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 (March 4, 1874 through March 23, 1888).
Case name | Citation | Summary |
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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 |
Trade-Mark Cases | 100 U.S. 82 (1879) | Copyright Clause does not give Congress the power to regulate trademarks |
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 |
Maxwell's Executors v. Wilkinson | 113 U.S. 656 (1885) | writ of error brought by the executors of a former collector of the port of New York to reverse a judgment in an action brought against him by the defendant in error to recover duties paid by them on imported iron |
Flagg v. Walker | 113 U.S. 659 (1885) | case where the deeds for several parcels of land were transferred from Flagg, who was in financial difficulty, to Walker in return for paying off Flagg's debts and profits from the sale against a mortgage for other property owned by Flagg. |
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 |