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List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 214

Coordinates: 38°53′26″N 77°00′16″W / 38.89056°N 77.00444°W / 38.89056; -77.00444
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Supreme Court of the United States
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38°53′26″N 77°00′16″W / 38.89056°N 77.00444°W / 38.89056; -77.00444
EstablishedMarch 4, 1789; 235 years ago (1789-03-04)<
LocationWashington, D.C.
Coordinates38°53′26″N 77°00′16″W / 38.89056°N 77.00444°W / 38.89056; -77.00444
Composition methodPresidential nomination with Senate confirmation
Authorized byConstitution of the United States, Art. III, § 1
Judge term lengthlife tenure, subject to impeachment and removal
Number of positions9 (by statute)
Websitesupremecourt.gov

This is a list of cases reported in volume 214 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1909.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 214 U.S.

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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).[1] 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 214 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 July 20, 1888
(41–20)
October 8, 1888

July 4, 1910
(Died)
John Marshall Harlan Associate Justice Kentucky David Davis November 29, 1877
(Acclamation)
December 10, 1877

October 14, 1911
(Died)
David Josiah Brewer Associate Justice Kansas Stanley Matthews December 18, 1889
(53–11)
January 6, 1890

March 28, 1910
(Died)
Edward Douglass White Associate Justice Louisiana Samuel Blatchford February 19, 1894
(Acclamation)
March 12, 1894

December 18, 1910
(Continued as chief justice)
Rufus W. Peckham Associate Justice New York Howell Edmunds Jackson December 9, 1895
(Acclamation)
January 6, 1896

October 24, 1909
(Died)
Joseph McKenna Associate Justice California Stephen Johnson Field January 21, 1898
(Acclamation)
January 26, 1898

January 5, 1925
(Retired)
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Associate Justice Massachusetts Horace Gray December 4, 1902
(Acclamation)
December 8, 1902

January 12, 1932
(Retired)
William R. Day Associate Justice Ohio George Shiras Jr. February 23, 1903
(Acclamation)
March 2, 1903

November 13, 1922
(Retired)
William Henry Moody Associate Justice Massachusetts Henry Billings Brown December 12, 1906
(Acclamation)
December 17, 1906

November 20, 1910
(Retired)

Citation style

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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.

List of cases in volume 214 U.S.

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Case Name Page & year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition
Compton v. Alabama 1 (1909) Harlan none none Ala. affirmed
In re Riggs 9 (1909) Brewer none none S.D.N.Y. mandamus denied
Whitcomb v. White 15 (1909) Brewer none none Idaho affirmed
Smithsonian Inst. v. St. John 19 (1909) Brewer none none N.Y. Sup. Ct. dismissed
Merchants' Nat'l Bank v. United States 33 (1909) White none none Ct. Cl. affirmed
J.M. Ceballos & Co. v. United States 47 (1909) White none none Ct. Cl. reversed
Goodrich v. Ferris 71 (1909) White none none C.C.N.D. Cal. dismissed
Woodwell v. United States 82 (1909) White none none Ct. Cl. affirmed
Welch v. Swasey 91 (1909) Peckham none none Mass. affirmed
Gray v. Noholoa 108 (1909) Peckham none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Haw. affirmed
Collins v. O'Neil 113 (1909) Peckham none none multiple affirmed
United States ex rel. Parish v. MacVeagh 124 (1909) McKenna none none D.C. Cir. reversed
District of Columbia v. Brooke 138 (1909) McKenna none none D.C. Cir. reversed
Texas & P.R.R. Co. v. Eastin 153 (1909) McKenna none none Tex. affirmed
Dupree v. Mansur 161 (1909) Holmes none none 5th Cir. reversed
Ubarri v. Laborde 168 (1909) Holmes none none D.P.R. reversed
Laborde v. Ubarri 173 (1909) Holmes none none D.P.R. affirmed
Leech v. Louisiana 175 (1909) Holmes none none La. affirmed
City of Des Moines v. Des Moines C.R.R. Co. 179 (1909) Holmes none none C.C.S.D. Iowa reversed
Peck v. Tribune Co. 185 (1909) Holmes none none 7th Cir. reversed
Chesapeake & O.R.R. Co. v. McDonald 191 (1909) Day none none Ky. dismissed
Rogers v. Jones 196 (1909) Fuller none none Miss. dismissed
Washington v. Oregon 205 (1909) Brewer none none original rehearing denied
Adams E. Co. v. Kentucky 218 (1909) Brewer none none Ky. Cir. Ct. reversed
Cabrera v. American C. Bank 224 (1909) McKenna none none D.P.R. affirmed
Bong v. Alfred S.C.A. Co. 236 (1909) McKenna none none 2d Cir. affirmed
Kreigh v. Westinghouse et al. Co. 249 (1909) Day none none 8th Cir. reversed
Santiago v. Nogueras 260 (1909) Moody none none D.P.R. affirmed
Tupiño v. La Compania Gen. 268 (1909) Moody none none Phil. dismissed
Western Union T. Co. v. Chiles 274 (1909) Moody none none Va. reversed
Bryant v. Swofford Bros. D.G. Co. 279 (1909) Moody none none 8th Cir. affirmed
J. Wild & Co. v. Provident L. & T. Co. 292 (1909) Moody none none 3d Cir. reversed
Southern R.R. Co. v. St. Louis H. & G. Co. 297 (1909) Brewer none none 7th Cir. reversed
United States v. National E. Bank 302 (1909) White none none 1st Cir. reversed
Oceanic S.N. Co. v. Stranahan 320 (1909) White none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed
International M.M. Co. v. Stranahan 344 (1909) White none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed
Weems S.B. Co. v. People's S.B. Co. 345 (1909) Peckham none none 4th Cir. reversed
English v. Arizona ex rel. Griffith 359 (1909) McKenna none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Ariz. affirmed
Expanded M. Co. v. Bradford 366 (1909) Day none none multiple multiple
United States v. Shipp 386 (1909) Fuller none Peckham original contempt found
Chicago et al. R.R. Co. v. Williams 492 (1909) per curiam none Holmes 8th Cir. dismissed

Notes and references

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  1. ^ "Supreme Court Research Guide". Georgetown Law Library. Retrieved April 7, 2021.

See also

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