case) | 221 (1901) | Brown | none | none | C.C.S.D.N.Y. | reversed |
Dooley v. United States (an Insular Case) | 222 (1901) | Brown | none | White | C.C.S.D.N.Y. | reversed |
Armstrong v. United States (an Insular Case) | 243 (1901) | Brown | none | none | Ct. Cl. | reversed |
Downes v. Bidwell (an Insular Case) | 244 (1901) | Brown | White; Gray | Fuller; Harlan | C.C.S.D.N.Y. | affirmed |
Huus v. New York and Port Rico Steamship Company (an Insular Case) | 392 (1901) | Brown | none | none | 2d Cir. | certification |
Carson v. Brockton Sewage Commission | 398 (1901) | Brown | none | none | Mass. | affirmed |
Homer Ramsdell Transportation Company v. Compagnie Generale Transatlantique | 406 (1901) | Gray | none | none | 2d Cir. | certification |
Lake Street Elevated Railroad Company v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Company | 417 (1901) | Shiras | none | none | Ill. | dismissed |
Reagan v. United States | 419 (1901) | Fuller | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
Simon v. Craft | 427 (1901) | White | none | none | Ala. | affirmed |
Pirie v. Chicago Title and Trust Company | 438 (1901) | McKenna | none | Fuller | 7th Cir. | affirmed |
United States ex rel. Queen v. Alvey | 456 (1901) | McKenna | none | none | D.C. Cir. | rule discharged |
Clews v. Jamieson | 461 (1901) | Peckham | none | Harlan | 7th Cir. | reversed |
Calhoun Gold Mining Company v. Ajax Gold Mining Company | 499 (1901) | McKenna | none | none | Colo. | affirmed |
District of Columbia v. Talty | 510 (1901) | McKenna | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
Russell v. United States | 516 (1901) | McKenna | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
Lantry v. Wallace | 536 (1901) | Harlan | none | none | 8th Cir. | affirmed |
Hood v. Wallace | 555 (1901) | Harlan | none | none | 8th Cir. | affirmed |
Commerce National Bank v. Chambers | 556 (1901) | White | none | none | Utah | affirmed |
Fuller v. United States | 562 (1901) | Harlan | none | none | Ct. App. Indian Terr. | rule discharged |
District of Columbia v. Moulton | 576 (1901) | White | none | none | D.C. Cir. | reversed |
Jacobs v. Marks | 583 (1901) | Shiras | none | none | Ill. | affirmed |
Glavey v. United States | 595 (1901) | Harlan | none | none | Ct. Cl. | reversed |