List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 203

This is a list of cases reported in volume 203 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1906.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 203 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 203 were decided the Court comprised the following eight members (Justice William Henry Moody did not join the Court until after all of the cases in volume 203 had been argued):

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) David Josiah Brewer Associate Justice Kansas Stanley Matthews (53–11) –March 28, 1910(Died) 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) 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)

Notable Cases in 203 U.S. Hodges v. United States Hodges v. United States, 203 U.S. 1 (1906), is a decision by the Supreme Court limiting the power of Congress to make laws under the Thirteenth Amendment. Three white men had been convicted of conspiring against black sawmill workers. The statute that was used to convict the men prohibited conspiracy to deprive American citizens of their constitutional liberties, including the right to make contracts. The Supreme Court overturned the conviction, holding that Congress did not have the right to intervene against racially motivated interference with labor contracts.

Northwestern Nat. Life Ins. Co. v. Riggs Northwestern Nat. Life Ins. Co. v. Riggs, 203 U.S. 243 (1906), is a Supreme Court decision dealing with the power of individual states to regulate how corporations may conduct business. The Court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment was not a bar to many state laws that effectively limited a corporation's right to contract business, so long as such limits were not unreasonable constraints on trade and due process for resolving conflicts and disputes existed.

United States v. Shipp In United States v. Shipp, 203 U.S. 563 (1906), the Supreme Court ruled that Tennessee Sheriff Joseph F. Shipp and five others, had "in effect aided and abetted" the lynching of Ed Johnson, despite their knowing that Johnson's appeal of his conviction was pending in the Supreme Court. After trial in the Supreme Court they were held in contempt of court and sentenced to imprisonment. When Shipp was released, he was welcomed back to Tennessee as a hero.

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 203 U.S.

Case Name Page & year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition Hodges v. United States 1 (1906) Brewer none Harlan E.D. Ark. reversed New Mexico ex rel. McLean Co. v. Denver et al. R.R. Co. 38 (1906) Day none none Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M. affirmed Landram v. Jordan 56 (1906) Holmes none none D.C. Cir. affirmed Fidelity M.L. Ins. Co. v. Clark 64 (1906) Holmes none none C.C.N.D. Tex. affirmed Cherokee Intermarriage Cases 76 (1906) Fuller none none Ct. Cl. affirmed In re Moran 96 (1906) Holmes none none Dist. Ct. Terr. Okla. habeas corpus denied Northern A. Co. v. Grand V.B. Ass'n 106 (1906) Holmes none none Neb. affirmed Covington & C.B. Co v. Hager 109 (1906) Day none none C.C.E.D. Ky. affirmed Wicomico Cnty. v. Bancroft 112 (1906) Day none none 4th Cir. reversed Taylor v. Burns 120 (1906) Brewer none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Ariz. affirmed Andrews v. Eastern O.L. Co. 127 (1906) Brewer none none Or. affirmed Burt v. Smith 129 (1906) Holmes none none N.Y. dismissed United States v. G. Riggs Co. 136 (1906) Holmes none none 2d Cir. reversed Conboy v. First Nat'l Bank 141 (1906) Fuller none none 2d Cir. dismissed Goudy v. Meath 146 (1906) Brewer none none Wash. affirmed United A.M. v. State Council 151 (1906) Holmes none none Va. affirmed Clark v. Wells174 (1906) Day none none C.C.D. Mont. affirmed Fisher v. Baker174 (1906) Fuller none none Phil. dismissed St Mary's et al. Co. v. West Virginia 183 (1906) Fuller none none W. Va. affirmed Pettibone v. Nichols192 (1906) Harlan none McKenna C.C.D. Idaho affirmed Moyer v. Nichols 221 (1906) Harlan none McKenna C.C.D. Idaho affirmed Appleyard v. Massachusetts 222 (1906) Harlan none none C.C.D. Mass. affirmed Francis v. Francis 233 (1906) Harlan none none Mich. affirmed Northwestern N.L. Ins. Co. v. Riggs 243 (1906) Harlan none none C.C.W.D. Mo. affirmed Atlantic et al. R.R. Co. v. Florida ex rel. Ellis 256 (1906) Brewer none none Fla. affirmed Seaboard et al. Ry. v. Florida ex rel. Ellis 261 (1906) Brewer none none Fla. affirmed Heyman v. Southern Ry. Co. 270 (1906) White none none Ga. reversed C.H. Nichols L. Co. v. Franson278 (1906) White none none C.C.W.D. Wash. affirmed Martin v. Pittsburgh et al. R.R. Co. 284 (1906) White none none Ohio affirmed Nat'l L.S. Bank v. First Nat'l Bank 296 (1906) Peckham none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Okla. affirmed Mercantile T. & D. Co. v. City of Columbus 311 (1906) Peckham none none C.C.N.D. Ga. reversed Security T. & S.V. Co. v. City of Lexington 323 (1906) Peckham none none Ky. affirmed Mississippi R.R. Comm'n v. Illinois C.R.R. Co. 335 (1906) Peckham none none 5th Cir. affirmed Allen v. Riley 347 (1906) Peckham none none Kan. affirmed J. Woods & Sons v. Carl 358 (1906) Peckham none none Ark. affirmed City of Monterey v. Jacks 360 (1906) McKenna none none Cal. affirmed International T. Co. v. Weeks 364 (1906) McKenna none none 1st Cir. affirmed Cruit v. Owen 368 (1906) McKenna none none D.C. Cir. affirmed Offield v. New York et al. R.R. Co. 372 (1906) McKenna none none Conn. affirmed Fair Haven & W.R.R. Co. v. City of New Haven 379 (1906) McKenna none none Conn. affirmed Chattanooga F. & P. Works v. City of Atlanta 390 (1906) Holmes none none 6th Cir. affirmed Guy v. Donald 399 (1906) Holmes none none 4th Cir. certification United States v. Dalcour 408 (1906) Holmes none none S.D. Fla. reversed New York Foundling Hosp. v. Gatti 429 (1906) Day none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Ariz. dismissed Crane v. Buckley 441 (1906) Day none none 9th Cir. affirmed Ex Parte Wisner 449 (1906) Fuller none none C.C.E.D. Mo. mandamus granted United States ex rel. Taylor v. Taft 461 (1906) Fuller none none D.C. Cir. dismissed Gila Valley G.N. Ry. Co. v. Lyon 465 (1906) Peckham none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Ariz. affirmed United States ex rel. Lowry v. Allen 476 (1906) McKenna none none D.C. Cir. affirmed New Jersey v. Anderson 483 (1906) Day none Harlan 7th Cir. reversed Alabama & v. Ry. Co. v. Railroad Comm'n 496 (1906) Brewer none none Miss. affirmed F. Grant S. Co. v. W.M. Laird Co. 502 (1906) White none none W.D.N.Y. dismissed Western Union T. Co. v. Hughes505 (1906) White none none Va. dismissed Rearick v. Pennsylvania 507 (1906) Holmes none none Pa. Super. Ct. reversed Illinois C.R.R. Co. v. McKendree 514 (1906) Day none none Ky. Cir. Ct. reversed Gatewood v. North Carolina 531 (1906) White none none N.C. affirmed Cahen v. Brewster 543 (1906) McKenna none none La. affirmed Methodist E.C. v. Illinois 553 (1906) McKenna none none Ill. affirmed United States v. Shipp 563 (1906) Holmes none none original trial for contempt

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