Case name |
Citation |
Summary |
Interstate Commerce Commission v. Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway Co. |
1897 |
powers of an administrative agency |
United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Association |
1897 |
railroads and rate fixing |
United States v. Ball |
1896 |
double jeopardy |
Plessy v. Ferguson |
1896 |
segregation; "separate but equal" |
Talton v. Mayes |
1896 |
individual rights in U.S. Constitution not applicable to tribal governments |
Geer v. Connecticut |
1896 |
states owned the wild animals within their borders and can strictly regulate their management and harvest |
Rosen v. United States |
1896 |
defendant's ability to inspect evidence at obscenity trial overcame objection that indictment was too vague |
Hilton v. Guyot |
1895 |
doctrine of comity |
Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. |
1895 |
income tax and tariffs |
In re Debs |
1895 |
strikes and interstate commerce |
Coffin v. United States |
1895 |
the presumption of innocence |
Sparf v. United States |
1895 |
jury instructions |
United States v. E. C. Knight Co. |
1895 |
antitrust action; “Sugar Trust Case” |
Schillinger v. United States |
1894 |
sovereign immunity forbids suit against the Federal government for patent infringement |
Nix v. Hedden |
1893 |
status of the tomato as fruit or vegetable under Tariff Act of 1883 |
Illinois Central Railroad v. Illinois |
1892 |
railroad land dispute, public trust doctrine |
Holy Trinity Church v. United States |
1892 |
contracts with foreign citizens, religion |
In re Ross |
1891 |
application of U.S. law to foreign sailors on U.S. flagged ships while in another country |
LDS Church v. United States |
1890 |
upheld revocation of LDS Church charter and confiscation of church property |
In re Neagle |
1890 |
authority of the U.S. Attorney General to appoint U.S. Marshals as bodyguards to Supreme Court Justices |