# List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Waite Court

This is a partial chronological list of cases decided by the United States Supreme Court during the tenure of Chief Justice Morrison Waite from March 4, 1874, through March 23, 1888.
| Case name | Citation | Summary |
| Totten v. United States | 92 U.S. 105 (1875) | Jurisdiction over espionage agreements. |
| Rubber-Tip Pencil Co. v. Howard | 87 U.S. 498 (1874) | Patent eligibility of abstract ideas. |
| Murdock v. City of Memphis | 87 U.S. 590 (1875) | Jurisdiction over state court decisions. |
| Minor v. Happersett | 88 U.S. 162 (1875) | Fourteenth Amendment and the right of women to vote. |
| Kohl v. United States | 91 U.S. 367 (1875) | Eminent domain. |
| Phillips v. Payne | 92 U.S. 105 (1875) | Validity of retrocession of Alexandria County from the District of Columbia to Virginia. |
| United States v. Reese | 92 U.S. 214 (1876) | Fifteenth Amendment and the right to vote. |
| Chy Lung v. Freeman | 92 U.S. 275 (1876) | Federal power to set rules surrounding immigration. |
| United States v. Cruikshank | 92 U.S. 542 (1875) | Application of the First and Second Amendments to the states. |
| Munn v. Illinois | 94 U.S. 113 (1876) | Corporations and agricultural regulation. |
| Cochrane v. Deener | 94 U.S. 780 (1876) | Patent eligibility of processes. |
| Mobile Life Insurance Co. v. Brame | 95 U.S. 754 (1877) | Cause for civil action for murder at common law and the Civil Code of Louisiana. |
| Pennoyer v. Neff | 95 U.S. 714 (1877) | Bases of personal jurisdiction over defendants. |
| Davidson v. City of New Orleans | 96 U.S. 97 (1878) | Procedural requirements of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause. |
| City of Elizabeth v. American Nicholson Pavement Co. | 97 U.S. 126 (1878) | Experimental use exception to the on-sale bar in United States patent law. |
| United States v. Throckmorton | 98 U.S. 61 (1878) | Intrinsic and extrinsic fraud distinguished. |
| Reynolds v. United States | 98 U.S. 145 (1878) | Polygamy and freedom of religion. |
| Wilkerson v. Utah | 99 U.S. 130 (1878) | Capital punishment. |
| Trade-Mark Cases | 100 U.S. 82 (1879) | Copyright Clause does not give Congress the power to regulate trademarks. |
| Baker v. Selden | 101 U.S. 99 (1879) | Differences between copyright & patent law. |
| Strauder v. West Virginia | 100 U.S. 303 (1880) | Exclusion of blacks from juries. |
| Springer v. United States | 102 U.S. 586 (1881) | Constitutionality of income tax set up by the Revenue Act of 1864. |
| Kilbourn v. Thompson | 103 U.S. 168 (1880) | Limitations on Congressional investigations. |
| Egbert v. Lippmann | 104 U.S. 333 (1881) | Early case concerning the on-sale bar in patent law. |
| United States v. McBratney | 104 U.S. 621 (1881) | Congress must explicitly reserve jurisdiction over Native American lands when admitting a State to the union. |
| United States v. Lee | 106 U.S. 196 (1882) | Federal sovereign immunity does not extend to government officers. |
| Ex parte Curtis | 106 U.S. 371 (1882) | Constitutionality of a law prohibiting government officers from requesting, giving to, or receiving from other government officers any amount of money for political purposes. |
| Pace v. Alabama | 106 U.S. 583 (1883) | Affirmed that Alabama's anti-miscegenation statute banning interracial marriage and interracial sex was not a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. |
| United States v. Harris (the Ku Klux Case) | 106 U.S. 629 (1883) | No Congressional power to pass ordinary criminal statutes. |
| Civil Rights Cases | 109 U.S. 3 (1883) | Power of federal government to prohibit racial discrimination by private parties. |
| Ex parte Crow Dog | 109 U.S. 556 (1883) | Repeal of law dealing with Native American Indians requires express language by Congress. |
| Kellogg Bridge Co. v. Hamilton | 110 U.S. 108 (1884) | An implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose exists when the seller is also the manufacturer. |
| Juilliard v. Greenman | 110 U.S. 421 (1884) | Constitutionality of issuing greenbacks as legal tender. |
| Hurtado v. California | 110 U.S. 516 (1884) | No requirement under the Fourteenth Amendment that states use a grand jury to indict a defendant in a murder prosecution. |
| Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony | 111 U.S. 53 (1884) | Copyrightability of photographs. |
| New England Mutual Life Insurance Co. v. Woodworth | 111 U.S. 138 (1884) | insurance law |
| Elk v. Wilkins | 112 U.S. 94 (1884) | Native Americans born on Indian reservations are not entitled to birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment's Citizenship Clause. |
| Head Money Cases | 112 U.S. 580 (1884) | Acts of Congress affecting the enforcement, modification, or repeal of treaties are constitutional. |
| Cole v. La Grange | 113 U.S. 1 (1885) | The court held that the Missouri legislature could not authorize a city to issue bonds to assist corporations in their private business. |
| Head v. Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. | 113 U.S. 9 (1885) | |
| Barbier v. Connolly | 113 U.S. 27 (1885) | |
| Liverpool, New York & Philadelphia Steamship Co. v. Commissioners of Emigration | 113 U.S. 33 (1885) | |
| Davison v. Von Lingen | 113 U.S. 40 (1885) | |
| Drennen v. London Assurance Co. | 113 U.S. 51 (1885) | |
| Hollister v. Benedict & Burnham Manufacturing Co. | 113 U.S. 59 (1885) | |
| Hess v. Reynolds | 113 U.S. 73 (1885) | |
| Polleys v. Black River Improvement Co. | 113 U.S. 81 (1885) | |
| Pullman Palace Car Co. v. Speck | 113 U.S. 84 (1885) | |
| Griffith v. Godey | 113 U.S. 89 (1885) | |
| Rowell v. Lindsay | 113 U.S. 97 (1885) | |
| Findlay v. McAllister | 113 U.S. 104 (1885) | |
| Central Railroad & Banking Co. of Ga. v. Pettus | 113 U.S. 116 (1885) | An appeal regarding monies owed and a lein upon the roadbed, depots, side tracks, turnouts, trestles, and bridges owned and used by the appellants. |
| Steele v. United States | 113 U.S. 128 (1885) | |
| Clawson v. United States | 113 U.S. 143 (1885) | |
| Bicknell v. Comstock | 113 U.S. 149 (1885) | |
| United States v. Mueller | 113 U.S. 153 (1885) | |
| Consolidated Safety-Valve Co. v. Crosby Steam Gauge & Valve Co. | 113 U.S. 157 (1885) | |
| Bryan v. Kennett | 113 U.S. 179 (1885) | |
| Northern Liberty Market Co. v. Kelly | 113 U.S. 199 (1885) | |
| Tucker v. Masser | 113 U.S. 203 (1885) | |
| Cardwell v. American Bridge Co. | 113 U.S. 205 (1885) | |
| Voss v. Fisher | 113 U.S. 213 (1885) | |
| Price v. Pennsylvania Railroad Co. | 113 U.S. 218 (1885) | |
| Dakota County v. Glidden | 113 U.S. 222 (1885) | |
| Caillot v. Deetken | 113 U.S. 215 (1885) | |
| Cheong Ah Moy v. United States | 113 U.S. 216 (1885) | |
| Anderson County Commissioners v. Beal | 113 U.S. 227 (1885) | |
| Harvey v. United States | 113 U.S. 243 (1885) | |
| Central Railroad Co. of New Jersey v. Mills | 113 U.S. 249 (1885) | |
| Presser v. Illinois | 116 U.S. 252 (1886) | |
| Looney v. District of Columbia | 113 U.S. 258 (1885) | |
| Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Co. v. United States | 113 U.S. 261 (1885) | |
| Coon v. Wilson | 113 U.S. 268 (1885) | |
| Spaids v. Cooley | 113 U.S. 278 (1885) | |
| Sully v. Drennan | 113 U.S. 287 (1885) | |
| Avegno v. Schmidt | 113 U.S. 293 (1885) | title to mortgaged property confiscated by the U.S. government during the Civil War |
| Stone v. Chisolm | 113 U.S. 302 (1885) | |
| Thornley v. United States | 113 U.S. 310 (1885) | |
| Baylis v. Travellers' Ins. Co. | 113 U.S. 316 (1885) | right to trial by jury in a civil case |
| Pneumatic Gas Co. v. Berry | 113 U.S. 322 (1885) | |
| Ex parte Bigelow | 113 U.S. 328 (1885) | |
| City of Quincy v. Jackson | 113 U.S. 332 (1885) | |
| Town of Santa Anna v. Frank | 113 U.S. 339 (1885) | |
| McArthur v. Scott | 113 U.S. 340 (1885) | |
| Cannon v. United States | 118 U.S. 355 (1885) | |
| Hyatt v. Vincennes National Bank | 113 U.S. 408 (1885) | |
| United States v. Jordan | 113 U.S. 418 (1885) | |
| Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. v. Crane | 113 U.S. 424 (1885) | |
| Prentice v. Stearns | 113 U.S. 435 (1885) | |
| Morgan v. Hamlet | 113 U.S. 449 (1885) | |
| Chase v. Curtis | 113 U.S. 452 (1885) | |
| St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Berry | 113 U.S. 465 (1885) | |
| Morgan v. United States | 113 U.S. 476 (1885) | |
| Provident Institution for Savings v. Mayor of Jersey City | 113 U.S. 506 (1885) | |
| Union Pacific Railway Co. v. Cheyenne | 113 U.S. 516 (1885) | |
| Erhardt v. Boaro, (113 U.S. 527) | 113 U.S. 527 (1885) | |
| Erhardt v. Boaro, (113 U.S. 537) | 113 U.S. 537 (1885) | |
| Richards v. Mackall | 113 U.S. 539 (1885) | |
| Peugh v. Davis | 113 U.S. 542 (1885) | |
| Gumbel v. Pitkin | 113 U.S. 545 (1885) | |
| Fussell v. Gregg | 113 U.S. 550 (1885) | |
| City of St. Louis v. Myers | 113 U.S. 566 (1885) | |
| Brown v. United States | 113 U.S. 568 (1885) | |
| Chicago Life Insurance Co. v. Needles | 113 U.S. 574 (1885) | |
| Pearce v. Ham | 113 U.S. 585 (1885) | |
| Ayers v. Watson | 113 U.S. 594 (1885) | |
| California Artificial Stone Paving Co. v. Molitor | 113 U.S. 609 (1885) | Patent infringement case on an improvement in concrete paving |
| Winona & St. Peter R. Co. v. Barney | 113 U.S. 618 (1885) | Public land grant for Railroad construction |
| Kansas Pacific R. Co. v. Dunmeyer | 113 U.S. 629 (1885) | Land ownership dispute |
| Schmieder v. Barney | 113 U.S. 645 (1885) | case regarding description of articles subject to duty |
| Camp v. United States | 113 U.S. 648 (1885) | case to recover an alleged balance due as compensation for collecting and delivering to the United States a large amount of cotton in bales which was captured and abandoned property |
| Maxwell's Executors v. Wilkinson | 113 U.S. 656 (1885) | writ of error brought by the executors of a former collector of the port of New York to reverse a judgment in an action brought against him by the defendant in error to recover duties paid by them on imported iron |
| Flagg v. Walker | 113 U.S. 659 (1885) | case where the deeds for several parcels of land were transferred from Flagg, who was in financial difficulty, to Walker in return for paying off Flagg's debts and profits from the sale against a mortgage for other property owned by Flagg. |
| Blake v. City and County of San Francisco | 113 U.S. 679 (1885) | |
| Fourth National Bank of St. Louis v. Stout | 113 U.S. 684 (1885) | |
| Boyer v. Boyer | 113 U.S. 689 (1885) | |
| Soon Hing v. Crowley | 113 U.S. 703 (1885) | |
| United States v. Indianapolis & St. Louis Railroad Co. | 113 U.S. 711 (1885) | |
| Ex parte Fisk | 113 U.S. 713 (1885) | |
| Cooper Manufacturing Co. v. Ferguson | 113 U.S. 727 (1885) | |
| Carter v. Burr | 113 U.S. 737 (1885) | |
| Gregory v. Hartley | 113 U.S. 742 (1885) | |
| United States v. Steever | 113 U.S. 747 (1885) | Prize amounts under the Prize Act of 1864. |
| Hardin v. Boyd | 113 U.S. 756 (1885) | |
| Presser v. Illinois | 116 U.S. 252 (1886) | Application of the Second Amendment to the states. |
| Railroad Commission Cases | 116 U.S. 307 (1886) | contracts, police power, regulation of transport |
| Boyd v. United States | 116 U.S. 616 (1886) | A law compelling a person to produce an invoice or other papers is an unconstitutional search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment and unconstitutionally compelled self-incrimination under the Fifth Amendment. |
| Yick Wo v. Hopkins | 118 U.S. 356 (1886) | The Equal Protection Clause protects noncitizens from discriminatory state legislation; Facially neutral laws may still violate the Equal Protection Clause if enforced in a discriminatory manner. |
| United States v. Kagama | 118 U.S. 375 (1886) | Federal court jurisdiction over crimes committed on Indian reservations |
| Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad | 118 U.S. 394 (1886) | Corporate personhood. |
| Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Company v. Illinois | 118 U.S. 557 (1886) | Regulation of interstate commerce by individual states. |
| Ker v. Illinois | 119 U.S. 436 (1886) | Legality of abduction of criminal suspect abroad. |
| Ex parte Bain | 121 U.S. 1 (1887) | Federal indictments cannot be changed without resubmission to a grand jury. |
| Runkle v. United States | 122 U.S. 543 (1887) | The president cannot delegate the power vested in him to pass finally upon the sentence when he is the only person to whom has been committed the judicial power of making a final determination. |
| The Telephone Cases | 126 U.S. 1 (1888) | Patent law. |