# List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 183

This is a list of cases reported in volume 183 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1901 and 1902.

## Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 183 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). 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 183 were decided the Court comprised the following nine members:
| 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) |
| Horace Gray | Associate Justice | Massachusetts | Nathan Clifford | December 20, 1881 (51–5) | January 9, 1882 – September 15, 1902 (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) |
| George Shiras Jr. | Associate Justice | Pennsylvania | Joseph P. Bradley | July 26, 1892 (Acclamation) | October 10, 1892 – February 23, 1903 (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) |

## 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.
* "# 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 183 U.S.

| Case Name | Page and year | Opinion of the Court | Concurring opinion(s) | Dissenting opinion(s) | Lower Court | Disposition |
| Holzapfel's Compositions Company v. Rahtjen's American Composition Company | 1 (1901) | Peckham | none | none | 2d Cir. | reversed |
| Knoxville Iron Company v. Harbison | 13 (1901) | Shiras | none | none | Tenn. | affirmed |
| Dayton Coal and Iron Company v. Barton | 23 (1901) | Shiras | none | none | Tenn. | affirmed |
| McMaster v. New York Life Insurance Company | 25 (1901) | Fuller | none | none | 8th Cir. | reversed |
| Mitchell v. Potomac Insurance Company | 42 (1901) | Peckham | none | none | D.C. Cir. | affirmed |
| Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company v. Missouri Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners | 53 (1901) | Brewer | none | none | Mo. | reversed |
| District of Columbia v. Eslin | 62 (1901) | Harlan | none | none | Ct. Cl. | dismissed |
| Gulf and Ship Island Railroad Company v. Hewes | 66 (1901) | Brown | none | none | Miss. | affirmed |
| Cotting v. Kansas City Stock Yards Company | 79 (1901) | Brewer | Harlan | none | C.C.D. Kan. | reversed |
| Dinsmore v. Southern Express Company | 115 (1901) | Harlan | none | none | 5th Cir. | affirmed |
| Wilson v. Merchants' Loan and Trust Company | 121 (1901) | Peckham | none | none | 7th Cir. | affirmed |
| Haseltine v. Central National Bank I | 130 (1901) | Brown | none | none | Mo. | dismissed |
| Haseltine v. Central National Bank II | 132 (1901) | Brown | none | none | Mo. | affirmed |
| Storti v. Massachusetts | 138 (1901) | Brewer | none | none | C.C.D. Mass. | affirmed |
| Pinney v. Nelson | 144 (1901) | Brewer | none | none | Cal. Super. Ct. | affirmed |
| Dooley v. United States | 151 (1901) | Brown | White | Fuller | C.C.S.D.N.Y. | affirmed |
| 14 Diamond Rings v. United States | 176 (1901) | Fuller | Brown | none | N.D. Ill. | reversed |
| Arkansas v. Kansas and Texas Coal Company | 185 (1901) | Fuller | none | none | C.C.W.D. Ark. | reversed |
| Wilson Brothers v. Nelson | 191 (1901) | Gray | none | Shiras | 7th Cir. | certification |
| National Foundry and Pipe Works v. Oconto Water Supply Company | 216 (1902) | White | none | none | Wis. | affirmed |
| Capital City Dairy Company v. Ohio | 238 (1902) | White | none | none | Ohio | affirmed |
| Greene v. Henkel | 249 (1902) | Peckham | none | none | C.C.S.D.N.Y. | affirmed |
| The Kensington | 263 (1902) | White | none | none | 2d Cir. | reversed |
| Orr v. Gilman | 278 (1902) | Shiras | none | none | N.Y. Cnty. Sur. Ct. | affirmed |
| Schrimpscher v. Stockton | 290 (1902) | Brown | none | none | Kan. | affirmed |
| Gallup v. Schmidt | 300 (1902) | Shiras | none | none | Ind. Cir. Ct. | affirmed |
| Northern Assurance Company v. Grand View Building Association | 308 (1902) | Shiras | none | none | 8th Cir. | reversed |
| Carter v. McClaughry | 365 (1902) | Fuller | none | none | C.C.D. Kan. | affirmed |
| Guarantee Company of North America v. Mechanics Savings Bank and Trust Company | 402 (1902) | Fuller | none | none | 6th Cir. | reversed |
| Tucker v. Alexandroff | 424 (1902) | Brown | Peckham | Gray | 3d Cir. | reversed |
| Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad Company v. Reynolds | 471 (1902) | Brewer | none | Brown | Fla. | affirmed |
| McChord v. City of Cincinnati | 483 (1902) | Fuller | none | none | C.C.D. Ky. | reversed |
| Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company v. Kentucky | 503 (1902) | Shiras | none | none | Ky. | affirmed |
| Southern Pacific Railroad Company v. United States | 519 (1902) | Brewer | none | none | 9th Cir. | reversed |
| United States Trust Company v. New Mexico | 535 (1902) | Brewer | none | none | Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M. | affirmed |
| Ex parte Wilder's Steamship Company | 545 (1902) | Gray | none | none | 9th Cir. | mandamus denied |
| Nutting v. Massachusetts | 553 (1902) | Gray | none | Harlan | Mass. Super. Ct. | affirmed |
| Minder v. Georgia | 559 (1902) | Fuller | none | none | Ga. Super. Ct. | affirmed |
| McKinley Creek Mining Company v. Alaska United Mining Company | 563 (1902) | McKenna | none | none | D. Alaska | affirmed |
| Maese v. Herman | 572 (1902) | McKenna | none | none | D.C. Cir. | affirmed |
| Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company v. Zernecke | 582 (1902) | McKenna | none | none | Neb. | affirmed |
| Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company v. Eaton | 589 (1902) | McKenna | none | none | Neb. | affirmed |
| United States Repair and Guarantee Company v. Assyrian Asphalt Company | 591 (1902) | McKenna | none | none | 7th Cir. | affirmed |
| Midway Company v. Eaton I | 602 (1902) | McKenna | none | none | Minn. | affirmed |
| Midway Company v. Eaton II | 619 (1902) | McKenna | none | none | Minn. | affirmed |
| Texas and Pacific Railway Company v. Reiss | 621 (1902) | Peckham | none | none | 2d Cir. | affirmed |
| Texas and Pacific Railway Company v. Callender | 632 (1902) | Peckham | none | none | 2d Cir. | affirmed |
| Sun Printing and Publishing Association v. Moore | 642 (1902) | White | none | none | 2d Cir. | affirmed |
| Southern Pacific Railroad Company v. Bell | 675 (1902) | Brown | none | none | Cal. | affirmed |
| Groeck v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company | 690 (1902) | Brown | none | none | 9th Cir. | reversed |