| Case name |
Citation |
Summary |
| Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad v. Minnesota |
1890 |
states and railway fees |
| Hans v. Louisiana |
1890 |
sovereign immunity of states, interpreting the Eleventh Amendment |
| Davis v. Beason |
1890 |
United States federal courts have jurisdiction to hear charges related to polygamy even though it be part of a religious belief |
| Botiller v. Dominguez |
1889 |
validity of Spanish and Mexican land grants within the Mexican Cession |
| Dent v. West Virginia |
1889 |
state licensing of doctors |
| Kidd v. Pearson |
1888 |
Scope of the Commerce Clause |
| The Telephone Cases |
1888 |
patent law |
| Runkle v. United States |
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 |
| Ker v. Illinois |
1886 |
legality of abduction of criminal suspect abroad |
| Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Company v. Illinois |
1886 |
regulation of interstate commerce by individual states, creation of ICC |
| Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad |
1886 |
corporate personhood |
| United States v. Kagama |
1886 |
federal court jurisdiction over crimes committed on Indian reservations |
| Yick Wo v. Hopkins |
1886 |
equal protection, racially-neutral laws administered in a discriminatory manner |
| Railroad Commission Cases |
1886 |
contracts, police power, regulation of transport |
| Flagg v. Walker |
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. |
| Maxwell's Executors v. Wilkinson |
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 |
| Camp v. United States |
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 |
| Schmieder v. Barney |
1885 |
case regarding description of articles subject to duty |
| Kansas Pacific R. Co. v. Dunmeyer |
1885 |
Land ownership dispute |
| Winona & St. Peter R. Co. v. Barney |
1885 |
Public land grant for Railroad construction |