List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 194

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Supreme Court of the United States
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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 194 of United States Reports , decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1904.

Contents

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 194 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 194 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 194 U.S.

Case NamePage & yearOpinion of the CourtConcurring opinion(s)Dissenting opinion(s)Lower CourtDisposition
People's et al. Co. v. City of Chicago 1 (1904) Fullernonenone C.C.N.D. Ill. affirmed
Brown v. Schleier 18 (1904) McKennanonenone 8th Cir. affirmed
ICC v. Baird 25 (1904) Daynonenone C.C.S.D.N.Y. reversed
Minnesota v. Northern S. Co. 48 (1904) Harlannonenone C.C.D. Minn. reversed
Beavers v. Henkel 73 (1904) Brewernonenone C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed
Houghton v. Payne 88 (1904) BrownnoneHarlan D.C. Cir. affirmed
Smith v. Payne 104 (1904) Brownnonenone D.C. Cir. affirmed
Bates & G. Co. v. Payne 106 (1904) BrownnoneHarlan D.C. Cir. affirmed
Pacific E. Ry. Co. v. City of Los Angeles 112 (1904) McKennanonenone C.C.S.D. Cal. affirmed
Slater v. Mexican N.R.R. Co. 120 (1904) HolmesnoneFuller 5th Cir. affirmed
Southern Ry. Co. v. Carson 136 (1904) Fullernonenone S.C. affirmed
Kirby v. American S.F. Co. 141 (1904) Fullernonenone C.C.N.D. Tex. affirmed
Jones v. Montague 147 (1904) Brewernonenone C.C.E.D. Va. dismissed
Selden v. Montague 153 (1904) Brewernonenone C.C.E.D. Va. dismissed
Damon v. Hawaii 154 (1904) Holmesnonenone Sup. Ct. Terr. Haw. reversed
United States v. Sing Tuck Or Do 161 (1904) HolmesnoneBrewer 2d Cir. reversed
Gibson v. United States 182 (1904) Daynonenone Ct. Cl. affirmed
Lowe v. United States 193 (1904) Daynonenone Ct. Cl. affirmed
Ex parte United States 194 (1904) Fullernonenone N.D. Ohio mandamus granted
City & S. Ry. v. Svedborg 201 (1904) Harlannonenone D.C. Cir. affirmed
Pettit v. Walshe 205 (1904) Harlannonenone C.C.D. Ind. affirmed
Clipper M. Co. v. Eli M. & L. Co. 220 (1904) Brewernonenone Colo. affirmed
St. Louis M. & M. Co. v. Montana M. Co. 235 (1904) Brewernonenone 9th Cir. affirmed
The Iroquois 240 (1904) Brownnonenone 9th Cir. affirmed
Elder v. Horseshoe M. & M. Co. 248 (1904) Peckhamnonenone S.D. affirmed
West v. Louisiana 258 (1904) Peckhamnonenone La. affirmed
Missouri et al. Ry. Co. v. May 267 (1904) HolmesnoneBrownBell Cnty. Ct.affirmed
Raphael v. Trask 272 (1904) Daynonenone C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed
United States ex rel. Turner v. Williams 279 (1904) FullerBrewernone C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed
Hewit v. Berlin M. Works 296 (1904) Fullernonenone 2d Cir. affirmed
Hanks D. Ass'n v. International T.C. Co. 303 (1904) Fullernonenone 2d Cir. certification
Plymouth C. Co. v. Smith 311 (1904) Fullernonenone 8th Cir. certification
Ribas y Hijo v. United States 315 (1904) Harlannonenone D.P.R. affirmed
Bessette v. W.B. Conkey Co. 324 (1904) Brewernonenone 7th Cir. certification
Northern P. Ry. Co. v. Dixon 338 (1904) BrewernoneWhite 8th Cir. certification
Filhiol v. Torney 356 (1904) Brewernonenone C.C.E.D. Ark. affirmed
Fischer v. City of St Louis 361 (1904) Brownnonenone Mo. affirmed
United States ex rel. Holzendorf v. Hay 373 (1904) Whitenonenone D.C. Cir. dismissed
Sun P. & P. Ass'n v. Edwards 377 (1904) Whitenonenone 2d Cir. certification
Morris v. Hitchcock 384 (1904) Whitenonenone D.C. Cir. affirmed
United States v. Anderson 394 (1904) Whitenonenone Ct. Cl. affirmed
Hy-Yu-Tse-Mil-Kin v. Smith 401 (1904) Peckhamnonenone 9th Cir. affirmed
Hooker v. Burr 415 (1904) Peckhamnonenone Cal. affirmed
Cau v. Texas & P. Ry. Co. 427 (1904) McKennanonenone 5th Cir. affirmed
Charnock v. Texas & P. Ry. Co. 432 (1904) McKennanonenone 5th Cir. affirmed
Swarts v. Hammer 441 (1904) McKennanonenone 8th Cir. affirmed
Ohio ex rel. Lloyd v. Dollison 445 (1904) McKennanonenone Ohio affirmed
Davis v. Mills 451 (1904) Holmesnonenone 2d Cir. certification
In re Christensen E. Co. 458 (1904) Fullernonenone 2d Cir. mandamus granted
Crowley v. United States 461 (1904) Harlannonenone D.P.R. reversed
Knepper v. Sands 476 (1904) Harlannonenone 8th Cir. certification
Binns v. United States 486 (1904) Brewernonenone D. Alaska affirmed
Wynn-Johnson v. Shoup 496 (1904) Brewernonenone D. Alaska affirmed
Public C. House v. Coyne 497 (1904) Brownnonenone C.C.N.D. Ill. affirmed
City of Cleveland v. Cleveland C. Ry. Co. 517 (1904) Whitenonenone C.C.N.D. Ohio affirmed
City of Cleveland v. Cleveland E. Ry. Co. 538 (1904) Whitenonenone C.C.N.D. Ohio affirmed
Dimmick v. Tompkins 540 (1904) Peckhamnonenone C.C.N.D. Cal. affirmed
Shepard v. Barron 553 (1904) Peckhamnonenone C.C.S.D. Ohio affirmed
Burrell v. Montana 572 (1904) McKennanonenone Mont. affirmed
Terre Haute & I.R.R. Co. v. Indiana ex rel. Ketcham 579 (1904) Holmesnonenone Ind. reversed
Chandler v. Dix 590 (1904) Holmesnonenone C.C.E.D. Mich. affirmed
Shaw v. City of Covington 593 (1904) Holmesnonenone C.C.E.D. Ky. affirmed
International P.S. Co. v. Bruce 601 (1904) HolmesnoneHarlan 2d Cir. certification
Field v. Barber A.P. Co. 618 (1904) Daynonenone C.C.W.D. Mo. multiple
Rawson v. Western S.B. Co. 627 (1904) Harlannonenone C.C.N.D. Ill. affirmed

Notes and references

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

    See also