This is a list of cases reported in volume 169 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1898.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 169 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 169 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) 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) Joseph McKenna Associate Justice California Stephen Johnson Field (Acclamation) –January 5, 1925(Retired)

Notable Cases in 169 U.S. Holden v. Hardy In Holden v. Hardy, 169 U.S. 366 (1898), the Supreme Court held that a limitation on working time for miners and smelters was constitutional. The decision stated that the Utah law was a legitimate exercise of the state's police power; that such a law is legitimate if there is indeed a rational basis, supported by facts, for the legislature to believe particular work conditions are dangerous.

United States v. Wong Kim Ark United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), is a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court held that "a child born in the United States, of parents of Chinese descent, who, at the time of his birth, are subjects of the Emperor of China, but have a permanent domicil and residence in the United States, and are there carrying on business, and are not employed in any diplomatic or official capacity under the Emperor of China", is a U.S. citizen. This is due to the first clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, 'All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.'" This decision established an important precedent in the interpretation of the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

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 169 U.S.

Case Name Page & year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition Stuart v. Hayden 1 (1898) Harlan none none 8th Cir. affirmed United States v. Passavant 16 (1898) Fuller none Brown 2d Cir. certification Hetzel v. Baltimore & O.R.R. Co. 26 (1898) Harlan none none D.C. Cir. reversed In re Boardman ex rel. Durrant 39 (1898) Fuller none none 9th Cir. habeas corpus denied Building & Loan Ass'n v. Price 45 (1898) Peckham none none C.C.N.D. Tex. reversed Williams v. Paine 55 (1898) Peckham none none D.C. Cir. affirmed Holder v. Aultman M. & Co. 81 (1898) Gray none none C.C.E.D. Mich. affirmed Powers v. Chesapeake & O. Ry. Co. 92 (1898) Gray none none C.C.D. Ky. affirmed Union M.L. Ins. Co. v. Kirchoff 103 (1898) Fuller none none Ill. dismissed Wetmore v. Rymer 115 (1898) Shiras none none C.C.E.D. Tenn. reversed Richardson v. Louisville & N.R.R. Co. 128 (1898) Fuller none none Fla. affirmed Chicago et al. Ry. Co. v. Solan 133 (1898) Gray none none Iowa affirmed Ritter v. Mutual L. Ins. Co. 139 (1898) Harlan none none 3d Cir. affirmed Benjamin v. City of New Orleans 161 (1898) Fuller none none 5th Cir. dismissed Cessna v. United States 165 (1898) Brewer none none Ct. Priv. Land Cl. affirmed Baker v. Cummings 189 (1898) White none none D.C. Cir. reversed United States v. Klumpp 209 (1898) Fuller none none 2d Cir. reversed Barrett v. United States I 218 (1898) Fuller none none C.C.D.S.C. affirmed Barrett v. United States II 231 (1898) Fuller none none W.D.S.C. affirmed Levis v. Kengla 234 (1898) Gray none none D.C. Cir. affirmed Wetzel v. Minnesota et al. Co. 237 (1898) Brown none none 8th Cir. affirmed Dull v. Blackman 243 (1898) Brewer none none Iowa affirmed United States v. City of Louisville 249 (1898) Peckham none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Logan County v. United States 255 (1898) Peckham none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Thomas v. Gay 264 (1898) Shiras none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Okla. reversed Baker v. Grice 284 (1898) Peckham none none C.C.N.D. Tex. reversed Willis v. Eastern T. & B. Co. 295 (1898) Gray none none D.C. Cir. reversed Richmond & A.R.R. Co. v. R.A. Patterson T. Co. 311 (1898) White none none Va. affirmed United States v. Garlinger 316 (1898) Shiras none none Ct. Cl. reversed Payne v. Robertson 323 (1898) White none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Okla. affirmed United States v. Eaton 331 (1898) White none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Beley v. Naphtaly 353 (1898) Peckham none none 9th Cir. affirmed Smith v. Naphtaly 365 (1898) Peckham none none 9th Cir. affirmed Holden v. Hardy 366 (1898) Brown none none Utah affirmed Smithsonian Inst. v. Meech 398 (1898) Brewer none none D.C. Cir. reversed Brown v. Marion Nat'l Bank 416 (1898) Harlan none none Ky. reversed Savings & L. Soc'y v. Multnomah Cnty. 421 (1898) Gray none none C.C.D. Or. affirmed Central Nat'l Bank v. Stevens 432 (1898) Shiras none none N.Y. reversed Smyth v. Ames 466 (1898) Harlan none none C.C.D. Neb. affirmed Merritt v. Bowdoin Coll. 551 (1898) Harlan none none C.C.N.D. Cal. dismissed Backus v. Fort St. U.D. Co. 557 (1898) Brewer none Harlan Mich. affirmed Wilson v. North Carolina 586 (1898) Peckham none none N.C. dismissed United States ex rel. Bernardin v. Butterworth 600 (1898) Shiras none none D.C. Cir. reversed McCormick H.M. Co. v. Aultman Co. 606 (1898) Brown none none 6th Cir. certification Missouri et al. Ry. Co. v. Haber 613 (1898) Harlan none Brewer Kan. affirmed Louisville & N.R.R. Co. v. Behlmer 644 (1898) Fuller none none 4th Cir. vacation denied United States v. Wong Kim Ark 649 (1898) Gray none Fuller C.C.N.D. Cal. affirmed

Notes and references

See also Certificate of division

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