List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 186

Supreme Court of the United States
Established	March 4, 1789;234 years ago (1789-03-04)
Location	Washington, D.C.
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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 186 of United States Reports , decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1902.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 186 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 186 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)
	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)

Citation style

See also: United States district court

See also: United States circuit court

See also: United States court of appeals

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.

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
• 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 186 U.S.

See also: Fuller Court

Case Name	Page & year	Opinion of the Court	Concurring opinion(s)	Dissenting opinion(s)	Lower Court	Disposition
The S.S. Styria	1 (1902)	Shiras	none	none	2d Cir.	reversed
Montana M. Co. v. St. Louis et al. Co.	24 (1902)	Fuller	none	none	9th Cir.	dismissed
Emsheimer v. City of New Orleans	33 (1902)	Fuller	none	none	5th Cir.	certification
McClaughry v. Deming	49 (1902)	Peckham	none	none	C.C.D. Kan.	affirmed
Bement & Sons v. National H. Co.	70 (1902)	Peckham	none	none	N.Y. Sup. Ct.	affirmed
Murphy v. Utter	95 (1902)	Brown	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. Ariz.	affirmed
Beyer v. LeFevre	114 (1902)	Brewer	none	none	D.C. Cir.	reversed
Felsenheld v. United States	126 (1902)	Brewer	none	none	4th Cir.	certification
Bowker v. United States	135 (1902)	Fuller	none	none	D.N.J.	dismissed
Ward v. Joslin	142 (1902)	Fuller	none	none	1st Cir.	affirmed
Nesbitt v. United States	153 (1902)	McKenna	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Williams v. Gaylord	157 (1902)	McKenna	none	none	9th Cir.	affirmed
Lee Lung v. Patterson	168 (1902)	McKenna	none	none	D. Or.	affirmed
Gallaway v. Fort W. Bank	177 (1902)	Fuller	none	none	not indicated	bond waiver denied
Hatfield v. King	178 (1902)	Fuller	none	none	C.C.D.W. Va.	revision denied
Hanover Nat'l Bank v. Moyses	181 (1902)	Fuller	none	none	C.C.E.D. Tenn.	affirmed
Chin Bak Kan v. United States	193 (1902)	Fuller	none	none	N.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Denver 1st Nat'l Bank v. Klug	202 (1902)	Fuller	none	none	D. Colo.	dismissed
Clark v. Herington	206 (1902)	Brewer	none	none	Kan.	affirmed
Bienville W.S. Co. v. City of Mobile	212 (1902)	Brewer	none	none	C.C.S.D. Ala.	affirmed
Hardy v. United States	224 (1902)	Brewer	none	none	D. Alaska	affirmed
Jenkins v. Neff	230 (1902)	Brewer	none	none	N.Y. Sup. Ct.	affirmed
Chesapeake et al. Co. v. Manning	238 (1902)	Brewer	none	White	D.C. Cir.	reversed
Minneapolis et al. R.R. Co. v. Minnesota R.R.W.C.	257 (1902)	Brown	none	none	Minn.	affirmed
New York et al. R.R. Co. v. City of New York	269 (1902)	Brown	none	none	N.Y. Sup. Ct.	dismissed
Hoffeld v. United States	273 (1902)	Brown	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Pine R.L. Co. v. United States	279 (1902)	Brown	none	none	8th Cir.	affirmed
United States v. A. Nicholls Co.	298 (1902)	Brown	none	none	2d Cir.	certification
Kennard v. Nebraska	304 (1902)	Shiras	none	none	Neb.	dismissed
United States v. Freel	309 (1902)	Shiras	none	none	2d Cir.	affirmed
ICC v. Chicago et al. R.R. Co.	320 (1902)	White	none	none	7th Cir.	affirmed
Fidelity & D. Co. v. Courtney	342 (1902)	White	none	none	6th Cir.	affirmed
Warner v. Godfrey	365 (1902)	White	none	none	D.C. Cir.	reversed
Compagnie Francaise v. Louisiana Bd. of H.	380 (1902)	White	none	Brown	La.	affirmed
Capital City L.F. Co. v. City of Tallahassee	401 (1902)	Peckham	none	none	Fla.	affirmed
Hotema v. United States	413 (1902)	Peckham	none	none	E.D. Tex.	affirmed
Hagan v. Scottish U.N. Ins. Co.	423 (1902)	Peckham	none	none	3d Cir.	reversed
Farmers' L. & T. Co. v. Pennsylvania P.G. Co.	434 (1902)	Peckham	none	none	3d Cir.	affirmed
Lander v. Mercantile Nat'l Bank	458 (1902)	McKenna	none	none	6th Cir.	reversed

Notes and references

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

See also

• Certificate of division

External links

• Case reports in volume 186 from Library of Congress
• Case reports in volume 186 from Court Listener
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