# List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 116

This is a list of cases reported in volume 116 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1885 and 1886.

## Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 116 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 116 U.S. were decided the Court comprised the following nine members:
| 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 116 U.S.
### Presser v. Illinois

In Presser v. Illinois, 116 U.S. 252 (1886), the Supreme Court held "Unless restrained by their own constitutions, state legislatures may enact statutes to control and regulate all organizations, drilling, and parading of military bodies and associations except those which are authorized by the militia laws of the United States". The Court decided that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution limited only the power of Congress and the national government to control firearms, not that of the states, and that the right to peaceably assemble stated in the First Amendment was not protected except to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Presser was overruled by the Supreme Court in 2010 via McDonald v. City of Chicago.

### Boyd v. United States

Boyd v. United States, 116 U.S. 616 (1886), arose when 35 cases of plate glass were seized at the Port of New York for unpaid import duties. To prove the case, the government compelled E.A. Boyd & Sons to produce their invoice from the Union Plate Glass Company of Liverpool, England. Boyd complied, but claimed the order was a form of self-incrimination. On appeal, the Supreme Court held that "a search and seizure [was] equivalent [to] a compulsory production of a man's private papers" and the search was "an 'unreasonable search and seizure' within the meaning" of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Although never expressly overruled, some aspects of the Court's opinion in Boyd have been limited or negated by subsequent decisions.

## 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.
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 116 U.S.

| Case Name | Page and year | Opinion of the Court | Concurring opinion(s) | Dissenting opinion(s) | Lower Court | Disposition |
| Hanley v. Donoghue | 1 (1885) | Gray | None | None | Md. | reversed |
| Bridgewater Iron Company v. Lissberger | 8 (1885) | Gray | None | None | C.C.D. Mass. | affirmed |
| Marvel v. Merritt | 11 (1885) | Matthews | None | None | C.C.S.D.N.Y. | affirmed |
| Saxonville Mills v. Russell | 13 (1885) | Matthews | None | None | C.C.D. Mass. | affirmed |
| Miller v. Foree | 22 (1885) | Bradley | None | None | C.C.D. Ky. | affirmed |
| Utah and Northern Railway Company v. Fisher | 28 (1885) | Field | None | None | Sup. Ct. Terr. Idaho | affirmed |
| Holgate v. Eaton | 33 (1885) | Miller | None | None | C.C.N.D. Ohio | reversed |
| United States v. Price | 43 (1885) | Waite | None | None | N.D. Miss. | affirmed |
| Mackall v. Richards | 45 (1885) | Waite | None | None | Sup. Ct. D.C. | dismissed |
| Lee v. Johnson | 48 (1885) | Field | None | None | Mich. | reversed |
| Simmerman v. Nebraska | 54 (1885) | Waite | None | None | Neb. | dismissed |
| Cannon v. United States | 55 (1885) | Blatchford | None | Miller | Sup. Ct. Terr. Utah | affirmed |
| Roberts v. Reilly | 80 (1885) | Matthews | None | None | C.C.S.D. Ga. | affirmed |
| Call v. Palmer | 98 (1885) | Woods | None | None | C.C.D. Iowa | affirmed |
| United States v. Mooney | 104 (1885) | Woods | None | None | C.C.D. Mass. | affirmed |
| Coyle v. Davis | 108 (1885) | Blatchford | None | None | Sup. Ct. D.C. | affirmed |
| Liverpool and London Insurance Company v. Gunther | 113 (1885) | Matthews | None | None | C.C.E.D.N.Y. | reversed |
| Fisk v. Jefferson Parish | 131 (1885) | Miller | None | None | La. | reversed |
| Stewart v. Jefferson Parish | 135 (1885) | Miller | None | None | La. | affirmed |
| San Mateo County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company | 138 (1885) | Waite | None | None | C.C.D. Cal. | dismissed |
| Hewitt v. Filbert | 142 (1885) | Waite | None | None | Sup. Ct. D.C. | dismissed |
| McClure v. United States | 145 (1885) | Waite | None | None | Ct. Cl. | order denied |
| Union Pacific Railroad Company v. United States | 154 (1885) | Waite | None | None | Ct. Cl. | order denied |
| Burnett v. United States | 158 (1885) | Harlan | None | None | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| Winchester and Partridge Manufacturing Company v. Creary | 161 (1885) | Harlan | None | None | C.C.W.D. Tex. | reversed |
| Smith v. Whitney | 167 (1886) | Gray | None | None | Sup. Ct. D.C. | affirmed |
| Field v. De Comeau | 187 (1886) | Matthews | None | None | C.C.S.D.N.Y. | affirmed |
| Healy v. Joliet and Chicago Railroad Company | 191 (1886) | Miller | None | None | Ill. | affirmed |
| Webb v. Barnwall | 193 (1886) | Miller | None | None | C.C.M.D. Ala. | reversed |
| Doe v. Larmore | 198 (1886) | Waite | None | None | Ala. | affirmed |
| Kings County Savings Institution v. Blair | 200 (1886) | Woods | None | None | C.C.E.D.N.Y. | affirmed |
| Brown v. Colorado | 207 (1886) | Harlan | None | None | C.C.D. Colo. | affirmed |
| Ford v. United States | 213 (1886) | Harlan | None | None | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| City of Milwaukee v. Koeffler | 219 (1886) | Miller | None | None | C.C.E.D. Wis. | reversed |
| Coney v. Winchell | 227 (1886) | Waite | None | None | C.C.D. Conn. | affirmed |
| Southwestern Railroad Company v. Wright | 231 (1886) | Waite | None | None | Ga. | affirmed |
| Brown v. Davis | 237 (1886) | Blatchford | None | None | C.C.N.D.N.Y. | reversed |
| Presser v. Illinois | 252 (1886) | Woods | None | None | Ill. | affirmed |
| United States v. Spiegel | 270 (1886) | Matthews | None | None | C.C.S.D.N.Y. | certification |
| Renaud v. Abbott | 277 (1886) | Matthews | None | None | N.H. | reversed |
| Port of Mobile v. Watson | 289 (1886) | Woods | None | None | C.C.S.D. Ala. | affirmed |
| Stone v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Company | 307 (1886) | Waite | None | Harlan; Field | C.C.S.D. Miss. | reversed |
| Stone v. Illinois Central Railroad Company | 347 (1886) | Waite | None | Harlan; Field | C.C.S.D. Miss. | affirmed |
| Stone v. New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad Company | 352 (1886) | Waite | None | Harlan | C.C.S.D. Miss. | reversed |
| Anderson v. Santa Anna Township | 356 (1886) | Harlan | None | None | C.C.S.D. Ill. | reversed |
| Little v. Hackett | 366 (1886) | Field | None | None | C.C.D.N.J. | affirmed |
| Mower v. Fletcher | 380 (1886) | Waite | None | None | Cal. | affirmed |
| Stebbins v. Town of St. Anne | 386 (1886) | Gray | None | None | C.C.N.D. Ill. | affirmed |
| Johnson v. Wilkins | 392 (1886) | Waite | None | None | C.C.N.D. Fla. | dismissed |
| Wells v. Wilkins | 393 (1886) | Waite | None | None | C.C.N.D. Fla. | dismissed |
| Hunt v. United States | 394 (1886) | Woods | None | None | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| United States v. Wallace | 398 (1886) | Matthews | None | None | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| Ex parte Brown | 401 (1886) | Waite | None | None | Sup. Ct. Terr. Wash. | mandamus denied |
| Union Pacific Railroad Company v. United States | 402 (1886) | Waite | None | None | Ct. Cl. | certiorari denied |
| Gibbons v. District of Columbia | 404 (1886) | Gray | None | None | Sup. Ct. D.C. | affirmed |
| Fletcher v. Hamlet | 408 (1886) | Waite | None | None | C.C.E.D. La. | affirmed |
| Eureka Lake and Yuba Canal Company v. Yuba County | 410 (1886) | Waite | None | None | Cal. | affirmed |
| O'Reilly v. Campbell | 418 (1886) | Field | None | None | Sup. Ct. Terr. Utah | affirmed |
| Carrick v. Lámar | 423 (1886) | Field | None | None | Sup. Ct. D.C. | affirmed |
| Coffey v. United States | 427 (1886) | Blatchford | None | None | C.C.D. Ky. | affirmed |
| Walling v. Michigan | 446 (1886) | Bradley | None | None | Mich. | reversed |
| London Assurance Company v. Drennen, Starr & Everett | 461 (1886) | Harlan | None | None | C.C.D. Minn. | affirmed |
| Pennsylvania Railroad Company v. St. Louis, Alton and Terre Haute Railroad Company | 472 (1886) | Waite | None | None | C.C.D. Ind. | continued |
| United States v. Redgrave | 474 (1886) | Matthews | None | None | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| United States v. Perkins | 483 (1886) | Matthews | None | None | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| Laughlin v. District of Columbia | 485 (1886) | Waite | None | None | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| Dunphy v. Ryan | 491 (1886) | Woods | None | None | Sup. Ct. Terr. Mont. | affirmed |
| Oberteuffer, Abegg and Daeniker v. Robertson, Collector of the Port of New York | 499 (1886) | Blatchford | None | None | C.C.S.D.N.Y. | reversed |
| Coe v. Town of Errol | 517 (1886) | Bradley | None | None | N.H. | affirmed |
| Iron Silver Mining Company v. Cheesman | 529 (1886) | Miller | None | None | C.C.D. Colo. | affirmed |
| Kentucky Central Railroad Company v. Bourbon County | 538 (1886) | Waite | None | None | Ky. | advancement denied |
| Chicago Tyre and Spring Works Company v. Spalding | 541 (1886) | Blatchford | None | None | C.C.N.D. Ill. | affirmed |
| Otis v. Oregon Steamship Company | 548 (1886) | Waite | None | None | N.Y. | dismissed |
| Barry v. Edmunds | 550 (1886) | Matthews | None | None | C.C.E.D. Va. | reversed |
| Chaffin v. Taylor | 567 (1886) | Matthews | None | None | Va. | reversed |
| Royall v. Virginia | 572 (1886) | Matthews | None | None | Va. | reversed |
| Sands v. Edmunds | 585 (1886) | Matthews | None | None | Va. | reversed |
| Hartog v. Memory | 588 (1886) | Waite | None | None | C.C.N.D. Ill. | reversed |
| Shepard v. Carrigan | 593 (1886) | Woods | None | None | C.C.D. Mass. | reversed |
| Ming v. Woolfolk | 599 (1886) | Woods | None | None | Sup. Ct. Terr. Mont. | affirmed |
| Liebke v. Thomas | 605 (1886) | Miller | None | None | Mo. Ct. App. | reversed |
| Jones and Weil v. Simpson | 609 (1886) | Harlan | None | None | C.C.D. Kan. | reversed |
| Boyd v. United States | 616 (1886) | Bradley | Miller | None | C.C.S.D.N.Y. | reversed |
| Northern Pacific Railway Company v. Herbert | 642 (1886) | Field | Harlan | Blatchford | Sup. Ct. Terr. Dakota | affirmed |
| Preston v. Manard | 661 (1886) | Gray | None | None | C.C.N.D. Ill. | affirmed |
| Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific Railway Company v. Dennis | 665 (1886) | Gray | None | Field | C.C.N.D. Ill. | affirmed |
| Higgins v. McCrea | 671 (1886) | Woods | None | None | C.C.N.D. Ohio | multiple |
| Reynolds v. Iron Silver Mining Company | 687 (1886) | Miller | None | Waite | C.C.D. Colo. | reversed |
| City of Waterville v. Van Slyke | 699 (1886) | Miller | None | None | C.C.D. Kan. | dismissed |