List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 193

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Supreme Court of the United States
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EstablishedMarch 4, 1789; 235 years ago (1789-03-04)
LocationWashington, D.C.
Coordinates38°53′26″N 77°00′16″W / 38.89056°N 77.00444°W / 38.89056; -77.00444
Composition methodPresidential nomination with Senate confirmation
Authorized byConstitution of the United States, Art. III, § 1
Judge term lengthlife tenure, subject to impeachment and removal
Number of positions9 (by statute)
Websitesupremecourt.gov

This is a list of cases reported in volume 193 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1904.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 193 U.S.[edit]

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 193 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)
Henry Billings Brown Associate Justice Michigan Samuel Freeman Miller December 29, 1890
(Acclamation)
January 5, 1891

May 28, 1906
(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)
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)

Notable Case in 193 U.S.[edit]

Railroad czar James J. Hill, c. 1890

Northern Securities Company v. United States[edit]

Northern Securities Company v. United States, 193 U.S. 197 (1904), is a landmark antitrust decision of the Supreme Court. The Court ruled 5 to 4 against the stockholders of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroad companies, who had formed a monopoly under the Northern Securities Company. The public had become greatly alarmed by Northern Securities, which threatened to become the largest company in the world and to corner the railroad traffic in the western United States. The Court's decision was a blow to monopolist James J. Hill, who had helped engineer the formation of Northern Securities, and was a victory for President Theodore Roosevelt's trust-busting activities under the Sherman Antitrust Act. The dissenting opinion of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. included the famous passage: "Great cases like hard cases make bad law. For great cases are called great, not by reason of their real importance in shaping the law of the future, but because of some accident of immediate overwhelming interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment."

Citation style[edit]

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 193 U.S.[edit]

Case Name Page and year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition
United States v. Northern Pacific Railroad Company 1 (1904) Fuller none none 9th Cir. affirmed
Carstairs v. Cochran 10 (1904) Brewer none none Md. affirmed
Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad Company v. Osborn 17 (1904) White none none Mich. affirmed
Cincinnati Street Railway Company v. Snell 30 (1904) White none none Ohio affirmed
Montague Company v. Lowry 38 (1904) Peckham none none 9th Cir. affirmed
American Book Company v. Kansas ex rel. Nichols 49 (1904) McKenna none none Kan. dismissed
Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway Company v. Minnesota 53 (1904) McKenna none none Minn. affirmed
Ah How v. United States 65 (1904) Holmes none none E.D.N.Y. affirmed
Leigh v. Green 79 (1904) Day none none Neb. affirmed
Julian v. Central Trust Company 93 (1904) Day none none 4th Cir. affirmed
United States v. Choctaw Nation 115 (1904) McKenna none none Ct. Cl. affirmed
Delaware Indians v. Cherokee Nation 127 (1904) Day none none Ct. Cl. affirmed
Giles v. Teasley 146 (1904) Day none none Ala. dismissed
Security Land Exploration Company v. Burns 167 (1904) Peckham none none Minn. affirmed
Security Land Exploration Company v. Weckey 188 (1904) Peckham none none Minn. affirmed
Winous Point Shooting Club v. Caspersen 189 (1904) Fuller none none Ohio dismissed
Hodges v. Colcord 192 (1904) Brewer none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Okla. affirmed
Northern Securities Company v. United States 197 (1904) Harlan (plurality) Brewer White; Holmes C.C.D. Minn. affirmed
Eaton v. Brown 411 (1904) Holmes none none D.C. Cir. reversed
Underground Railroad v. City of New York 416 (1904) Fuller none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed
Barney v. City of New York 430 (1904) Fuller none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed
Huntington v. City of New York 441 (1904) Fuller none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed
Boering v. Chesapeake Beach Railway Company 442 (1904) Brewer none none D.C. Cir. affirmed
Gagnon v. United States 451 (1904) Brown none none Ct. Cl. affirmed
Tinker v. Colwell 473 (1904) Peckham none none N.Y. Sup. Ct. affirmed
Fargo v. Hart 490 (1904) Holmes none none C.C.D. Ind. reversed
Rippey v. Texas 504 (1904) Holmes none none Tex. Crim. App. affirmed
Adams v. Church 510 (1904) Day none none Or. Cir. Ct. affirmed
Tom Hong v. United States 517 (1904) Day none none E.D.N.Y. reversed
Bache v. Hunt 523 (1904) Fuller none none C.C.N.D. Ohio dismissed
Yaple v. Dahl-Millikan Grocery Company 526 (1904) Fuller none none 6th Cir. certification
United States v. Jones 528 (1904) Fuller none none Ct. Cl. affirmed
Great Southern Fire Proof Hotel Company v. Jones 532 (1904) Harlan none none 6th Cir. affirmed
Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Hill 551 (1904) Brewer none none 9th Cir. reversed
Newburyport Water Company v. City of Newburyport 561 (1904) White none none C.C.D. Mass. reversed
Gloucester Water Supply Company v. City of Gloucester 580 (1904) White none none C.C.D. Mass. reversed
Third National Bank v. Buffalo German Insurance Company 581 (1904) White none none N.Y. affirmed
United States v. McCoy 593 (1904) White none none 9th Cir. reversed
Platt v. Wilmot 602 (1904) Peckham none none 2d Cir. affirmed
Sloan v. United States 614 (1904) Peckham none none C.C.D. Neb. dismissed
Pope v. Williams 621 (1904) Peckham none none Md. affirmed
National Mutual Building and Loan Association v. Brahan 635 (1904) McKenna none none Miss. affirmed
United States v. Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company Company 651 (1904) McKenna none none Ct. Cl. affirmed
Wright v. Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company 657 (1904) Day none none C.C.D. Minn. affirmed

Notes and references[edit]

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

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