List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 242

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This is a list of cases reported in volume 242 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1916 and 1917.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 242 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 242 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
	Edward Douglass White	Chief Justice	Louisiana	Melville Fuller	December 12, 1910 (Acclamation)	December 19, 1910 – May 19, 1921 (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)
	Willis Van Devanter	Associate Justice	Wyoming	Edward Douglass White (as Associate Justice)	December 15, 1910 (Acclamation)	January 3, 1911 – June 2, 1937 (Retired)
	Mahlon Pitney	Associate Justice	New Jersey	John Marshall Harlan	March 13, 1912 (50–26)	March 18, 1912 – December 31, 1922 (Resigned)
	James Clark McReynolds	Associate Justice	Tennessee	Horace Harmon Lurton	August 29, 1914 (44–6)	October 12, 1914 – January 31, 1941 (Retired)
	Louis Brandeis	Associate Justice	Massachusetts	Joseph Rucker Lamar	June 1, 1916 (47–22)	June 5, 1916 – February 13, 1939 (Retired)
	John Hessin Clarke	Associate Justice	Ohio	Charles Evans Hughes	July 24, 1916 (Acclamation)	October 9, 1916 – September 18, 1922 (Retired)

Notable Case in 242 U.S.

Caminetti v. United States

In Caminetti v. United States, 242 U.S. 470 (1917), the Supreme Court interpreted the scope of the Mann Act. The Court decided the Mann Act applied not only to purposes of prostitution but also to other noncommercial consensual sexual liaisons, and that consensual extramarital sex falls within the definition of "immoral sex." The case was one of the first in which the Court embraced the “plain meaning rule”. This is a form of legislative interpretation that focuses strongly on the literal text of a statute. In its most extreme form, the plain meaning rule does not point outside the words of the statute at any other sources to find legislative intent, if the Court decides that the rule is "plain" from its text alone.

Citation style

See also: United States district court

See also: United States court of appeals

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.

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
• "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.,"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 242 U.S.

See also: White Court

Case Name	Page & year	Opinion of the Court	Concurring opinion(s)	Dissenting opinion(s)	Lower Court	Disposition
Inter-Island Steam Navigation Company, Ltd. v. Ward	1 (1916)	White	none	none	9th Cir.	dismissed
Cross v. United States	4 (1916)	White	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Portuguese-American Bank v. Welles	7 (1916)	Holmes	none	none	9th Cir.	reversed
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company v. Parker	13 (1916)	Holmes	none	none	Ky.	affirmed
Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company v. City of Raleigh	15 (1916)	White	none	none	E.D.N.C.	affirmed
O'Neil v. Northern Colorado Irrigation Company	20 (1916)	Holmes	none	none	Colo.	affirmed
Ex parte United States	27 (1916)	White	none	none	N.D. Ohio	mandamus granted
Lehon v. City of Atlanta	53 (1916)	McKenna	none	none	Ga. Ct. App.	affirmed
Atlantic City Railroad Company v. Parker	56 (1916)	Holmes	none	none	N.J.	affirmed
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company v. United States	60 (1916)	Holmes	none	Pitney	M.D. Tenn.	reversed
United States v. Oppenheimer	85 (1916)	Holmes	none	none	S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Pennsylvania Railroad Company v. W.F. Jacoby and Co.	89 (1916)	Day	none	none	3d Cir.	reversed
Seton Hall College v. Village of South Orange	100 (1916)	Day	none	none	N.J. Sup. Ct.	affirmed
Swift and Company v. Hoover	107 (1916)	Day	none	none	Sup. Ct. D.C.	dismissed
Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad Company v. Stiles	111 (1916)	Day	none	none	Ala.	affirmed
Pennsylvania Railroad Company v. Sonman Shaft Coal Company	120 (1916)	VanDevanter	none	none	Pa.	affirmed
Stewart v. Ramsay	128 (1916)	Pitney	none	none	N.D. Ill.	affirmed
Sim v. Edenborn	131 (1916)	McReynolds	none	none	2d Cir.	reversed
Alder v. Edenborn	137 (1916)	McReynolds	none	none	2d Cir.	reversed
McIntyre v. Kavanaugh	138 (1916)	McReynolds	none	none	N.Y. Sup. Ct.	affirmed
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company v. McLaughlin	142 (1916)	McReynolds	none	none	W. Va. Cir. Ct.	reversed
Great Northern Railway Company v. Capital Trust Company	144 (1916)	McReynolds	none	none	Minn.	reversed
New York Central Railroad Company v. Beaham	148 (1916)	McReynolds	none	none	Mo. App. Ct.	reversed
Hutchinson Ice Cream Co. v. Iowa	153 (1916)	Brandeis	none	none	multiple	affirmed
Kane v. New Jersey	160 (1916)	Brandeis	none	none	N.J.	affirmed
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company v. Whitacre	169 (1916)	Brandeis	none	none	Md.	affirmed
Kryger v. Wilson	171 (1916)	Brandeis	none	none	N.D.	affirmed
United States v. Merchants' and Manufacturers Traffic Association of Sacramento	178 (1916)	Brandeis	none	none	N.D. Cal.	reversed
United States v. Northern Pacific Railroad Company	190 (1916)	Clarke	none	none	8th Cir.	affirmed
Cissna v. Tennessee	195 (1916)	White	none	none	Tenn.	continued
Lovato v. New Mexico	199 (1916)	White	none	none	N.M.	affirmed
Goshen Manufacturing Company v. H.A. Myers Manufacturing Company	202 (1916)	McKenna	none	none	7th Cir.	reversed
United States v. Pennsylvania Railroad Company	208 (1916)	McKenna	none	none	W.D. Pa.	affirmed
Detroit United Railway Company v. Michigan	238 (1916)	Pitney	none	Clarke	Mich.	reversed
Vandalia Railroad Company v. Public Service Commission	255 (1916)	Pitney	none	none	Ind.	affirmed
Minerals Separation, Ltd. v. Hyde	261 (1916)	Clarke	none	none	9th Cir.	reversed
Long Sault Development Company v. Call	272 (1916)	Clarke	none	none	N.Y. Sup. Ct.	dismissed
Ex parte Indiana Transportation Company	281 (1916)	White	none	none	N.D. Ill.	continued
Chicago, Terre Haute and Southeastern Railway Company v. Anderson	283 (1916)	McKenna	none	none	Ind.	affirmed
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company v. Ohio Valley Tie Company	288 (1916)	Holmes	none	none	Ky.	reversed
Illinois Central Railroad Company v. Peery	292 (1916)	Holmes	none	none	Minn.	reversed
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company v. Wilson	295 (1916)	Holmes	none	none	Ill. App. Ct.	affirmed
Pennsylvania Railroad Company v. Stineman Coal Mining Company	298 (1916)	VanDevanter	none	none	Pa.	reversed
Erie Railroad Company v. Welsh	303 (1916)	Pitney	none	none	Ohio	affirmed
Williams v. Cobb	307 (1916)	Clarke	none	none	2d Cir.	affirmed
Clark Distilling Company v. Western Maryland Railway Company	311 (1917)	White	none	none	D. Md.	affirmed
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company v. State Public Utilities Commission	333 (1917)	McKenna	none	none	Ill.	affirmed
Crane v. Johnson	339 (1917)	McKenna	none	none	S.D. Cal.	affirmed
McNaughton v. Johnson	344 (1917)	McKenna	none	none	S.D. Cal.	affirmed
Adamson v. Gilliland	350 (1917)	Holmes	none	none	8th Cir.	reversed
Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway Company v. Winters	353 (1917)	Holmes	none	none	Minn.	affirmed
Savings Bank of Danbury v. Loewe	357 (1917)	Holmes	none	none	2d Cir.	affirmed
Hill v. Reynolds	361 (1917)	VanDevanter	none	none	Okla.	affirmed
Gasquet v. Lapeyre	367 (1917)	VanDevanter	none	none	La.	dismissed
Dickson v. Luck Land Company	371 (1917)	VanDevanter	none	none	Minn.	affirmed
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company v. Clough	375 (1917)	Pitney	none	none	Ind.	affirmed
Harnage v. Martin	386 (1917)	Pitney	none	none	Okla.	affirmed
Baker v. Baker Eccles and Company	394 (1917)	Pitney	none	none	Ky.	affirmed
Newark Natural Gas and Fuel Company v. City of Newark	405 (1917)	Pitney	none	none	Ohio	affirmed
Louisville Bridge Company v. United States	409 (1917)	Pitney	none	none	W.D. Ky.	affirmed
Knauth, Nachod and Kuhne v. Latham and Company	426 (1917)	McReynolds	none	none	multiple	affirmed
Furness, Withy and Company, Ltd. v. Yang-Tsze Insurance Association, Ltd.	430 (1917)	McReynolds	none	none	2d Cir.	dismissed
Williams v. City of Chicago	434 (1917)	McReynolds	none	none	N.D. Ill.	affirmed
Dean v. Davis	438 (1917)	Brandeis	none	none	4th Cir.	affirmed
Western Transit Company v. A.C. Leslie and Company, Ltd.	448 (1917)	Brandeis	none	none	N.Y. Sup. Ct.	reversed
Chaloner v. Sherman	455 (1917)	Brandeis	none	none	2d Cir.	affirmed
Illinois Central Railroad Company v. Williams	462 (1917)	Clarke	none	none	Miss.	affirmed
Berry v. Davis	468 (1917)	Holmes	none	none	S.D. Iowa	reversed
Caminetti v. United States	470 (1917)	Day	none	McKenna	multiple	affirmed
Von Baumbach v. Sargent Land Company	503 (1917)	Day	none	none	8th Cir.	reversed
Thomas Cusack Company v. City of Chicago	526 (1917)	Clarke	none	none	Ill.	affirmed
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company v. Mims	532 (1917)	Clarke	none	none	S.C.	dismissed
United States v. American-Asiatic Steamship Company	537 (1917)	White	none	none	S.D.N.Y.	reversed
Hall v. Geiger-Jones Company	539 (1917)	McKenna	none	none	S.D. Ohio	reversed
Caldwell v. Sioux Falls Stock Yards Company	559 (1917)	McKenna	none	none	D.S.D.	reversed
Merrick v. Halsey and Company	568 (1917)	McKenna	none	none	E.D. Mich.	reversed
Herbert v. Shanley Company	591 (1917)	Holmes	none	none	2d Cir.	reversed
Sevilleta La Joya Grant v. Belen Land Grant	595 (1917)	VanDevanter	none	none	N.M.	affirmed
Second National Bank v. First National Bank	600 (1917)	Day	none	none	Ohio Super. Ct.	dismissed
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company v. Public Service Commission	603 (1917)	VanDevanter	none	none	W. Va.	affirmed

Notes and references

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

External links

• [1] Case reports in volume 242 from Library of Congress
• [2] Case reports in volume 242 from Court Listener
• [3] Case reports in volume 242 from the Caselaw Access Project of Harvard Law School
• [4] Case reports in volume 242 from Google Scholar
• [5] Case reports in volume 242 from Justia
• [6] Case reports in volume 242 from Open Jurist
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