List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 202

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Supreme Court of the United States
Seal of the United States Supreme Court.svg
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 202 of United States Reports , decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1906.

Contents

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 202 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 202 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)
JudgeJMHarlan.jpg John Marshall Harlan Associate Justice Kentucky David Davis November 29, 1877
(Acclamation)
December 10, 1877

October 14, 1911
(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)
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)
Justice McKenna.jpg Joseph McKenna Associate Justice California Stephen Johnson Field January 21, 1898
(Acclamation)
January 26, 1898

January 5, 1925
(Retired)
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr circa 1930-edit.jpg Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Associate Justice Massachusetts Horace Gray December 4, 1902
(Acclamation)
December 8, 1902

January 12, 1932
(Retired)
Justice William R. Day.jpg William R. Day Associate Justice Ohio George Shiras Jr. February 23, 1903
(Acclamation)
March 2, 1903

November 13, 1922
(Retired)

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 202 U.S.

Case NamePage & yearOpinion of the CourtConcurring opinion(s)Dissenting opinion(s)Lower CourtDisposition
Louisiana v. Mississippi I 1 (1906) Fullernonenone original decree for La.
Louisiana v. Mississippi II 58 (1906) per curiam nonenone original decree for La.
Iowa v. Illinois 59 (1906) per curiam nonenone original boundary set
Oregon v. Hitchcock 60 (1906) Brewernonenone original dismissed
Hazelton v. Sheckells 71 (1906) Holmesnonenone D.C. Cir. affirmed
Perez v. Fernandez 80 (1906) DaynoneWhite D.P.R. reversed
United States v. Cherokee Nation 101 (1906) Fullernonenone Ct. Cl. affirmed
Whitney v. Dick 132 (1906) Brewernonenone 9th Cir. reversed
First Nat'l Bank v. Staake 141 (1906) Brownnonenone 4th Cir. affirmed
McHarg v. Staake 150 (1906) per curiam nonenone 4th Cir. affirmed
Sawyer v. United States 150 (1906) Peckhamnonenone C.C.E.D.N.C. affirmed
United States v. Milliken I. Co. 168 (1906) Holmesnonenone Ct. Cl. reversed
In re Lincoln 178 (1906) Brewernonenone D. Neb. habeas corpus denied
United States v. Cornell S.B. Co. 184 (1906) Brownnonenone 2d Cir. affirmed
Darlington v. Turner 195 (1906) Whitenonenone D.C. Cir. reversed
Texas & P. Ry. Co. v. Mugg 242 (1906) Whitenonenone Tex. App. reversed
Security M.L. Ins. Co. v. Prewitt 246 (1906) PeckhamnoneDay Ky. affirmed
Gila Bend R. & I. Co. v. Gila W. Co. 270 (1906) McKennanonenone Sup. Ct. Terr. Ariz. affirmed
Hulbert v. City of Chicago 275 (1906) McKennanonenone Ill. dismissed
Pearson v. Williams 281 (1906) Holmesnonenone 2d Cir. affirmed
Halsell v. Renfrow 287 (1906) Holmesnonenone Sup. Ct. Terr. Okla. affirmed
Merchants' Nat'l Bank v. Wehrmann 295 (1906) Holmesnonenone Ohio reversed
United States v. Dieckerhoff 302 (1906) Daynonenone 2d Cir. reversed
Devine v. City of Los Angeles 313 (1906) Fullernonenone C.C.S.D. Cal. affirmed
Ortega v. Lara 339 (1906) Fullernonenone D.P.R. dismissed
Burton v. United States 344 (1906) HarlanMcKennaBrewer C.C.E.D. Mo. affirmed
James v. United States 401 (1906) Whitenonenone Ct. Cl. reversed
Ayer & L.T. Co. v. Kentucky 409 (1906) Whitenonenone Ky. reversed
Millard v. Roberts 429 (1906) McKennanonenone D.C. Cir. affirmed
Santa Fe P.R.R. Co. v. Holmes 438 (1906) McKennanonenone 9th Cir. affirmed
Cox v. Texas 446 (1906) HolmesnoneHarlan Tex. Civ. App. affirmed
City of Vicksburg v. Vicksburg W. Co. 453 (1906) DaynoneHarlan C.C.S.D. Miss. affirmed
Naganab v. Hitchcock 473 (1906) Daynonenone D.C. Cir. affirmed
Bush v. Elliott 477 (1906) Daynonenone C.C.N.D. Ala. reversed
Lincoln v. United States 484 (1906) FullernoneWhitemultiplereversed
O’Conor v. Texas 501 (1906) Brewernonenone Tex. affirmed
McDonald v. Dewey 510 (1906) BrownnoneWhite 7th Cir. multiple
McNeill v. Southern Ry. Co. 543 (1906) Whitenonenone C.C.E.D.N.C. affirmed
United States v. American S.R. Co. 563 (1906) McKennanonenone C.C.S.D.N.Y. reversed
Franklin S.R. Co. v. United States 580 (1906) McKennanonenone C.C.E.D. Pa. affirmed
New York ex rel. New York et al. R.R. Co. v. Miller 584 (1906) Holmesnonenone N.Y. Sup. Ct. affirmed
Missouri v. Illinois 598 (1906) Holmesnonenone original costs to Ill.
McDermott v. Severe 600 (1906) Daynonenone D.C. Cir. affirmed

Notes and references

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

    See also