List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Waite Court

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
Camp v. United States	113 U.S. 648 (1885)	case to recover an alleged balance due as compensation for collecting and delivering to the United States a large amount of cotton in bales which was captured and abandoned property
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