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List Of United States Supreme Court Cases, Volume 160

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.

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). 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:

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)
Stephen Johnson Field Associate Justice California newly created seat March 10, 1863
(Acclamation)
May 10, 1863

December 1, 1897
(Retired)
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)

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 Name Page and year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition
United States v. Union Pacific Railroad Company 1 (1895) Harlan none none 8th Cir. reversed
United States v. Western Union Telegraph Company 53 (1895) Harlan none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed
Goldsby v. United States 70 (1895) White none none C.C.W.D. Ark. affirmed
Washington and Idaho Railway v. Coeur d'Alene Railway and Navigation Company 77 (1895) Shiras none none 9th Cir. affirmed
Washington and Idaho Railway v. Osborn 103 (1895) Shiras none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Idaho affirmed
McCarty v. Lehigh Valley Railroad Company 110 (1895) Brown none none C.C.E.D. Pa. affirmed
Folsom v. United States 121 (1895) Fuller none none 8th Cir. certification
Streep v. United States 128 (1895) Gray none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed
United States v. Healey 136 (1895) Harlan none none Ct. Cl. reversed
Bamberger v. Schoolfield 149 (1895) White none none C.C.N.D. Ala. affirmed
New Orleans Flour Inspectors v. Glover 170 (1895) Fuller none none C.C.E.D. La. dismissed
Townsend v. Vanderwerker 171 (1895) Brown none none Sup. Ct. D.C. reversed
Ballew v. United States 187 (1895) White none none C.C.N.D. Ga. reversed
Allison v. United States 203 (1895) Fuller none none C.C.W.D. Ark. reversed
Interior Construction and Improvement Company v. Gibney 217 (1895) Gray none none C.C.D. Ind. reversed
In Re Keasbey and Mattison Company 221 (1895) Gray none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. mandamus denied
Whitten v. Tomlinson 231 (1895) Gray none none C.C.D. Conn. affirmed
In re Sanford Fork and Tool Company 247 (1895) Gray none none C.C.D. Ind. mandamus denied
Central Railroad Company v. Keegan 259 (1895) White none none 2d Cir. certification
Moore v. United States 268 (1895) Brown none none S.D. Ala. reversed
Keane v. Brygger 276 (1895) Field none none Wash. affirmed
Jersey City and Bergen Railroad Company v. Morgan 288 (1895) Fuller none none N.J. Sup. Ct. dismissed
Kohl v. Lehlback 293 (1895) Fuller none none C.C.D.N.J. affirmed
Haws v. Victoria Copper Mining Company 303 (1895) White none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Utah affirmed
Markham v. United States 319 (1895) Harlan none none D. Ky. affirmed
Lehigh Mining and Manufacturing Company v. Kelly 327 (1895) Harlan none Shiras C.C.W.D. Va. affirmed
Pierce v. United States 355 (1896) Brown none none C.C.W.D. Ark. affirmed
Bartlett v. Lockwood 357 (1896) Brown none none N.Y. Sup. Ct. dismissed
Van Wagenen v. Sewall 369 (1896) Brown none none N.D. Fla. dismissed
Union Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Kirchoff 374 (1896) Brown none none Ill. dismissed
Kirby v. Tallmadge 379 (1896) Brown none none Sup. Ct. D.C. affirmed
Iowa Central Railway Company v. Iowa 389 (1896) White none none Iowa dismissed
Spalding v. Chandler 394 (1896) White none none Mich. affirmed
Hickory v. United States 408 (1896) White none none C.C.W.D. Ark. reversed
Gill v. United States 426 (1896) Brown none none Ct. Cl. affirmed
Southern Pacific Railroad Company v. Pool 438 (1896) White none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Utah reversed
Eldridge v. Trezevant 452 (1896) Shiras none none C.C.W.D. La. affirmed
Davis v. United States 469 (1895) Harlan none none C.C.W.D. Ark. reversed
United States v. Sayward 493 (1895) Harlan none none C.C.D. Wash. reversed
Chappell v. United States 499 (1896) Gray none none D. Md. affirmed
Jacksonville, Mayport, Pablo Railway and Navigation Company v. Hooper 514 (1896) Shiras none none C.C.N.D. Fla. affirmed
Laing v. Rigney 531 (1896) Shiras none none N.Y. Sup. Ct. reversed
Johnson v. United States 546 (1896) Brewer none none Ct. Cl. affirmed
Carver v. United States 553 (1896) Fuller none none C.C.W.D. Ark. reversed
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company v. Fitzgerald 556 (1896) Fuller none none Neb. dismissed
Dickson v. Patterson 584 (1896) Harlan none none C.C.D. Neb. reversed
United States v. Fuller 593 (1896) Brown none none Ct. Cl. affirmed
United States v. New York 598 (1896) Harlan none none Ct. Cl. reversed
Nalle v. Young 624 (1896) Fuller none none C.C.W.D. La. reversed
Gregory v. Van Ee 643 (1896) Fuller none none 1st Cir. dismissed
Chemical National Bank v. City Bank 646 (1896) Fuller none none Ill. dismissed
United States v. Thornton 654 (1896) Brown none none Ct. Cl. reversed
First National Bank v. Ayers 660 (1896) Peckham none none Kan. affirmed
United States v. Gettysburg Electric Railway Company 668 (1896) Peckham none none C.C.E.D. Pa. reversed
Sioux City and St. Paul Railroad Company v. United States 686 (1896) Harlan none none C.C.N.D. Iowa rehearing denied
Missouri v. Iowa 688 (1896) Fuller none none original boundary adjusted

Notes and references

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

See also