List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 10

This is a list of cases reported in volume 10 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1810.

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.

William Cranch

Starting with the 5th volume of U.S. Reports, the Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States was William Cranch. Cranch was Reporter of Decisions from 1801 to 1815, covering volumes 5 through 13 of United States Reports which correspond to volumes 1 through 9 of his Cranch's Reports. As such, the complete citation to, for example, Field v. Holland is 10 U.S. 8.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of 10 U.S. (6 Cranch)

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. Since 1789 Congress has varied the size of the Court from six to seven, nine, ten, and back to nine justices.
When the cases in 10 U.S. were decided, the Court comprised these seven justices:

Portrait	Justice	Office	Home State	Succeeded	Date confirmed by the Senate	Tenure on Supreme Court
	John Marshall	Chief Justice	Virginia	Oliver Ellsworth		– July 6, 1835
	William Cushing	Associate Justice	Massachusetts	original seat established		– September 13, 1810
	Samuel Chase	Associate Justice	Maryland	John Blair, Jr.		– June 19, 1811
	Bushrod Washington	Associate Justice	Virginia	James Wilson		– November 26, 1829
	William Johnson	Associate Justice	South Carolina	Alfred Moore		– August 4, 1834
	Henry Brockholst Livingston	Associate Justice	New York	William Paterson		– March 18, 1823
	Thomas Todd	Associate Justice	Kentucky	new seat		– February 7, 1826

Notable cases in 10 U.S. (6 Cranch)

''Fletcher v. Peck''

In Fletcher v. Peck, , for the first time the Court held a state law to be unconstitutional 137. The Court in Fletcher helped create a line of precedents supporting the sanctity of contracts, and hinted that Native Americans did not hold complete title to their own lands.

''Tyler v. Tuel''

In Tyler v. Tuel, , the Court held that an assignee of a geographically limited patent right could not bring an action in the assignee's own name. It was the first published Supreme Court decision on patent law. Like other Supreme Court patent cases prior to Evans v. Eaton, , however, it did not deal with substantive patent law, but only with the law of patent assignment.

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 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. 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 10 U.S. (6 Cranch)

Case Name	Page and year	Opinion of the Court	Concurring opinion	Dissenting opinion	Lower court	Disposition
Scott v. Ben		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
Field v. Holland		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Ga.	affirmed
Maryland Insurance Company v. Woods		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	reversed
Young v. Grundy		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Ky.	dismissed
Ex parte Wilson		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	habeas corpus denied
Oneale v. Thornton		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
King v. Delaware Insurance Company		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Pa.	affirmed
Lewis v. Harwood		Livingston	none	none	C.C.D. Va.	reversed
Riddle and Company v. Mandeville		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	certification
Fletcher v. Peck		Marshall	Johnson	none	C.C.D. Md.	affirmed
Massie v. Watts		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Ky.	affirmed
United States v. Hall		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Pa.	affirmed
Campbell v. Gordon		Washington	none	none	C.C.D. Va.	affirmed
M'Knight v. Craig's Administrator		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
Kennedy v. Brent		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Korn v. Mutual Assurance Society		Johnson	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Atkinson v. Mutual Assurance Society		Johnson	none	none	not indicated	reversed
Stewart v. Anderson		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
The Ship Helen		per curiam	none	none	not indicated	affirmed
Marine Insurance Company v. Hodgson		Livingston	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Slacum v. Pomery		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	certification
Vasse v. Smith		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
Custiss v. Georgetown and Alexandria Turnpike Company		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
Lodge's Lessee v. Lee		per curiam	none	none	not indicated	affirmed
Finley v. Lynn		Marshall	Todd	Todd	C.C.D.C.	reversed
De Butts v. Bacon		per curiam	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Sheehy v. Mandeville		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
Skillern's Executors v. May's Executors		per curiam	none	none	C.C.D. Ky.	remanded
Chesapeake Insurance Company v. Stark		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	reversed
Livingston v. Maryland Insurance Company		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	reversed
Hudson v. Guestier		Livingston	Todd	Marshall	C.C.D. Md.	affirmed
Smith v. Maryland ex rel. Caroll		Washington	none	none	Md.	affirmed
Durousseau v. United States		Marshall	Livingston, Johnson	none	D. Orleans	reversed
Tyler v. Tuel		per curiam	none	none	C.C.D. Vt.	arrest of judgment
The Schooner Juliana		per curiam	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	reversed
The Schooner Rachel		per curiam	none	none	D. Orleans	certification
The Brigantine Amiable Lucy		per curiam	none	none	D. Orleans	reversed
Sere v. Pitot		Marshall	none	none	D. Orleans	affirmed
Maryland Insurance Company v. Ruden's Administrator		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	affirmed