List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 212

Supreme Court of the United States
Established	March 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 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 212 of United States Reports , decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1909.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 212 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 212 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)
	David Josiah Brewer	Associate Justice	Kansas	Stanley Matthews	December 18, 1889 (53–11)	January 6, 1890 – March 28, 1910 (Died)
	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)
	Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.	Associate Justice	Massachusetts	Horace Gray	December 4, 1902 (Acclamation)	December 8, 1902 – January 12, 1932 (Retired)
	William R. Day	Associate Justice	Ohio	George Shiras Jr.	February 23, 1903 (Acclamation)	March 2, 1903 – November 13, 1922 (Retired)
	William Henry Moody	Associate Justice	Massachusetts	Henry Billings Brown	December 12, 1906 (Acclamation)	December 17, 1906 – November 20, 1910 (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 212 U.S.

See also: Fuller Court

Case Name	Page and year	Opinion of the Court	Concurring opinion(s)	Dissenting opinion(s)	Lower Court	Disposition
City of Knoxville v. Knoxville Water Company	1 (1909)	Moody	none	none	C.C.E.D. Tenn.	reversed
Willcox v. Consolidated Gas Company	19 (1909)	Peckham	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	reversed
Rakes v. United States	55 (1909)	Fuller	none	none	W.D. Va.	dismissed
Presidio County v. Noel Young Bond and Stock Company	58 (1909)	Harlan	none	none	5th Cir.	affirmed
Moyer v. Peabody	78 (1909)	Holmes	none	none	C.C.D. Colo.	affirmed
Waters Pierce Oil Company v. Texas I	86 (1909)	Day	none	none	Tex. Civ. App.	affirmed
Waters Pierce Oil Company v. Texas II	112 (1909)	Day	none	none	Tex. Civ. App.	dismissed
Palmer v. Texas	118 (1909)	Day	none	none	5th Cir.	affirmed
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company v. Central Stock Yards Company	132 (1909)	Holmes	none	McKenna	Ky.	reversed
Ontario Land Company v. Yordy	152 (1909)	Brewer	none	none	Wash.	affirmed
Waters Pierce Oil Company v. Deselms	159 (1909)	White	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. Okla.	affirmed
Crawford v. United States	183 (1909)	Peckham	none	none	D.C. Cir.	reversed
Spreckels v. Brown	208 (1909)	Holmes	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. Haw.	affirmed
Standard Oil Company v. Anderson	215 (1909)	Moody	none	none	2d Cir.	affirmed
Continental Wall Paper Company v. L. Voight and Sons Company	227 (1909)	Harlan	none	Holmes; Brewer	6th Cir.	affirmed
United States v. Marvin	275 (1909)	per curiam	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Thomas v. Texas	278 (1909)	Fuller	none	none	Tex. Crim. App.	affirmed
Johnson v. Mueser	283 (1909)	Fuller	none	none	D.C. Cir.	dismissed
E.C. Atkins and Company v. Moore	285 (1909)	Fuller	none	none	D.C. Cir.	dismissed
Laurel Oil and Gas Company v. Morrison	291 (1909)	Fuller	none	none	8th Cir.	dismissed
Juragua Iron Company v. United States	297 (1909)	Harlan	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
American Express Company v. Mullins	311 (1909)	Brewer	none	none	Ky. Cir. Ct.	reversed
Nielsen v. Oregon	315 (1909)	Brewer	none	none	Or.	reversed
Hammond Packing Company v. Arkansas	322 (1909)	White	none	none	Ark.	affirmed
The Folmina	354 (1909)	White	none	none	2d Cir.	certification
Fritzlen v. Boatmen's Bank	364 (1909)	White	none	none	Kan.	affirmed
In re Dunn	374 (1909)	Peckham	none	none	C.C.N.D. Tex.	mandamus denied
Bradford v. Morrison	389 (1909)	Peckham	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. Ariz.	affirmed
Harten v. Löffler	397 (1909)	Peckham	none	none	D.C. Cir.	affirmed
North Shore Boom and Driving Company v. Nicomen Boom Company	406 (1909)	Peckham	none	none	Wash.	dismissed
Louisiana Railroad Commission v. Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Company	414 (1909)	Peckham	none	none	C.C.E.D. La.	reversed
McDaniel v. Traylor	428 (1909)	McKenna	none	none	C.C.E.D. Ark.	affirmed
Greenameyer v. Coate	434 (1909)	McKenna	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. Okla.	affirmed
Grant Shoe Company v. W.M. Laird Company	445 (1909)	Holmes	none	none	W.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Cariño v. Philippines	449 (1909)	Holmes	none	none	Phil.	reversed
Santos v. Holy Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church	463 (1909)	Holmes	none	none	Phil.	affirmed
The Eugene F. Moran	466 (1909)	Holmes	none	none	2d Cir.	certification
Bagley v. General Fire Extinguisher Company	477 (1909)	Holmes	none	none	2d Cir.	dismissed
New York Central Railroad Company v. United States I	481 (1909)	Day	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
New York Central Railroad Company v. United States II	500 (1909)	Day	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
United States v. New York Central Railroad Company	509 (1909)	Day	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	reversed
Mullan v. United States	516 (1909)	Day	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
American Express Company v. United States	522 (1909)	Day	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
Texas and Pacific Railroad Company v. Bourman	536 (1909)	Moody	none	none	5th Cir.	reversed
Toy Toy v. Hopkins	542 (1909)	Fuller	none	none	C.C.W.D. Wash.	affirmed

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 212 from Library of Congress
• Case reports in volume 212 from Court Listener
• Case reports in volume 212 from the Caselaw Access Project of Harvard Law School
• Case reports in volume 212 from Google Scholar
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• Case reports in volume 212 from Open Jurist
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