List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Waite Court
Appearance
This is a chronological list of notable cases decided by the United States Supreme Court during the tenure of Chief Justice Morrison Waite (4 March 1874 through 23 March 1888).
Case name | Citation | Summary |
---|---|---|
Totten v. United States | 92 U.S. 105 (1875) | jurisdiction over espionage agreements |
United States v. Cruikshank | 92 U.S. 542 (1875) | application of the First and Second Amendments to the states |
Munn v. Illinois | 94 U.S. 113 (1876) | corporations and agricultural regulation |
Pennoyer v. Neff | 95 U.S. 714 (1877) | bases of personal jurisdiction over defendants |
City of Elizabeth v. American Nicholson Pavement Co. | 97 U.S. 126 (1878) | experimental use exception to the on-sale bar in United States patent law |
Reynolds v. United States | 98 U.S. 145 (1878) | polygamy and freedom of religion |
Wilkerson v. Utah | 99 U.S. 130 (1878) | capital punishment |
Baker v. Selden | 101 U.S. 99 (1879) | differences between copyright & patent law |
Strauder v. West Virginia | 100 U.S. 303 (1880) | exclusion of blacks from juries |
Springer v. United States | 102 U.S. 586 (1881) | constitutionality of income tax set up by the Revenue Act of 1864 |
Kilbourn v. Thompson | 103 U.S. 168 (1880) | limitations on Congressional investigations |
Egbert v. Lippmann | 104 U.S. 333 (1881) | early case concerning the on-sale bar in patent law |
Pace v. Alabama | 106 U.S. 583 (1883) | affirmed that Alabama's anti-miscegenation statute banning interracial marriage and interracial sex was not a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. |
United States v. Harris (the Ku Klux Case) | 106 U.S. 629 (1883) | No Congressional power to pass ordinary criminal statutes |
Civil Rights Cases | 109 U.S. 3 (1883) | power of federal government to prohibit racial discrimination by private parties |
Hurtado v. California | 110 U.S. 516 (1884) | no requirement that states use a grand jury to indict a defendant in a murder prosecution |
Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony | 111 U.S. 53 (1884) | copyrightability of photographs |
New England Mutual Life Insurance Co. v. Woodworth | 111 U.S. 138 (1884) | insurance law |
Elk v. Wilkins | 112 U.S. 94 (1884) | citzenship of native Americans |
Head Money Cases | 112 U.S. 580 (1884) | treaties |
Cole v. La Grange | 113 U.S. 1 (1885) | the court held that the Missouri legislature could not authorize a city to issue bonds to assist corporations in their private business. |
Central Railroad & Banking Co. of Ga. v. Pettus | 113 U.S. 116 (1885) | An appeal regarding monies owed and a lein upon the roadbed, depots, side tracks, turnouts, trestles, and bridges owned and used by the appellants. |
Avegno v. Schmidt | 113 U.S. 293 (1885) | title to mortgaged property confiscated by the U.S. government during the Civil War |
Baylis v. Travellers' Ins. Co. | 113 U.S. 316 (1885) | right to trial by jury in a civil case |
California Artificial Stone Paving Co. v. Molitor | 113 U.S. 609 (1885) | Patent infringement case on an improvement in concrete paving |
Winona & St. Peter R. Co. v. Barney | 113 U.S. 618 (1885) | Public land grant for Railroad construction |
Kansas Pacific R. Co. v. Dunmeyer | 113 U.S. 629 (1885) | Land ownership dispute |
Schmieder v. Barney | 113 U.S. 645 (1885) | case regarding description of articles subject to duty |
Railroad Commission Cases | 116 U.S. 307 (1886) | contracts, police power, regulation of transport |
Yick Wo v. Hopkins | 118 U.S. 356 (1886) | equal protection, facially-neutral laws administered in a discriminatory manner |
United States v. Kagama | 118 U.S. 375 (1886) | federal court jurisdiction over crimes committed on Indian reservations |
Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad | 118 U.S. 394 (1886) | corporate personhood |
Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad Company v. Illinois | 118 U.S. 557 (1886) | regulation of interstate commerce by individual states, creation of ICC |
Ker v. Illinois | 119 U.S. 436 (1886) | legality of abduction of criminal suspect abroad |
The Telephone Cases | 126 U.S. 1 (1888) | patent law |