This is a list of cases reported in volume 165 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1897.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 165 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 165 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 (41–20) –July 4, 1910(Died) Stephen Johnson Field Associate Justice California newly created seat (Acclamation)–December 1, 1897(Retired) John Marshall Harlan Associate Justice Kentucky David Davis (Acclamation) –October 14, 1911(Died) Horace Gray Associate Justice Massachusetts Nathan Clifford (51–5) –September 15, 1902(Died) David Josiah Brewer Associate Justice Kansas Stanley Matthews (53–11) –March 28, 1910(Died) Henry Billings Brown Associate Justice Michigan Samuel Freeman Miller (Acclamation) –May 28, 1906(Retired) George Shiras Jr. Associate Justice Pennsylvania Joseph P. Bradley (Acclamation) –February 23, 1903(Retired) Edward Douglass White Associate Justice Louisiana Samuel Blatchford (Acclamation) –December 18, 1910(Continued as chief justice) Rufus W. Peckham Associate Justice New York Howell Edmunds Jackson (Acclamation) –October 24, 1909(Died)

Notable Case in 165 U.S. Allgeyer v. Louisiana Allgeyer v. Louisiana, 165 U.S. 578 (1897), was a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana statute for violating an individual's liberty of contract. It was the first case in which the Court interpreted the word liberty in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to mean "economic liberty". The decision was the beginning of the Lochner eraSee . during which the Supreme Court struck many state regulations for infringing on an individual's right to contract. The Lochner era lasted 40 years and ended with West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish in 1937.

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.

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 165 U.S.

Case Name Page and year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition St. Louis–San Francisco Railway Company v. Mathews1 (1897) Gray none none Mo. affirmed Missouri Pacific Railroad Company v. Simmons27 (1897) Gray none none Mo. affirmed Warner Valley Stock Company v. Smith28 (1897) Gray none none D.C. Cir. reversed Agnew v. United States36 (1897) Fuller none none C.C.S.D. Fla. affirmed Scott v. Donald I58 (1897) Shiras none Brown C.C.D.S.C. affirmed Scott v. Donald II107 (1897) Shiras none none C.C.D.S.C. affirmed Missouri v. Iowa118 (1897) Fuller none none original boundary set Hussman v. Durham144 (1897) Brewer none none Iowa affirmed Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Company v. Ellis150 (1897) Brewer none Gray Tex. reversed Clarke v. McDade168 (1897) Peckham none none Cal. Super. Ct. dismissed United States v. Barnette174 (1897) Gray none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Jones v. Brim180 (1897) White none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Utah affirmed Addington v. United States184 (1897) Harlan none none C.C.E.D. Tex. affirmed Egan v. Hart188 (1897) White none none La. dismissed Adams Express Company v. Ohio194 (1897) Fuller none White 6th Cir. affirmed American Express Company v. Indiana255 (1897) Fuller none White Ind. Cir. Ct. affirmed Rosecrans v. United States257 (1897) Brewer none none C.C.D. Mont. affirmed The Valencia264 (1897) Harlan none none 2d Cir. certification Pim v. City of St. Louis273 (1897) Harlan none none Mo. dismissed Robertson v. Baldwin275 (1897) Brown none Harlan C.C.N.D. Cal. affirmed Western Union Telegraph Company v. Indiana304 (1897) Fuller none none Ind. affirmed Price v. United States311 (1897) Peckham none none C.C.N.D. Cal. affirmed United States v. Gorham316 (1897) Peckham none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Graves v. United States323 (1897) Peckham none none C.C.N.D. Iowa reversed District of Columbia v. Johnson330 (1897) Peckham none none Ct. Cl. reversed District of Columbia v. Hall340 (1897) Peckham none none D.C. Cir. reversed District of Columbia v. Dickson341 (1897) Peckham none none Ct. Cl. reversed Hopkins v. Grimshaw342 (1897) Gray none none Sup. Ct. D.C. reversed Robinson v. Caldwell359 (1897) Harlan none none C.C.D. Idaho dismissed Oakes v. Mase363 (1897) White none none 8th Cir. reversed Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company v. Ohio365 (1897) White none none Ohio affirmed Burlington Gaslight Company v. Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway Company370 (1897) Brewer none none Iowa affirmed Davis v. United States373 (1897) Brewer none none C.C.W.D. Ark. affirmed Germania Iron Company v. United States379 (1897) Brewer none none 8th Cir. affirmed Deweese v. Reinhard386 (1897) Brewer none none 8th Cir. affirmed Glover v. Patten394 (1897) Brown none none D.C. Cir. affirmed Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company v. Mingus413 (1897) Brown none none Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M. affirmed In re Chetwood443 (1897) Fuller none none C.C.N.D. Cal. certiorari granted United States v. Winona and St. Peter Railroad Company463 (1897) Brewer none none 8th Cir. affirmed United States v. Union Pacific Railroad Company482 (1897) Brewer none none 8th Cir. affirmed Winona and St. Peter Railroad Company v. United States483 (1897) Brewer none none 8th Cir. affirmed Dunlop v. United States486 (1897) Brown none none C.C.N.D. Ill. affirmed United States v. McMillan504 (1897) Gray none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Utah reversed Smith v. Vulcan Iron Works518 (1897) Gray none none 9th Cir. dismissed In re Kollock526 (1897) Fuller none none D.C. Cir. habeas corpus denied McCormick v. Market National Bank538 (1897) Gray none none Ill. affirmed Swaim v. United States553 (1897) Shiras none none Ct. Cl. affirmed De Vaughn v. Hutchinson566 (1897) Shiras none none D.C. Cir. affirmed Allgeyer v. Louisiana578 (1897) Peckham none none La. reversed Walker v. New Mexico and Southern Pacific Railroad Company593 (1897) Brewer none none Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M. affirmed Pauly v. State Loan and Trust Company606 (1897) Harlan none none 9th Cir. affirmed Wade v. Lawder624 (1897) Fuller none none Mo. dismissed New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company v. New York628 (1897) Harlan none none N.Y. Sup. Ct. affirmed Fourth St. National Bank v. Yardley634 (1897) White none none 3d Cir. certification Walker v. Brown654 (1897) White none none 8th Cir. reversed United States v. City of Santa Fe675 (1897) White none none Ct. Priv. Land Cl. reversed

Notes and references

See also Certificate of division

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