List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 72

This is a list of cases reported in volume 72 (5 Wall.) of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States from 1865 to 1867.Anne Ashmore, DATES OF SUPREME COURT DECISIONS AND ARGUMENTS, Library, Supreme Court of the United States, 26 December 2018.

Nominative reports In 1874, the U.S. government created the United States Reports, and retroactively numbered older privately published case reports as part of the new series. As a result, cases appearing in volumes 1–90 of U.S. Reports have dual citation forms; one for the volume number of U.S. Reports, and one for the volume number of the reports named for the relevant reporter of decisions (these are called "nominative reports").

John William Wallace Starting with the 66th volume of U.S. Reports, the Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States was John William Wallace. Wallace was Reporter of Decisions from 1863 to 1874, covering volumes 68 through 90 of United States Reports which correspond to volumes 1 through 23 of his Wallace's Reports. As such, the dual form of citation to, for example, Christmas v. Russell is 72 U.S. (5 Wall.) 290 (1866).

Wallace's Reports were the final nominative reports for the US Supreme Court; starting with volume 91, cases were identified simply as "(volume #) U.S. (page #) (year)".

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of 72 U.S. (5 Wall.)

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 72 U.S. (5 Wall.) were decided the Court comprised these nine members:

Portrait Justice Office Home State Succeeded Date confirmed by the Senate(Vote) Tenure on Supreme Court Salmon P. Chase Chief Justice Ohio Roger B. Taney (Acclamation) –May 7, 1873(Died) James Moore Wayne Associate Justice Georgia William Johnson (Acclamation) –July 5, 1867(Died) Samuel Nelson Associate Justice New York Smith Thompson (Acclamation) –November 28, 1872(Retired) Robert Cooper Grier Associate Justice Pennsylvania Henry Baldwin (Acclamation) –January 31, 1870(Retired) Nathan Clifford Associate Justice Maine Benjamin Robbins Curtis (26–23) –July 25, 1881(Died) Noah Haynes Swayne Associate Justice Ohio John McLean (38–1) –January 24, 1881(Retired) Samuel Freeman Miller Associate Justice Iowa Peter Vivian Daniel (Acclamation) –October 13, 1890(Died) David Davis Associate Justice Illinois John Archibald Campbell (Acclamation) –March 4, 1877(Resigned) Stephen Johnson Field Associate Justice California newly created seat (Acclamation) –December 1, 1897(Retired)

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.

Bluebook citation style is used for case names, citations, and jurisdictions. "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 72 U.S. (5 Wall.)

Case Name Page & year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition The Springbok 1 (1867) Chase none none S.D.N.Y. multiple The Peterhoff 28 (1867) Chase none none S.D.N.Y. reversed United States v. Weed 62 (1867) Miller none none E.D. La. affirmed Watson v. Sutherland 74 (1867) Davis none none C.C.D. Md. affirmed Parmelee v. Simpson 81 (1867) Davis none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Neb. reversed Woodworth v. Corn E. Ins. Co. 87 (1867) Miller none none N.D. Ill. affirmed Illinois C.R.R. Co. v. Barron 90 (1867) Nelson none none C.C.N.D. Ill. affirmed Hadden v. Collector 107 (1867) Field none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed Shelton v. Collector 113 (1867) Swayne none none C.C.D. Mass. affirmed Stanley v. Colt 119 (1867) Nelson none none C.C.D. Conn. affirmed The Dashing Wave 170 (1867) Chase none none E.D. La. affirmed The Science 178 (1867) Chase none none E.D. La. affirmed The Volant 179 (1867) Chase none none E.D. La. reversed The Teresita 180 (1867) Chase none none E.D. La. affirmed The Jenny 183 (1867) Chase none none E.D. La. reversed Ex parte Milwaukee R.R. Co. 188 (1867) Miller none none C.C.D. Wis. supersedeas granted Barton v. Forsyth 190 (1867) Clifford none none C.C.N.D. Ill. dismissed Campbell v. City of Kenosha 194 (1867) Davis none none C.C.D. Wis. reversed Myers v. Fenn 205 (1867) Nelson none none C.C.N.D. Ill. affirmed Seaver v. Bigelows 208 (1867) Nelson none none C.C.N.D. Ill. dismissed United States v. Repentigny 211 (1867) Nelson none none D. Mich. reversed Croxall v. Shererd 268 (1867) Swayne Miller none C.C.D.N.J. affirmed Christmas v. Russell 290 (1866) Clifford none none C.C.S.D. Miss. affirmed Green v. Van Buskirk 307 (1867) Miller none Nelson N.Y. Sup. Ct. dismissal denied Dwyer v. Dunbar 318 (1867) Swayne none none E.D. Tex. affirmed Townsend v. Greeley 326 (1867) Field none none Cal. affirmed Townsend v. Burbank 337 (1867) Chase none none Cal. affirmed Francis v. United States 338 (1867) Grier none none C.C.D. Mo. affirmed The Gray Jacket I 342 (1867) Swayne none none E.D. La. affirmed The Gray Jacket II 370 (1867) Chase none none E.D. La. argument granted The Hampton 372 (1867) Miller none none Sup. Ct. D.C. affirmed The William Bagaley 377 (1867) Clifford none none E.D. La. affirmed Ewing v. City of St. Louis 413 (1867) Field none none C.C.D. Mo. affirmed De Groot v. United States 419 (1867) Miller none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Nichols v. Levy 433 (1867) Swayne none none C.C.M.D. Tenn. reversed United States v. Armijo 444 (1867) Field none none N.D. Cal. affirmed Serrano v. United States 451 (1867) Davis none none D. Cal. reversed License Tax Cases 462 (1867) Chase none none multiple revenue statues upheld Pervear v. Massachusetts 475 (1867) Chase none none Mass. affirmed The Eddy 481 (1867) Clifford none none C.C.D.S.C. affirmed Hansbrough v. Peck 497 (1867) Nelson none none C.C.N.D. Ill. affirmed Howard Ins. Co. v. Chase 509 (1867) Davis none none C.C.D. Me. affirmed The Sir William Peel 517 (1867) Chase none none E.D. La. affirmed United States v. Pico 536 (1867) Field none none D. Cal. affirmed Merchants' Ins. Co. v. Ritchie 541 (1867) Chase none none C.C.D. Mass. dismissed The Bird of Paradise 545 (1867) Clifford none none C.C.N.D. Cal. reversed United States v. Commissioner 563 (1867) Nelson none none Sup. Ct. D.C. affirmed Goodrich v. City of Chicago 566 (1867) Swayne none none N.D. Ill. affirmed The Pearl 574 (1867) Chase none none S.D. Fla. ship & cargo condemned Jones v. La Vallette 579 (1867) Chase none none C.C.E.D. La. dismissed Washington S. Packet Co. v. Sickles 580 (1867) Nelson none Miller Sup. Ct. D.C. reversed De Haro v. United States 599 (1867) Davis none none N.D. Cal. affirmed The Sea Lion 630 (1867) Swayne none Grier S.D. Fla. affirmed United States v. MacDonald 647 (1867) Clifford none none C.C.D. Me. affirmed Milwaukee & M.R.R. Co. v. Soutter 660 (1867) Miller none none C.C.D. Wis. reversed Thompson v. Riggs 663 (1867) Clifford none none Sup. Ct. D.C. affirmed Wolcott v. Des Moines Co. 681 (1867) Nelson none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed Nash v. Towne 689 (1867) Clifford none none C.C.D. Wis. affirmed City of Galena v. Amy 705 (1867) Swayne none none C.C.N.D. Ill. affirmed Bates v. Brown 710 (1867) Swayne none none C.C.N.D. Ill. affirmed City of Philadelphia v. Collector 720 (1867) Clifford none none C.C.E.D. Pa. affirmed Kansas Indians Cases 737 (1867) Davis none none Kan. reversed New York Indians 761 (1867) Nelson none none N.Y. reversed Marshall County v. Schenck 772 (1867) Clifford none none C.C.N.D. Ill. affirmed Kelly v. Crawford 785 (1867) Field none none C.C.N.D. Ill. affirmed O'Neal v. Kirkpatrick 791 (1867) Nelson none none C.C.D. Cal. affirmed Deery v. Cray 795 (1867) Miller none none C.C.D. Md. reversed Lee v. Dodge 808 (1865) Miller none none C.C.N.D. Ill. reversed Withenbury v. United States 819 (1867) Chase none none S.D. Ill. dismissal denied Seymour v. Freer 822 (1867) Chase none none C.C.N.D. Ill. dismissal denied Garrison v. Cass County 823 (1867) Chase none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Neb. dismissed Alviso v. United States 824 (1867) Chase none none N.D. Cal. dismissed German v. United States 825 (1867) Chase none none S.D. Cal. dismissed Ex parte Milwaukee R.R. Co. 825 (1867) Miller none none C.C.D. Wis. mandamus granted Higueras v. United States 827 (1865) Clifford none none N.D. Cal. affirmed

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