List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 118

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This is a list of cases reported in volume 118 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1886.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 118 U.S.

See also: List of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States

See also: List of United States Supreme Court justices by time in office

See also: List of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States by court composition

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 118 U.S. 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
	Morrison Waite	Chief Justice	Ohio	Salmon P. Chase	January 21, 1874 (63–0)	March 4, 1874 – March 23, 1888 (Died)
	Samuel Freeman Miller	Associate Justice	Iowa	Peter Vivian Daniel	July 16, 1862 (Acclamation)	July 21, 1862 – October 13, 1890 (Died)
	Stephen Johnson Field	Associate Justice	California	newly created seat	March 10, 1863 (Acclamation)	May 10, 1863 – December 1, 1897 (Retired)
	Joseph P. Bradley	Associate Justice	New Jersey	newly created seat	March 21, 1870 (46–9)	March 23, 1870 – January 22, 1892 (Died)
	John Marshall Harlan	Associate Justice	Kentucky	David Davis	November 29, 1877 (Acclamation)	December 10, 1877 – October 14, 1911 (Died)
	William Burnham Woods	Associate Justice	Georgia	William Strong	December 21, 1880 (39–8)	January 5, 1881 – May 14, 1887 (Died)
	Stanley Matthews	Associate Justice	Ohio	Noah Haynes Swayne	May 12, 1881 (24–23)	May 17, 1881 – March 22, 1889 (Died)
	Horace Gray	Associate Justice	Massachusetts	Nathan Clifford	December 20, 1881 (51–5)	January 9, 1882 – September 15, 1902 (Died)
	Samuel Blatchford	Associate Justice	New York	Ward Hunt	March 22, 1882 (Acclamation)	April 3, 1882 – July 7, 1893 (Died)

Notable Cases in 118 U.S.

Bancroft Davis, the Reporter of Decisions who wrote the headnote in Santa Clara County.

Yick Wo v. Hopkins

Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 356 (1886), was the first case in which the Supreme Court held that a law, race-neutral on its face but administered in a prejudicial manner, is an infringement of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. By the 1950s, the Warren Court used the principle established in Yick Wo to strike down several attempts by states and municipalities in the Deep South to limit the political rights of blacks. Yick Wo has been cited in more than 150 Supreme Court cases since it was decided.

Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific R.R. Co.

Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific R.R. Co., 394 (1886), is a corporate law case concerning taxation of railroad properties. The case is most notable for a headnote written by the Supreme Court's Reporter of Decisions, Bancroft Davis, stating that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment grants constitutional protections to corporations as it does to natural persons, although the text of the decision itself does not establish this principle.

Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Co. v. Illinois

In Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Co. v. Illinois, 557 (1886), also known as the Wabash Case, the Supreme Court severely limited the rights of states to control or impede interstate commerce. The decision led to the creation of the federal Interstate Commerce Commission, the first modern regulatory agency in the United States.

Citation style

See also: United States district court

See also: United States circuit court

See also: United States federal courts

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 volume 118 U.S.

See also: Waite Court

Case Name	Page and year	Opinion of the Court	Concurring opinion(s)	Dissenting opinion(s)	Lower Court	Disposition
Emerson v. Senter and Company	3 (1886)	Harlan	None	None	C.C.E.D. Ark.	reversed
Dobson v. Dornan	10 (1886)	Blatchford	Field	None	C.C.E.D. Pa.	reversed
Johnston v. District of Columbia	19 (1886)	Gray	None	None	Sup. Ct. D.C.	affirmed
United States Rifle and Cartridge Company v. Whitney Arms Company	22 (1886)	Gray	None	None	C.C.D. Conn.	affirmed
Keyes v. Grant	25 (1886)	Matthews	None	None	C.C.D. Colo.	reversed
South Boston Iron Company v. United States	37 (1886)	Waite	None	None	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Oakley v. Goodnow	43 (1886)	Waite	None	None	Iowa	affirmed
Benjamin's Heirs v. Dubois	46 (1886)	Waite	None	None	Sup. Ct. D.C.	dismissed
Mexican National Construction Company v. Reusens	49 (1886)	Waite	None	None	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	security denied
Cambria Iron Company v. Ashburn	54 (1886)	Waite	None	None	C.C.S.D. Ohio	affirmed
Cashman v. Amador and Sacramento Canal Company	58 (1886)	Waite	None	None	C.C.D. Cal.	affirmed
Hart v. United States	62 (1886)	Blatchford	None	None	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Cape Girardeau County v. United States	68 (1886)	Harlan	None	None	C.C.E.D. Mo.	affirmed
Cadman v. Peter	73 (1886)	Blatchford	None	None	C.C.W.D. Mich.	affirmed
United States v. Landram	81 (1886)	Woods	None	None	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
United States v. Wilson	86 (1886)	Matthews	None	None	C.C.M.D. Tenn.	affirmed
Spraigue, Soullee and Company v. Thompson	90 (1886)	Matthews	None	None	Ga.	reversed
Clay v. Freeman	97 (1886)	Bradley	None	None	C.C.N.D. Miss.	reversed
Southern Pacific Company v. California	109 (1886)	Waite	None	None	Cal.	reversed
Ex parte Lothrop	113 (1886)	Waite	None	None	Terr. Ariz. County Ct.	habeas corpus denied
United States v. Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway Company	120 (1886)	Gray	None	None	C.C.M.D. Tenn.	reversed
Conley v. Nailor	127 (1886)	Woods	None	None	Sup. Ct. D.C.	reversed
New Orleans Board of Liquidation v. Hart	136 (1886)	Field	None	None	C.C.E.D. La.	affirmed
Sun Mutual Insurance Company v. United States ex rel. Hart	147 (1886)	per curiam	None	None	not indicated	affirmed
Hopper v. Town of Covington	148 (1886)	Gray	None	None	C.C.D. Ind.	affirmed
Paine v. Central Vermont Railway	152 (1886)	Gray	None	None	C.C.D. Vt.	affirmed
Graham v. New York and New England Railroad Company	161 (1886)	Blatchford	None	None	C.C.D. Mass.	affirmed
Gardner v. Herz	180 (1886)	Blatchford	None	None	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Arrowsmith v. Harmoning	194 (1886)	Waite	None	None	Ohio	affirmed
Iron Silver Mining Company v. Elgin Mining and Smelting Company	196 (1886)	Field	None	Waite	C.C.D. Colo.	affirmed
Hunt v. Oliver	211 (1886)	Woods	None	None	C.C.E.D. Mich.	reversed
Hartranft v. Du Pont	223 (1886)	Woods	None	Bradley	C.C.E.D. Pa.	reversed
Johnson v. Wilkins	228 (1886)	Waite	None	None	C.C.N.D. Fla.	reinstatement denied
Wells v. Wilkins	230 (1886)	Waite	None	None	C.C.N.D. Fla.	reinstatement denied
Bohanan v. Nebraska	231 (1886)	Waite	None	None	Neb.	dismissal denied
United States v. Hailey	233 (1886)	Waite	None	None	Sup. Ct. Terr. Idaho	dismissed
United States v. Central Pacific Railroad Company	235 (1886)	Woods	None	None	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Evans v. Pike	241 (1886)	Bradley	None	None	C.C.E.D. La.	affirmed
Libby v. Clark	250 (1886)	Miller	None	None	Kan.	affirmed
Salt Lake City v. Hollister	256 (1886)	Miller	None	None	Sup. Ct. Terr. Utah	affirmed
Plymouth Gold Mining Company v. Amador and Sacramento Canal Company	264 (1886)	Waite	None	None	C.C.D. Cal.	affirmed
Mullan v. United States	271 (1886)	Waite	None	None	C.C.D. Cal.	affirmed
Carson v. Hyatt	279 (1886)	Waite	None	None	S.C.	reversed
Pennsylvania Railroad Company v. St. Louis, Alton and Terre Haute Railroad Company	290 (1886)	Miller	None	Bradley	C.C.D. Ind.	reversed
Loring v. Palmer	321 (1886)	Waite	None	None	C.C.E.D. Mich.	affirmed
Snow v. United States	346 (1886)	Blatchford	None	None	Sup. Ct. Terr. Utah	dismissed
Cannon v. United States	355 (1886)	Blatchford	None	None	Sup. Ct. Terr. Utah	dismissed
Yick Wo v. Hopkins	356 (1886)	Matthews	None	None	multiple	reversed
United States v. Kagama	375 (1886)	Miller	None	None	C.C.D. Cal.	certification
Francis v. Flinn	385 (1886)	Field	None	None	C.C.E.D. La.	reversed
United States v. Langston	389 (1886)	Harlan	None	None	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company	394 (1886)	Harlan	None	None	C.C.D. Cal.	affirmed
San Bernardino County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company	417 (1886)	Harlan	Field	None	C.C.D. Cal.	affirmed
Norton v. Shelby County	425 (1886)	Field	None	None	C.C.W.D. Tenn.	affirmed
Morgan's Steamship Company v. Louisiana Board of Health	455 (1886)	Miller	None	None	La.	affirmed
The City of Norwich	468 (1886)	Bradley	None	Matthews	C.C.E.D.N.Y.	affirmed
The Scotland	507 (1886)	Bradley	None	Matthews	C.C.E.D.N.Y.	affirmed
The Great Western	520 (1886)	Bradley	None	Matthews	C.C.E.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Vicksburg and Meridian Railroad Company v. Putnam	545 (1886)	Gray	None	None	C.C.N.D. Ga.	reversed
Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway Company v. Illinois	557 (1886)	Miller	None	Bradley	Ill.	reversed
Little v. Giles	596 (1886)	Bradley	None	None	C.C.D. Neb.	reversed
New York Elevated Railway Company v. Fifth National Bank	608 (1886)	Waite	None	None	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	dismissal denied
Ex parte Phenix Insurance Company	610 (1886)	Blatchford	None	None	E.D. Wis.	prohibition granted
Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad Company v. United States	626 (1886)	Field	None	None	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Pennsylvania Railroad Company v. St. Louis, Alton and Terre Haute Railroad Company	630 (1886)	Miller	None	None	C.C.D. Ind.	rehearing denied
Delano v. Butler	634 (1886)	Matthews	None	None	C.C.D. Mass.	affirmed
Whitney v. Butler	655 (1886)	Harlan	None	None	C.C.D. Mass.	reversed
Harkness v. Russell and Company	663 (1886)	Bradley	None	None	Sup. Ct. Terr. Utah	affirmed
Kansas City, Lawrence and South Kansas Railroad Company v. Brewster	682 (1886)	Miller	None	None	C.C.D. Ark.	reversed

Notes and references

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

External links

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• [2] Case reports in volume 118 from Court Listener
• [3] Case reports in volume 118 from the Caselaw Access Project of Harvard Law School
• [4] Case reports in volume 118 from Google Scholar
• [5] Case reports in volume 118 from Justia
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