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This is a list of the 64 cases reported in volume 226 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1912 and 1913.
Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 226 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).[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 226 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 |
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Edward Douglass White | Chief Justice | Louisiana | Melville Fuller | December 12, 1910 (Acclamation) |
December 19, 1910 – May 19, 1921 (Died) |
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Joseph McKenna | Associate Justice | California | Stephen Johnson Field | January 21, 1898 (Acclamation) |
January 26, 1898 – January 5, 1925 (Retired) |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | Associate Justice | Massachusetts | Horace Gray | December 4, 1902 (Acclamation) |
December 8, 1902 – January 12, 1932 (Retired) |
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William R. Day | Associate Justice | Ohio | George Shiras Jr. | February 23, 1903 (Acclamation) |
March 2, 1903 – November 13, 1922 (Retired) |
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Horace Harmon Lurton | Associate Justice | Tennessee | Rufus W. Peckham | December 20, 1909 (Acclamation) |
January 3, 1910 – July 12, 1914 (Died) |
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Charles Evans Hughes | Associate Justice | New York | David Josiah Brewer | May 2, 1910 (Acclamation) |
October 10, 1910 – June 10, 1916 (Resigned) |
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Willis Van Devanter | Associate Justice | Wyoming | Edward Douglass White (as Associate Justice) | December 15, 1910 (Acclamation) |
January 3, 1911 – June 2, 1937 (Retired) |
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Joseph Rucker Lamar | Associate Justice | Georgia | William Henry Moody | December 15, 1910 (Acclamation) |
January 3, 1911 – January 2, 1916 (Died) |
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Mahlon Pitney | Associate Justice | New Jersey | John Marshall Harlan | March 13, 1912 (50–26) |
March 18, 1912 – December 31, 1922 (Resigned) |
Notable Case in 226 U.S.
Standard Sanitary Mfg. Co. v. United States
In Standard Sanitary Mfg. Co. v. United States, 226 U.S. 20 (1912), also known as the Bathtub Trust case, the Supreme Court held unanimously that ownership of patent rights does not immunize the owner from the antitrust laws prohibiting combinations in unreasonable restraint of trade. The Court famously said that the Sherman Act "is its own measure of right and wrong, of what it permits or forbids, and the judgment of the courts cannot be set up against it in a supposed accommodation of its policy with the good intention of parties, and, it may be, of some good results." A commentary stated, "This decision has become the leading case on the subject of the relation of the patent law and Sherman law to each other."[2]
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.
On January 1, 1912, the effective date of the Judicial Code of 1911, the old Circuit Courts were abolished, with their remaining trial court jurisdiction transferred to the U.S. District Courts.
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
- "Ct. Com. Pl." = Court of Common Pleas (a state court)
- 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 226 U.S.
Case Name | Page & year | Opinion of the Court | Concurring opinion(s) | Dissenting opinion(s) | Lower Court | Disposition of case |
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Breese v. United States | 1 (1912) | Holmes | none | none | 4th Cir. | certified questions answered |
Harty v. Victoria | 12 (1912) | Holmes | none | none | Phil. | dismissed |
United States v. Baltimore & O.S. Ry. Co. | 14 (1912) | Holmes | none | none | Comm. Ct. | affirmed |
Standard Sanitary Mfg. Co. v. United States | 20 (1912) | McKenna | none | none | D. Md. | affirmed |
Smith v. Hitchcock | 53 (1912) | Holmes | none | none | D.C. Cir. | affirmed |
United States v. Union P.R.R. Co. | 61 (1912) | Day | none | none | C.C.D. Utah | reversed |
Louisiana Navigation Co., Ltd. v. Oyster Comm'n | 99 (1912) | White | none | none | La. | dismissed for want of jurisdiction |
Deming v. Carlisle Packing Co. | 102 (1912) | White | none | none | Wash. | dismissed |
First Nat'l Bank v. Littlefield | 110 (1912) | White | none | none | 2d Cir. | affirmed |
Selover, Bates & Co. v. Walsh | 112 (1912) | McKenna | none | none | Minn. | affirmed |
Taylor v. Columbian Univ. | 126 (1912) | McKenna | none | none | D.C. Cir. | affirmed |
Eubank v. City of Richmond | 137 (1912) | McKenna | none | none | Va. | reversed |
Burnet v. Desmornes y Alvarez | 145 (1912) | Holmes | none | none | P.R. | affirmed |
Jones v. Springer | 148 (1912) | Holmes | none | none | N.M. | affirmed |
Central Lumber Co v. South Dakota | 157 (1912) | Holmes | none | none | S.D. | affirmed |
Southwestern Brewery & Ice Co. v. Schmidt | 162 (1912) | Holmes | none | none | N.M. | affirmed |
Miller v. Guasti | 170 (1912) | Day | none | none | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | affirmed |
443 Cans of Egg Product v. United States | 172 (1912) | Day | none | none | 3d Cir. | reversed |
Toyota v. Hawaii | 184 (1912) | Hughes | none | none | Sup. Ct. Terr. Haw. | affirmed |
Purity Extract & Tonic Co. v. Lynch | 192 (1912) | Hughes | none | none | Miss. | affirmed |
Buck Stove & Range Co. v. Vickers | 205 (1912) | Van Devanter | none | none | Kan. | reversed |
Yazoo & M.V.R.R. Co. v. Jackson Vinegar Co. | 217 (1912) | Van Devanter | none | none | Miss. Cir. Ct. | affirmed |
German Alliance Ins. Co. v. Home Water Supply Co. | 220 (1912) | Lamar | none | none | 4th Cir. | affirmed |
Veve v. Sanchez | 234 (1912) | Lamar | none | none | D.P.R. | reversed |
Beach v. United States | 243 (1912) | Pitney | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
Rosenthal v. New York | 260 (1912) | Pitney | none | none | N.Y. Cnty. Ct. | affirmed |
Zakonaite v. Wolf | 272 (1912) | Pitney | none | none | E.D. Mo. | affirmed |
National Sur. Co. v. Architectural Decorating Co. | 276 (1912) | Pitney | none | none | Minn. | affirmed |
United States v. Union Stock Yard & Transit Co. | 286 (1912) | Day | none | none | Comm. Ct. | affirmed (#1); reversed (#2) |
Florida ex rel. Wailes v. Croom | 309 (1912) | White | none | none | Fla. | dismissed |
Robertson v. Gordon | 311 (1912) | Holmes | none | none | D.C. Cir. | reversed |
Murray v. City of Pocatello | 318 (1912) | Holmes | none | none | Idaho | affirmed |
United States v. Reading Co. | 324 (1912) | Lurton | none | none | C.C.E.D. Pa. | affirmed (part); reversed (part) |
McLean v. United States | 374 (1912) | McKenna | none | none | Ct. Cl. | reversed |
Wood v. Wilbert's Sons S. & L. Co. | 384 (1912) | McKenna | none | none | E.D. La. | affirmed |
Darnell v. Indiana | 390 (1912) | Holmes | none | none | Ind. | affirmed |
Keatley v. Furey | 399 (1912) | Holmes | none | none | C.C.N.D. Ill. | dismissed |
Williams v. City of Talladega | 404 (1912) | Day | none | none | Ala. | reversed |
Ex parte United States | 420 (1913) | White | none | none | E.D. Mo. | prohibition granted |
Chicago, R.I. & P. Ry. Co. v. Hardwick Elevator Co. | 426 (1913) | White | none | none | Minn. | reversed |
Hannum v. United States | 436 (1913) | White | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
Anderson v. Smith | 439 (1913) | White | none | none | D.C. Cir. | affirmed |
Illinois C.R.R. Co. v. Henderson Elevator Co. | 441 (1913) | White | none | none | Ky. | reversed |
Preston v. City of Chicago | 447 (1913) | White | none | none | Ill. | dismissed for want of jurisdiction |
Illinois ex rel. Gersch v. City of Chicago | 451 (1913) | White | none | none | Ill. | dismissed for want of jurisdiction |
Ubeda v. Zialcita | 452 (1913) | Holmes | none | none | Phil. | affirmed |
Pittsburg Steel Co. v. Baltimore Equitable Soc'y | 455 (1913) | Holmes | none | none | Md. | affirmed |
Marshall Dental Mfg. Co. v. Iowa | 460 (1913) | Holmes | none | none | Iowa | affirmed |
Kalanianaole v. Smithies | 462 (1913) | Holmes | none | none | Sup. Ct. Terr. Haw. | affirmed |
Ewing v. City of Leavenworth | 464 (1913) | Day | none | none | Kan. | affirmed |
United States v. Union Pacific R.R. Co. | 470 (1913) | Day | none | none | D. Utah | decree below rejected |
Wheeler v. United States | 478 (1913) | Day | none | none | D. Mass. | affirmed |
Adams Express Co. v. Croninger | 491 (1913) | Lurton | none | none | Ky. Cir. Ct. | reversed |
Chicago, B. & Q. Ry. Co. v. Miller | 513 (1913) | Lurton | none | none | Neb. | reversed |
Chicago, S.P.M. & O. Ry. Co. v. Latta | 519 (1913) | Lurton | none | none | 8th Cir. | reversed |
McNamara v. Henkel | 520 (1913) | Hughes | none | none | S.D.N.Y. | affirmed |
United States v. Patten | 525 (1913) | Van Devanter | none | Lurton | C.C.S.D.N.Y. | reversed |
Plumley v. United States | 545 (1913) | Lamar | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
Bunker Hill & Sullivan M. Co. v. United States | 548 (1913) | Lamar | none | none | 9th Cir. | affirmed |
Thompson v. Thompson | 551 (1913) | Pitney | none | none | D.C. Cir. | affirmed |
Evans v. United States | 567 (1913) | Pitney | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
Missouri, K. & T. Ry. Co. v. Wulf | 570 (1913) | Pitney | none | none | 5th Cir. | affirmed |
Schmidinger v. City of Chicago | 578 (1913) | Day | none | none | Ill. | affirmed |
El Paso & S.R.R. Co. v. Eichel | 590 (1913) | Pitney | none | none | Tex. Ct. App. | dismissed for want of jurisdiction |
Notes and references
- ^ "Supreme Court Research Guide". Georgetown Law Library. Retrieved April 7, 2021.
- ^ Edwin P. Grosvenor, "The Rule of Reason as Applied by the United States Supreme Court of Commerce in Patented Articles", 17 Colum. L. Rev. 208, 213 (1917).
External links
- [1] Case reports in volume 226 from Library of Congress
- [2] Case reports in volume 226 from Court Listener
- [3] Case reports in volume 226 from the Caselaw Access Project of Harvard Law School
- [4] Case reports in volume 226 from Google Scholar
- [5] Case reports in volume 226 from Justia
- [6] Case reports in volume 226 from Open Jurist
- Website of the United States Supreme Court
- United States Courts website about the Supreme Court
- National Archives, Records of the Supreme Court of the United States
- American Bar Association, How Does the Supreme Court Work?
- The Supreme Court Historical Society
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