This is a list of cases reported in volume 180 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1901.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 180 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 180 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 Weston Fuller Chief Justice 1908.jpg Melville Fuller Chief Justice Illinois Morrison Waite July 20, 1888
(41–20)
October 8, 1888

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

October 14, 1911
(Died)
Horacegrayphoto.jpg Horace Gray Associate Justice Massachusetts Nathan Clifford December 20, 1881
(51–5)
January 9, 1882

September 15, 1902
(Died)
DavidBrewer.jpg David Josiah Brewer Associate Justice Kansas Stanley Matthews December 18, 1889
(53–11)
January 6, 1890

March 28, 1910
(Died)
Portrait of Henry Billings Brown.jpg Henry Billings Brown Associate Justice Michigan Samuel Freeman Miller December 29, 1890
(Acclamation)
January 5, 1891

May 28, 1906
(Retired)
George Shiras Jr.jpg George Shiras Jr. Associate Justice Pennsylvania Joseph P. Bradley July 26, 1892
(Acclamation)
October 10, 1892

February 23, 1903
(Retired)
Edward White, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left, 1905.jpg Edward Douglass White Associate Justice Louisiana Samuel Blatchford February 19, 1894
(Acclamation)
March 12, 1894

December 18, 1910
(Continued as chief justice)
Rufus Wheeler Peckham cph.3b30513.jpg 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)

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.

List of cases in volume 180 U.S.

Case Name Page & year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition
Yazoo & M.V.R.R. v. Adams I 1 (1901) Brown none none Miss. affirmed
Yazoo & M.V.R.R. v. Adams II 26 (1901) Brown none none Miss. affirmed
Ill. C.R.R. v. Adams 28 (1901) Brown none none C.C.S.D. Miss. reversed
Yazoo & M.V.R.R. v. Adams III 41 (1901) Brown none none Miss. dismissed
Queen of the Pacific 49 (1901) Brown none none 9th Cir. reversed
Bradshaw v. Ashley 59 (1901) Peckham none none D.C. Cir. affirmed
Thompson v. Los Angeles F. & M. Co. 72 (1901) McKenna none none Cal. affirmed
Gusman v. Marrero 81 (1901) McKenna none none C.C.E.D. La. affirmed
Turner v. Richardson 87 (1901) McKenna none none La. affirmed
District of Columbia v. Robinson 92 (1901) McKenna none none D.C. Cir. affirmed
Neely v. Henkel 109 (1901) Harlan none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed
Dooley v. Pease 126 (1901) Shiras none none 7th Cir. affirmed
Liverpool et al. Co. v. Kearney 132 (1901) Harlan none none 8th Cir. affirmed
Hewitt v. Schultz 139 (1901) Harlan none Brewer N.D. reversed
Moore v. Cormode 167 (1901) Harlan none none Wash. affirmed
Powers v. Slaght 173 (1901) Harlan none none Wash. affirmed
Moore v. Stone 180 (1901) Harlan none none Wash. affirmed
City of New Orleans v. Fisher 185 (1901) Fuller none none 5th Cir. affirmed
City of New Orleans v. Warner 199 (1901) Brown none none 5th Cir. affirmed
Missouri v. Illinois 208 (1901) Shiras none Fuller original demurrers overruled
In re District of Columbia 250 (1901) Fuller none none Ct. Cl. affirmed
Ansley v. Ainsworth 253 (1901) Fuller none none D. Ct. Indian Terr. dismissed
Montoya v. United States 261 (1901) Brown none none Ct. Cl. affirmed
Conners v. United States 271 (1901) Brown none none Ct. Cl. affirmed
City of Lampasas v. Bell 276 (1901) McKenna none none C.C.W.D. Tex. dismissed
Holly v. Domestic & F.M. Soc'y 284 (1901) Shiras none none 2d Cir. affirmed
Robinson v. Southern Nat'l Bank 295 (1901) Shiras none none 2d Cir. affirmed
McDonald v. Massachusetts 311 (1901) Gray none none Mass. Super. Ct. affirmed
Marx v. Ebner 314 (1901) Peckham none none D. Alaska affirmed
New Orleans D.R. Co. v. Louisiana 320 (1901) Peckham none none La. affirmed
Blythe v. Hinckley 333 (1901) Peckham none none Cal. affirmed
United States v. Beebe 343 (1901) Peckham none none 5th Cir. reversed
Bird v. United States 356 (1901) Shiras none none D. Alaska reversed
Gardner v. Bonestell 362 (1901) Brewer none none Cal. affirmed
Rice v. Ames 371 (1901) Brown none none N.D. Ill. affirmed
Wheless v. City of St. Louis 379 (1901) Fuller none none C.C.E.D. Mo. affirmed
Hobbs v. Beach 383 (1901) Brown none none 1st Cir. affirmed
Mitchell v. Furman 402 (1901) Fuller none none C.C.S.D. Fla. reversed
Johns v. Wilson 440 (1901) Brown none none Ariz. affirmed
Cargill Co. v. Minnesota R.R.W. Comm'n 452 (1901) Harlan none none Minn. affirmed
Mitchell v. First Nat'l Bank 471 (1901) Harlan none none 2d Cir. reversed
Thompson v. Ferry 484 (1901) Fuller none none Ariz. affirmed
Li Sing v. United States 486 (1901) Shiras none none 2d Cir. affirmed
Magruder v. Armes 496 (1901) Brewer none none D.C. Cir. dismissed
Minnesota v. Brundage 499 (1901) Harlan none none C.C.D. Minn. reversed
Wilkes Cnty. v. Coler 506 (1901) Harlan none none 4th Cir. certification
Mountain View M. & M. Co. v. McFadden 533 (1901) Fuller none none 9th Cir. reversed
In re McKenzie 536 (1901) Fuller none none 9th Cir. habeas corpus denied
Throckmorton v. Holt 552 (1901) Peckham none none D.C. Cir. reversed
Freeport Water Co. v. City of Freeport 587 (1901) McKenna none White Ill. affirmed
Danville Water Co. v. City of Danville 619 (1901) McKenna none White Ill. affirmed
Rogers Park Water Co. v. Fergus 624 (1901) McKenna none White Ill. affirmed

Notes and references

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

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