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List Of United States Supreme Court Cases, Volume 222

This is a list of cases reported in volume 222 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1911 and 1912.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 222 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 222 were decided the Court comprised the following eight members (following the death of Justice John Marshall Harlan):

Portrait Justice Office Home State Succeeded Date confirmed by the Senate
(Vote)
Tenure on Supreme Court
Edward Douglass White Chief Justice Louisiana Melville Fuller December 12, 1910
(Acclamation)
December 19, 1910

May 19, 1921
(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)
Horace Harmon Lurton Associate Justice Tennessee Rufus W. Peckham December 20, 1909
(Acclamation)
January 3, 1910

July 12, 1914
(Died)
Charles Evans Hughes Associate Justice New York David Josiah Brewer May 2, 1910
(Acclamation)
October 10, 1910

June 10, 1916
(Resigned)
Willis Van Devanter Associate Justice Wyoming Edward Douglass White (as Associate Justice) December 15, 1910
(Acclamation)
January 3, 1911

June 2, 1937
(Retired)
Joseph Rucker Lamar Associate Justice Georgia William Henry Moody December 15, 1910
(Acclamation)
January 3, 1911

January 2, 1916
(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.

On January 1, 1912, the effective date of the Judicial Code of 1911, the old Circuit Courts were abolished, with their remaining trial court jurisdiction transferred to the U.S. District Courts.

Bluebook citation style is used for case names, citations, and jurisdictions.

List of cases in volume 222 U.S.

Case Name Page & year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition
Blinn v. Nelson 1 (1911) Holmes none none Mass. affirmed
United States v. Baltimore et al. R.R. Co. 8 (1911) McKenna none none S.D. Ohio affirmed
United States v. Plyler 15 (1911) Holmes none none W.D.N.C. reversed
Virginia v. West Virginia 17 (1911) Holmes none none original continued
Southern R.R. Co. v. United States 20 (1911) VanDevanter none none N.D. Ala. affirmed
Finley v. California 28 (1911) McKenna none none Cal. affirmed
Helm v. Zarecor 32 (1911) Hughes none none C.C.M.D. Tenn. reversed
Troy Bank v. G.A. Whitehead & Co. 39 (1911) VanDevanter none none C.C.W.D. Ky. reversed
ICC v. Diffenbaugh 42 (1911) Holmes none McKenna C.C.W.D. Mo. affirmed
Lenman v. Jones 51 (1911) Holmes none none D.C. Cir. affirmed
Kalem Co. v. Harper Bros. 55 (1911) Holmes none none 2d Cir. affirmed
Southern P. Co. v. Kentucky 63 (1911) Lurton none none Ky. affirmed
Curtin v. Benson 78 (1911) McKenna none none C.C.N.D. Cal. reversed
Hussey v. United States 88 (1911) McKenna none none Ct. Cl. affirmed
Richardson v. Harmon 96 (1911) Lurton none none N.D. Ohio reversed
Bryan v. Ker 107 (1911) VanDevanter none none 4th Cir. reversed
T. Weller & Co. v. Munsuri 114 (1911) White none none D.P.R. dismissed
Munsuri v. Fricker 121 (1911) White none none D.P.R. dismissed
Enriquez v. Enriquez I 123 (1911) White none none Phil. dismissed
Enriquez v. Enriquez II 127 (1911) White none none Phil. dismissed
United States v. Eckstein 130 (1911) White none none 2d Cir. affirmed
Glickstein v. United States 139 (1911) White none none 5th Cir. certification
Ripley v. United States 144 (1911) White none none Ct. Cl. remanded
Grigsby v. Russell 149 (1911) Holmes none none 6th Cir. reversed
United States v. Fidelity T. Co. 158 (1911) Holmes none none Ct. Cl. reversed
Sandoval v. Randolph 161 (1911) Lurton none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Ariz. affirmed
Anderson v. United R. Co. 164 (1911) Lurton none none Ohio affirmed
United States v. Stever 167 (1911) Lurton none none W.D. Ky. affirmed
United States v. Munday 175 (1911) Lurton none none C.C.W.D. Wash. reversed
Missouri et al. R.R. Co. v. City of Olathe I 185 (1911) Hughes none none Kan. dismissed
Missouri et al. R.R. Co. v. City of Olathe II 187 (1911) Hughes none none Kan. dismissed
Missouri et al. R.R. Co. v. City of Olathe III 191 (1911) Hughes none none Kan. dismissed
Martin v. West 191 (1911) VanDevanter none none Wash. affirmed
United States v. Congress C. Co. 199 (1911) VanDevanter none none C.C.N.D. Ill. affirmed
United States ex rel. Turner v. Fisher 204 (1911) Lamar none none D.C. Cir. affirmed
Banker Bros. Co. v. Pennsylvania 210 (1911) Lamar none none Pa. Super. Ct. affirmed
Union P.R.R. Co. v. Updike Grain Co. 215 (1911) Lamar none none 8th Cir. affirmed
Chicago J.R.R. Co. v. King 222 (1911) White none none 7th Cir. affirmed
Mutual L. Co. v. Martell 225 (1911) McKenna none none Mass. Super. Ct. affirmed
Union P.R.R. Co. v. Mason City et al. R.R. Co. 237 (1911) McKenna none none C.C.D. Neb. reversed
Aluminum Co. v. Ramsey 251 (1911) McKenna none none Ark. affirmed
United States v. Garbish 257 (1911) McKenna none none C.C.E.D. La. reversed
Consaul v. Cummings 262 (1911) Lamar none none D.C. Cir. affirmed
United States v. Morgan 274 (1911) Lamar none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. reversed
United States ex rel. Kinney v. United States F. & G. Co. 283 (1911) White none none 3d Cir. affirmed
Lewers & Cooke, Ltd. v. Atcherly 285 (1911) Holmes none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Haw. affirmed
Mayer v. American S. & T. Co. 295 (1911) Holmes none none D.C. Cir. affirmed
Acme H. Co. v. Beekman L. Co. 300 (1911) Day none none Mo. affirmed
City of Chicago v. Sturges 313 (1911) Lurton none none Ill. affirmed
Brown v. Alton W. Co. 325 (1912) White none none C.C.S.D. Ill. dismissed
Berryman v. Whitman Coll. 334 (1912) White none none C.C.E.D. Wash. reversed
Rock Island P. Co. v. Reardon 354 (1912) White none none 7th Cir. affirmed
Gring v. Ives 365 (1912) White none none N.C. dismissed
Northern P.R.R. Co. v. Washington ex rel. Atkinson 370 (1912) White none none Wash. reversed
Red "C" O. Mfg. Co. v. Board of Agric. 380 (1912) White none none C.C.E.D.N.C. affirmed
Aran v. Zurrinach 395 (1912) White none none D.P.R. dismissed
Title G. & S. Co. v. United States ex rel. GE 401 (1912) White none none 3d Cir. supersedeas vacated
Vogt v. Graff 404 (1912) McKenna none none D.C. Cir. affirmed
Williams v. Walsh 415 (1912) McKenna none none Kan. affirmed
Southern R.R. Co. v. Reid I 424 (1912) McKenna none none N.C. reversed
Southern R.R. Co. v. Reid II 444 (1912) McKenna none none N.C. reversed
Treat v. Grand Canyon R.R. Co. 448 (1912) Holmes none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Ariz. affirmed
Gandia v. Pettingill 452 (1912) Holmes none none D.P.R. reversed
United States v. McMullen 460 (1912) Holmes none none 9th Cir. reversed
Cuba R.R. Co. v. Crosby 473 (1912) Holmes none none 3d Cir. reversed
Porto Rico S. Co. v. Lorenzo 481 (1912) Holmes none none D.P.R. affirmed
Peters v. Broward 483 (1912) Lurton none none C.C.N.D. Fla. affirmed
Huse v. United States 496 (1912) Lurton none none Ct. Cl. affirmed
Robinson v. Baltimore & O.R.R. Co. 506 (1912) VanDevanter none none W. Va. affirmed
United States v. Barnes 513 (1912) VanDevanter none none W.D. Ky. reversed
Soliah v. Heskin 522 (1912) Lamar none none N.D. Dist. Ct. affirmed
Keeney v. New York 525 (1912) Lamar none none Kings Cnty. Sur. Ct. affirmed
Johnson v. Collier 538 (1912) Lamar none none Ala. affirmed
ICC v. Union P.R.R. Co. 541 (1912) Lamar none none C.C.D. Minn. reversed
Fitz Gerald v. Thompson 555 (1912) White none none Pa. dismissed
Herrera v. United States 558 (1912) McKenna none none Ct. Cl. affirmed
Diaz v. United States 574 (1912) McKenna none none Ct. Cl. affirmed
Omaha et al. Ry. Co. v. ICC 582 (1911) per curiam none none Comm. Ct. continued

Notes and references

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

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