List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 2
This is a list of the 9 cases reported in volume 2 (2 Dall.) of "United States Reports" decided by the Supreme Court of the United States from August 1791 to February 1793. Case reports from other tribunals also appear in 2 U.S. (2 Dall.). Alexander Dallas and "Dallas Reports". Not all of the cases reported in 2 U.S. (2 Dall.) are from the United States Supreme Court. Included are decisions from various Pennsylvania appellate and trial courts, and from several federal courts. Alexander J. Dallas, a Philadelphia lawyer and later  United States Secretary of the Treasury, had been in the business of reporting local law cases for newspapers and periodicals. When the US Supreme Court sat in Philadelphia from 1791–1800, he collected their cases as well, and later began compiling his case reports in a bound volume which he called Reports of cases ruled and adjudged in the courts of Pennsylvania, before and since the Revolution. When the US Supreme Court along with the rest of the new federal government moved in 1791 from the former capital, New York City, to the nation's temporary capital in Philadelphia, Dallas was  appointed the Supreme Court's first unofficial and unpaid Supreme Court Reporter. (Court reporters in that age received no salary, but were expected to profit from the publication and sale of their compiled decisions.) Dallas continued to collect and publish Pennsylvania and other decisions, adding federal Supreme Court cases to his reports. Dallas published four volumes of decisions during his tenure as Reporter, known as the "Dallas Reports". The Supreme Court moved to the new capital city of Washington D.C. in 1800. Dallas remained in Philadelphia; William Cranch then replaced him as Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of  the United States. Nominative Reports. In 1874, the U.S. government created the "United States Reports", and retroactively numbered older privately-published case reports as part of the new series. As a result, cases appearing in volumes 1–90 of "U.S. Reports" have dual citation forms; one for the volume number of "U.S. Reports", and one for the volume number of the reports named for the relevant reporter of decisions (these are called "nominative reports"). As such, volumes 1–4 of "United States Reports" correspond to volumes 1–4 of "Dallas Reports". The dual citation form of, for example, "Oswald v. New York" is  2 U.S. (2 Dall.) 401 (1791). Courts in 2 U.S. (2 Dall.). The cases reported in 2 U.S. (2 Dall.) come from the Pennsylvania High Court of Errors and Appeals (which from its creation in 1780 to its dissolution in 1808 was the court of last resort in the Pennsylvania judiciary); Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas; Supreme Court of the United States; United States Court of Appeals in Cases of Capture; United States Circuit Court for the District of Pennsylvania. Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of 2 U.S. (2 Dall.). 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 2 U.S. (2 Dall.) were decided, the Court comprised these six justices: ! Portrait !! Justice !! Office !! Home State !! Succeeded !! Date confirmed by the Senate(Vote) !! Tenure on Supreme Court