List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 250

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.
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Composition methodPresidential nomination with Senate confirmation
Authorised 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 250 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1919.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 250 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 250 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 250 U.S.

Abrams v. United States

In Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. 616 (1919), the Supreme Court upheld the 1918 Amendment to the Espionage Act of 1917, which made it a criminal offense to urge the curtailment of production of the materials necessary to wage World War I with intent to hinder the progress of the war. The defendants were convicted on the basis of two leaflets they printed and threw from windows of a building in New York City. The defendants were charged and convicted of inciting resistance to the war effort and urging curtailment of production of essential war material. They were sentenced to 10 and 20 years in prison. The Supreme Court ruled that the defendants' freedom of speech, protected by the First Amendment, was not violated.

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.

List of cases in volume 250 U.S.

Case Name Page and year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition
Portsmouth Harbor Land and Hotel Company v. United States 1 (1919) White none none Ct. Cl. affirmed
American Fire Insurance Company v. King Lumber and Manufacturing Company 2 (1919) McKenna none none Fla. affirmed
Caldwell v. United States 14 (1919) McKenna none none Ct. Cl. affirmed
Tayabas Land Company v. Manila Railroad Company 22 (1919) McKenna none none Phil. affirmed
Schlitz Brewing Company v. Houston Ice and Brewing Company 28 (1919) Holmes none none 5th Cir. affirmed
Coleman v. United States 30 (1919) Holmes none none Ct. Cl. affirmed
Sage v. United States 33 (1919) Holmes none none Ct. Cl. reversed
Arkansas v. Mississippi 39 (1919) Day none none original continued
Ball Engineering Company v. J.G. White and Company 46 (1919) Day none none 2d Cir. reversed
Kenny v. Miles 58 (1919) VanDevanter none none Okla. reversed
Parker v. Riley 66 (1919) VanDevanter none none 8th Cir. reversed
Rust Land and Lumber Company v. Jackson 71 (1919) Pitney none none Miss. dismissed
Fillippon v. Albion Vein Slate Company 76 (1919) Pitney none none 3d Cir. reversed
New York Central Railroad Company v. Goldberg 85 (1919) Pitney none none N.Y. affirmed
Brothers v. United States 88 (1919) Pitney none none Ct. Cl. affirmed
Mackay Telegraph and Cable Company v. City of Little Rock 94 (1919) Pitney none none Ark. affirmed
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company v. Smith 101 (1919) Pitney none none Md. affirmed
United States v. Reynolds 104 (1919) Pitney none none 8th Cir. reversed
United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company v. Oklahoma 111 (1919) McReynolds none none Okla. dismissed
Berkman v. United States 114 (1919) McReynolds none none S.D.N.Y. dismissed
Carey v. South Dakota 118 (1919) Brandeis none none S.D. affirmed
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company v. United States 123 (1919) Clarke none none 3d Cir. affirmed
Kinzell v. Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company 130 (1919) Clarke none none Idaho reversed
Northern Pacific Railroad Company v. North Dakota ex rel. Langer 135 (1919) White none none N.D. reversed
Public Service Company of Northern Illinois v. Corboy 153 (1919) White none none D. Ind. reversed
Dakota Central Telephone Company v. South Dakota ex rel. Payne 163 (1919) White none none S.D. reversed
Kansas v. Burleson 188 (1919) White none none original dismissed
Burleson v. Dempcy 191 (1919) White none none N.D. Ill. reversed
Macleod v. New England Telephone and Telegraph Company 195 (1919) White none none Mass. affirmed
United States v. Ferger I 199 (1919) White none none S.D. Ohio reversed
United States v. Ferger II 207 (1919) White none none S.D. Ohio reversed
Capital Trust Company v. Calhoun 208 (1919) McKenna none none Ky. reversed
Dana v. Dana 220 (1919) Day none none Mass. dismissed
Flanders v. Coleman 223 (1919) Day none none S.D. Ga. reversed
Brainerd, Shaler and Hall Quarry Company v. Brice 229 (1919) Day none none S.D.N.Y. affirmed
Parker v. Richard 235 (1919) VanDevanter none none 8th Cir. reversed
Denver, and Rio Grande Railroad Company v. City and County of Denver 241 (1919) VanDevanter none none multiple affirmed
The Lake Monroe 246 (1919) Pitney none none D. Mass. multiple
Lincoln Gas and Electric Light Company v. City of Lincoln 256 (1919) Pitney none none D. Neb. affirmed
The Scow 6-S 269 (1919) Pitney none none S.D.N.Y. affirmed
Blair v. United States 273 (1919) Pitney none none S.D.N.Y. affirmed
Rumely v. McCarthy 283 (1919) Pitney none none S.D.N.Y. affirmed
Washington Post Company v. Chaloner 290 (1919) McReynolds none none D.C. Cir. reversed
Williams v. Vreeland 295 (1919) McReynolds none none 3d Cir. affirmed
United States v. Colgate and Company 300 (1919) McReynolds none none E.D. Va. affirmed
Camp v. Gress 308 (1919) Brandeis none none 4th Cir. affirmed
Benedict v. City of New York 321 (1919) Brandeis none none 2d Cir. affirmed
United States v. Babcock 328 (1919) Brandeis none none Ct. Cl. reversed
Northern Pacific Railroad Company v. Puget Sound and Willapa Harbor Railway Company 332 (1919) Clarke none none Wash. affirmed
Minerals Separation, Ltd. v. Butte and Superior Mining Company 336 (1919) Clarke none none 9th Cir. multiple
Vitelli and Son v. United States 355 (1919) White none none Ct. Cust. App. reversed
Commercial Cable Company v. Burleson 360 (1919) White none none S.D.N.Y. reversed
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company v. Western Union Telegraph Company 363 (1919) Holmes none none multiple affirmed
Pennsylvania Railroad Company v. Minds 368 (1919) Holmes none none multiple affirmed
DeGanay v. Lederer 376 (1919) Day none none 3d Cir. certification
T.H. Symington Company v. National Malleable Castings Company 383 (1919) VanDevanter none none multiple multiple
Northern Pacific Railroad Company v. McComas 387 (1919) VanDevanter none none Or. reversed
City of Pawhuska v. Pawhuska Oil Company 394 (1919) VanDevanter none none Okla. dismissed
Arizona Employers' Liability Cases 400 (1919) Pitney Holmes McKenna, McReynolds multiple affirmed
Hancock v. City of Muskogee 454 (1919) Pitney none none Okla. affirmed
American Manufacturing Company v. City of St. Louis 459 (1919) Pitney none none Mo. affirmed
Erie Railroad Company v. Shuart 465 (1919) McReynolds none Clarke N.Y. Sup. Ct. reversed
Barrett v. Virginian Railway Company 473 (1919) McReynolds none none 4th Cir. reversed
Texas and Pacific Railway Company v. Leatherwood 478 (1919) Brandeis McReynolds none Tex. Civ. App. reversed
Southern Pacific Company v. Bogert 483 (1919) Brandeis none McReynolds 2d Cir. decree modified
Odell v. F.C. Farnsworth Company 501 (1919) Clarke none none S.D.N.Y. affirmed
Bowerman v. Hamner 504 (1919) Clarke none none 9th Cir. affirmed
Central of Georgia Railway Company v. Wright 519 (1919) Holmes none none Ga. reversed
Maxwell v. Bugbee 525 (1919) Day none Holmes N.J. affirmed
Cartas v. United States 545 (1919) White none none Ct. Cl. affirmed
United States ex rel. Alaska Smokeless Coal Company v. Lane 549 (1919) McKenna none none D.C. Cir. affirmed
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company v. United States 556 (1919) McKenna none none 3d Cir. certification
Pennsylvania Railroad Company v. Public Service Commission of Pennsylvania 566 (1919) Holmes none none Pa. Super. Ct. reversed
Pell v. McCabe 573 (1919) Holmes none none 2d Cir. dismissed
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway Company v. Fink 577 (1919) Day none none Ohio Dist. Ct. App. reversed
Stilson v. United States 583 (1919) Day none none E.D. Pa. affirmed
Mullen v. Pickens 590 (1919) Pitney none none Okla. affirmed
New York Central Railroad Company v. Bianc 596 (1919) Pitney none none N.Y. affirmed
Bank of Oxford v. Love 603 (1919) McReynolds none none Miss. affirmed
Groesbeck v. Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway Company 607 (1919) Brandeis none none E.D. Mich. affirmed
Abrams v. United States 616 (1919) Clarke none Holmes S.D.N.Y. affirmed

Notes and references

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

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