List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 201

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This is a list of cases reported in volume 201 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1906.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 201 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). 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 201 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 Fuller	Chief Justice	Illinois	Morrison Waite	July 20, 1888 (41–20)	October 8, 1888 – July 4, 1910 (Died)
	John Marshall Harlan	Associate Justice	Kentucky	David Davis	November 29, 1877 (Acclamation)	December 10, 1877 – October 14, 1911 (Died)
	David Josiah Brewer	Associate Justice	Kansas	Stanley Matthews	December 18, 1889 (53–11)	January 6, 1890 – March 28, 1910 (Died)
	Henry Billings Brown	Associate Justice	Michigan	Samuel Freeman Miller	December 29, 1890 (Acclamation)	January 5, 1891 – May 28, 1906 (Retired)
	Edward Douglass White	Associate Justice	Louisiana	Samuel Blatchford	February 19, 1894 (Acclamation)	March 12, 1894 – December 18, 1910 (Continued as chief justice)
	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)
	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)

Notable Case in 201 U.S.

Hale v. Henkel

Hale v. Henkel, 201 U.S. 43 (1906), is a major Supreme Court decision in which the Court established the power of a federal grand jury engaged in an investigation into corporate malfeasance to require the corporation in question to surrender its records.

Citation style

See also: United States district court

See also: United States circuit 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.

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
• 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 201 U.S.

See also: Fuller Court

Case Name	Page and year	Opinion of the Court	Concurring opinion(s)	Dissenting opinion(s)	Lower Court	Disposition
Kentucky v. Powers	1 (1906)	Harlan	none	none	C.C.E.D. Ky.	reversed
New Mexico v. Atchison et al. Ry. Company	41 (1906)	Fuller	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M.	dismissed
Hale v. Henkel	43 (1906)	Brown	Harlan; McKenna	Brewer	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
McAlister v. Henkel	90 (1906)	Brown	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Nelson v. United States	92 (1906)	McKenna	none	none	C.C.D. Minn.	affirmed
Alexander v. United States	117 (1906)	McKenna	none	none	C.C.E.D. Wis.	dismissed
Felts v. Murphy	123 (1906)	Peckham	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
Valentina v. Mercer	131 (1906)	Peckham	none	none	C.C.D.N.J.	affirmed
Otis Company v. Ludlow Manufacturing Company	140 (1906)	Holmes	none	none	Mass. Super. Ct.	affirmed
Ex parte National E. and S. Company	156 (1906)	Brewer	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	mandamus denied
Leschen and Sons Rope Company v. Broderick and Bascom Rope Company	166 (1906)	Brown	none	none	8th Cir.	affirmed
St. Louis et al. Company v. Maryland Casualty Company	173 (1906)	Holmes	none	none	8th Cir.	certification
Brown v. Gurney	184 (1906)	Fuller	none	none	Colo.	affirmed
Amadeo v. Northern Assurance Company	194 (1906)	Fuller	none	none	D.P.R.	reversed
Wisconsin v. Hitchcock	202 (1906)	Harlan	none	none	original	dismissed
Christopher v. Norvell	216 (1906)	Harlan	none	none	5th Cir.	affirmed
Wyman v. Wallace	230 (1906)	Brewer	none	none	8th Cir.	affirmed
Frenzer v. Wallace	244 (1906)	Brewer	none	none	8th Cir.	affirmed
Michigan Central Railroad Company v. Powers	245 (1906)	Brewer	none	none	C.C.W.D. Mich.	affirmed
De la Rama v. De la Rama	303 (1906)	Brown	none	none	Phil.	reversed
Keen v. Keen	319 (1906)	Brown	none	none	Mo.	dismissed
Houston and Texas Central Railway Company v. Mayes	321 (1906)	Brown	none	none	Tex. App.	reversed
Joy v. City of St. Louis	332 (1906)	Peckham	none	none	C.C.E.D. Mo.	affirmed
York Manufacturing Company v. Cassell	344 (1906)	Peckham	none	none	6th Cir.	reversed
United States v. Downing	354 (1906)	McKenna	none	none	2d Cir.	reversed
Soper v. Lawrence Brothers Company	359 (1906)	Holmes	none	none	Me.	affirmed
Rodriguez v. Vivoni	371 (1906)	Holmes	none	none	D.P.R.	affirmed
The Wildcroft	378 (1906)	Day	none	none	3d Cir.	affirmed
United States v. Wickersham	390 (1906)	Day	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Blair v. City of Chicago	400 (1906)	Day	none	McKenna	C.C.N.D. Ill.	reversed
West Chicago Street Railroad Company v. Illinois ex rel. City of Chicago	506 (1906)	Harlan	none	none	Ill.	affirmed
City of Cleveland v. Cleveland Electric Railway Company	529 (1906)	McKenna	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ohio	affirmed
Powers v. Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway Company	543 (1906)	Brewer	none	none	C.C.W.D. Mich.	affirmed
Haddock v. Haddock	562 (1906)	White	none	Brown; Holmes	N.Y. Sup. Ct.	affirmed
St. John v. New York	633 (1906)	McKenna	none	none	N.Y. Sup. Ct.	affirmed
Rawlins v. Georgia	638 (1906)	Holmes	none	none	Ga.	affirmed

See also

• Certificate of division

External links

• [1] Case reports in volume 201 from Library of Congress
• [2] Case reports in volume 201 from Court Listener
• [3] Case reports in volume 201 from the Caselaw Access Project of Harvard Law School
• [4] Case reports in volume 201 from Google Scholar
• [5] Case reports in volume 201 from Justia
• [6] Case reports in volume 201 from Open Jurist
• Website of the United States Supreme Court
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• 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