List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 12

This is a list of cases reported in volume 12 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1814.

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 dual form of citation to, for example, Hall v. Leigh is 12 U.S. 50.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of 12 U.S. (8 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 12 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
	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
	Gabriel Duvall	Associate Justice	Maryland	Samuel Chase		– January 12, 1835
	Joseph Story	Associate Justice	Massachusetts	William Cushing		– September 10, 1845

Notable case in 12 U.S. (8 Cranch)

''United States v. 1960 Bags of Coffee''

United States v. 1960 Bags of Coffee, , is an example of a case in rem. In rem jurisdiction is a legal term describing the power a court may exercise over property or a "status" against a person over whom the court does not have in personam jurisdiction. Jurisdiction in rem assumes the property or status is the primary object of the action, rather than personal liabilities not necessarily associated with the property. In this case the coffee had been seized for being imported in violation of the Non-Intercourse Act of 1809.

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 12 U.S. (8 Cranch)

Case Name	Page and year	Opinion of the Court	Concurring opinion	Dissenting opinion	Lower Court	Disposition
Griffith v. Frazier		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.S.C.	affirmed
Van Ness v. Forrest		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Bank of Alexandria v. Herbet		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Marcardier v. Chesapeake Insurance Company		Story	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	reversed
Hall v. Leigh		Livingston	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	reversed
City of Alexandria v. Preston		per curiam	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Pleasants v. Maryland Insurance Company		Johnson	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	reversed
McCall v. Marine Insurance Company		Story	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	affirmed
Smith v. Edrington		Washington	none	none	C.C.D. Va.	affirmed
Beale v. Thompson		Story	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Clementson v. Williams		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Gracie v. Marine Insurance Company		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	affirmed
Richards v. Maryland Insurance Company		Johnson	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	affirmed
Gracie v. Maryland Insurance Company		per curiam	none	none	not indicated	affirmed
Crowell v. M'Fadon		Duvall	none	none	Mass.	reversed
Beatty's Administrators v. Burnes's Administrators		Story	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Harford v. United States		Story	none	none	C.C.D.S.C.	affirmed
Brown v. United States		Marshall	none	Story	C.C.D. Mass.	reversed
The Rapid		Johnson	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	affirmed
The Alexander		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	affirmed
The Julia		Story	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	affirmed
The Aurora		Livingston	none	none	C.C.D.R.I.	affirmed
The Adventure		Johnson	none	none	C.C.D. Va.	reversed
Green v. Liter		Story	none	none	C.C.D.R.I.	certification
Carter's Heirs v. Cutting		Story	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
The Venus		Washington	Story, Marshall	none	C.C.D. Mass.	multiple
The Merrimack		Marshall	Story	Story	C.C.D. Md.	multiple
The Frances I		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.R.I.	affirmed
The Frances II		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.R.I.	certification
The Frances III		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.R.I.	certification
The Frances IV		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.R.I.	affirmed
The Frances V		Washington	none	none	C.C.D.R.I.	affirmed
The Frances VI		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.R.I.	affirmed
Vowles v. Craig		Todd	none	none	C.C.D. Ky.	affirmed
The Sally		Story	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	affirmed
The Euphrates		Livingston	none	none	C.C.D.R.I.	affirmed
The Mary		per curiam	none	none	C.C.D.R.I.	certification
United States v. 1960 Bags of Coffee		Johnson	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	reversed
The Brigantine Mars		Johnson	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	reversed
The Frances VII		Washington	none	Livingston	C.C.D.R.I.	affirmed
The Thomas Gibbons		Story	none	none	C.C.D. Ga.	affirmed
Prince v. Bartlett		Duvall	none	none	Mass.	affirmed
The St. Lawrence		Livingston	none	none	C.C.D.N.H.	affirmed
The Hiram		Washington	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	reversed
The Joseph		Washington	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	affirmed
The Grotius		Washington	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	certification
Alexander v. Pendleton		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Pratt v. Carroll		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed