This is a list of cases reported in volume 225 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1912.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 225 U.S.

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 225 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 Edward Douglass White Chief Justice Louisiana Melville Fuller (Acclamation) –May 19, 1921(Died) Joseph McKenna Associate Justice California Stephen Johnson Field (Acclamation) –January 5, 1925(Retired) Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Associate Justice Massachusetts Horace Gray (Acclamation) –January 12, 1932(Retired) William R. Day Associate Justice Ohio George Shiras Jr. (Acclamation) –November 13, 1922(Retired) Horace Harmon Lurton Associate Justice Tennessee Rufus W. Peckham (Acclamation) –July 12, 1914(Died) Charles Evans Hughes Associate Justice New York David Josiah Brewer (Acclamation) –June 10, 1916(Resigned) Willis Van Devanter Associate Justice Wyoming Edward Douglass White (as Associate Justice) (Acclamation) –June 2, 1937(Retired) Joseph Rucker Lamar Associate Justice Georgia William Henry Moody (Acclamation) –January 2, 1916(Died) Mahlon Pitney Associate Justice New Jersey John Marshall Harlan (50–26) –December 31, 1922(Resigned)

Notable Case in 225 U.S. Hyde v. United States Hyde v. United States, 225 U.S. 347 (1912), is a criminal case in which the Supreme Court interpreted attempt.Criminal Law - Cases and Materials, 7th ed. 2012, Wolters Kluwer Law & Business; John Kaplan (law professor), Robert Weisberg, Guyora Binder, , The Court held that for an act to be a criminal attempt, it must be so near the result that the danger of its success must be very large. The Court wrote, "There must be a dangerous proximity to success."

Citation style

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.

On January 1, 1912, the effective date of the Judicial Code of 1911, the old Circuit Courts were abolished, with their remaining trial court jurisdiction transferred to the U.S. District Courts.

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 225 U.S.

Case Name Page and year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition of case Maryland v. West Virginia 1 (1912) per curiam none none original border set The Jason 32 (1912) Pitney none none 2d Cir. certification Valdes v. Central Altagracia, Inc.58 (1912) White none none D.P.R. affirmed Chase v. Wetzlar 79 (1912) White none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed Sexton v. Kessler and Company 90 (1912) Holmes none none 2d Cir. affirmed Southern Railway Company v. Burlington Lumber Company 99 (1912) Holmes none none N.C. reversed Ohio Railroad Commission v. Worthington 101 (1912) Day none none 6th Cir. affirmed Bigelow v. Old Dominion Copper Mining and Smelting Company 111 (1912) Lurton none none Mass. affirmed Stalker v. Oregon Short Line Railroad Company 142 (1912) Lurton none none Idaho affirmed Chicago and Alton Railroad Company v. Kirby 155 (1912) Lurton none none Ill. reversed Jordan v. Massachusetts167 (1912) Lurton none none Mass. Super. Ct. affirmed National Bank v. National Herkimer County Bank of Little Falls 178 (1912) Hughes none none 2d Cir. affirmed Anderson v. Pacific Coast Steamship Company 187 (1912) Hughes none none 9th Cir. certification United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company v. Bray 205 (1912) VanDevanter none none 4th Cir. affirmed United States v. Colorado Anthracite Company 219 (1912) VanDevanter none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Johannessen v. United States 227 (1912) Pitney none none N.D. Cal. affirmed R.J. Darnell (Inc.) v. Illinois Central Railroad Company 243 (1912) White none none C.C.W.D. Tenn. dismissed Creswill v. Knights of Pythias 246 (1912) White none Holmes Ga. reversed Norfolk and Suburban Turnpike Railroad Company v. Virginia 264 (1912) White none none Va. affirmed Mississippi Railroad Commission v. Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company 272 (1912) White none none C.C.D. Miss. affirmed Procter and Gamble Company v. United States 282 (1912) White none none Comm. Ct. remanded Hooker v. Knapp 302 (1912) White none none Comm. Ct. remanded United States v. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 306 (1912) White none none Comm. Ct. affirmed ICC v. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 326 (1912) McKenna none none Comm. Ct. reversed Hyde v. United States347 (1912) McKenna none Holmes D.C. Cir. affirmed Brown v. Elliott392 (1912) McKenna none Holmes C.C.N.D. Cal. affirmed Johnson v. United States 405 (1912) McKenna none none D.C. Cir. affirmed Glasgow v. Moyer 420 (1912) McKenna none none N.D. Ga. affirmed City of Louisville v. Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Company 430 (1912) Holmes none none C.C.W.D. Ky. reversed Messenger v. Anderson 436 (1912) Holmes none none 6th Cir. reversed Zeckendorf v. Steinfeld 445 (1912) Holmes none none 6th Cir. reversed Low Wah Suey v. Backus 460 (1912) Holmes none none 6th Cir. reversed Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company v. Duvall 477 (1912) Holmes none none 6th Cir. reversed D. Lupton's Sons Company v. Automobile Club of America 489 (1912) Hughes none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. reversed Savage v. Jones501 (1912) Hughes none none C.C.D. Ind. affirmed Standard Stock Food Company v. Wright 540 (1912) Hughes none none C.C.S.D. Iowa affirmed Clairmont v. United States 551 (1912) Hughes none none D. Mont. reversed Shulthis v. McDougal 561 (1912) VanDevanter none none 8th Cir. dismissed Eastern Cherokees v. United States 572 (1912) VanDevanter none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Kindred v. Union Pacific Railroad Company 582 (1912) VanDevanter none none 8th Cir. affirmed Flannelly v. Delaware and Hudson Company 597 (1912) VanDevanter none none 3d Cir. reversed Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company v. Wagner Electric and Manufacturing Company 604 (1912) Lamar none none 8th Cir. reversed Murphy v. California 623 (1912) Lamar none none Cal. Super. Ct. affirmed Henderson v. Mayer 631 (1912) Lamar none none 5th Cir. affirmed Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company v. United States 640 (1912) Lamar none none C.C.D. Kan. affirmed Pickford v. Talbott 651 (1912) Pitney none none D.C. Cir. affirmed Ex parte Webb 663 (1912) Pitney none none E.D. Okla. habeas corpus denied

Notes and references

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