List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 178

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Composition method	Presidential nomination with Senate confirmation
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Judge term length	life tenure, subject to impeachment and removal
Number of positions	9 (by statute)
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This is a list of cases reported in volume 178 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1900.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 178 U.S.

See also: List of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States

See also: List of United States Supreme Court justices by time in office

See also: List of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States by court composition

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 178 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)
	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)
	Joseph McKenna	Associate Justice	California	Stephen Johnson Field	January 21, 1898 (Acclamation)	January 26, 1898 – January 5, 1925 (Retired)

Citation style

See also: United States district court

See also: United States circuit court

See also: United States court of appeals

See also: United States federal courts

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.

• "# Cir." = United States Court of Appeals
  • e.g., "3d Cir." = United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• "C.C.D." = United States Circuit Court for the District of . . .
  • e.g.,"C.C.D.N.J." = United States Circuit Court for the District of New Jersey
• "D." = United States District Court for the District of . . .
  • e.g.,"D. Mass." = United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
• "E." = Eastern; "M." = Middle; "N." = Northern; "S." = Southern; "W." = Western
  • e.g.,"C.C.S.D.N.Y." = United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York
  • e.g.,"M.D. Ala." = United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama
• "Ct. Cl." = United States Court of Claims
• The abbreviation of a state's name alone indicates the highest appellate court in that state's judiciary at the time.
  • e.g.,"Pa." = Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
  • e.g.,"Me." = Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

List of cases in volume 178 U.S.

See also: Fuller Court

Case Name	Page and year	Opinion of the Court	Concurring opinion(s)	Dissenting opinion(s)	Lower Court	Disposition of case
Roehm v. Horst	1 (1900)	Fuller	none	none	3d Cir.	affirmed
Osborne v. San Diego Land and Town Company	22 (1900)	McKenna	none	none	C.C.S.D. Cal.	affirmed
Knowlton v. Moore	41 (1900)	White	none	Harlan	C.C.E.D.N.Y.	reversed
High v. Coyne	111 (1900)	White	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
Fidelity Insurance Trust and Safe Deposit Company v. McClain	113 (1900)	White	none	none	C.C.E.D. Pa.	affirmed
Plummer v. Coler	115 (1900)	Shiras	none	none	N.Y. County Sur. Ct.	affirmed
Murdock v. Ward	139 (1900)	Shiras	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	reversed
Sherman v. United States	150 (1900)	Shiras	none	none	C.C.N.D.N.Y.	reversed
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company v. Howard	153 (1900)	Peckham	none	none	D.C. Cir.	affirmed
Castner v. Coffman	168 (1900)	White	none	none	4th Cir.	affirmed
Clarke v. Clarke	186 (1900)	White	none	none	Conn.	affirmed
Browning v. De Ford	196 (1900)	Brown	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. Okla.	affirmed
Moran v. Horsky	205 (1900)	Brewer	none	none	Mont.	dismissed
Tarpey v. Madsen	215 (1900)	Brewer	none	none	Utah	reversed
McDonnell v. Jordan	229 (1900)	Fuller	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ala.	reversed
Western Union Telegraph Company v. Ann Arbor Railroad Company	239 (1900)	Fuller	none	none	6th Cir.	reversed
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company v. Martin	245 (1900)	Fuller	none	none	Kan.	affirmed
Rider v. United States	251 (1900)	Harlan	none	none	C.C.S.D. Ohio	reversed
North American Transportation and Trading Company v. Morrison	262 (1900)	Shiras	none	none	C.C.D. Wash.	reversed
Pittsburgh and Lake Angeline Iron Company v. Cleveland Iron Mining Company	270 (1900)	McKenna	none	none	Mich.	dismissed
Corralitos Company v. United States	280 (1900)	Peckham	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Sully v. American National Bank	289 (1900)	Peckham	none	none	Tenn.	multiple
Fitzpatrick v. United States	304 (1900)	Brown	none	none	D. Alaska	affirmed
Ex parte Union Steamboat Company	317 (1900)	Brown	none	none	E.D. Mich.	mandamus denied
Wheeler v. New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company	321 (1900)	Brown	none	none	Conn.	affirmed
Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York v. Phinney	327 (1900)	Brewer	none	none	9th Cir.	reversed
Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York v. Sears	345 (1900)	Brewer	none	none	9th Cir.	reversed
Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York v. Hill	347 (1900)	Brewer	none	none	9th Cir.	reversed
Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York v. Allen	351 (1900)	Brewer	none	none	9th Cir.	reversed
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company v. Clark	353 (1900)	Fuller	none	none	2d Cir.	reversed
Moffett, Hodgkins and Clarke Company v. City of Rochester	373 (1900)	McKenna	none	none	2d Cir.	affirmed
New York Life Insurance Company v. Cravens	389 (1900)	McKenna	none	none	Mo.	affirmed
Banholzer v. New York Life Insurance Company	402 (1900)	McKenna	none	none	Minn.	dismissed
Deserant v. Cerillos Coal Railroad Company	409 (1900)	McKenna	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M.	reversed
In re Connaway	421 (1900)	McKenna	none	none	9th Cir.	mandamus granted
Smith v. Reeves	436 (1900)	Harlan	none	none	9th Cir.	affirmed
Earle v. Pennsylvania	449 (1900)	Harlan	none	none	Pa.	reversed
Earle v. Conway	456 (1900)	Harlan	none	none	Pa.	affirmed
Motes v. United States	458 (1900)	Harlan	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ala.	multiple
Hawley v. Diller	476 (1900)	Harlan	none	none	9th Cir.	affirmed
May Company v. City of New Orleans	496 (1900)	Harlan	none	none	La.	affirmed
Dewey v. United States	510 (1900)	Harlan	none	Fuller	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Bardes v. Hawarden Bank	524 (1900)	Gray	none	none	N.D. Iowa	affirmed
Mitchell v. McClure	539 (1900)	Gray	none	none	W.D. Pa.	affirmed
Hicks v. Knost	541 (1900)	Gray	none	none	6th Cir.	certification
White v. Schloerb	542 (1900)	Gray	none	none	7th Cir.	certification
Taylor v. Beckham	548 (1900)	Fuller	none	Brewer; Harlan	Ky.	dismissed

See also

• Certificate of division

External links

• [1] Case reports in volume 178 from Library of Congress
• [2] Case reports in volume 178 from Court Listener
• [3] Case reports in volume 178 from the Caselaw Access Project of Harvard Law School
• [4] Case reports in volume 178 from Google Scholar
• [5] Case reports in volume 178 from Justia
• [6] Case reports in volume 178 from Open Jurist
• Website of the United States Supreme Court
• United States Courts website about the Supreme Court
• National Archives, Records of the Supreme Court of the United States
• American Bar Association, How Does the Supreme Court Work?
• The Supreme Court Historical Society