List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 144

This is a list of cases reported in volume 144 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1892.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 144 U.S.

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 volume 144 U.S. were decided the Court comprised the following eight members :

Portrait	Justice	Office	Home State	Succeeded	Date confirmed by the Senate	Tenure on Supreme Court
	Melville Fuller	Chief Justice	Illinois	Morrison Waite		– July 4, 1910
	Stephen Johnson Field	Associate Justice	California	newly created seat		– December 1, 1897
	John Marshall Harlan	Associate Justice	Kentucky	David Davis		– October 14, 1911
	Horace Gray	Associate Justice	Massachusetts	Nathan Clifford		– September 15, 1902
	Samuel Blatchford	Associate Justice	New York	Ward Hunt		– July 7, 1893
	Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar	Associate Justice	Mississippi	William Burnham Woods		– January 23, 1893
	David Josiah Brewer	Associate Justice	Kansas	Stanley Matthews		– March 28, 1910
	Henry Billings Brown	Associate Justice	Michigan	Samuel Freeman Miller		– May 28, 1906

Notable Cases in 144 U.S.

''United States v. Ballin''

United States v. Ballin, , is a Supreme Court decision discussing the constitutional definition of "a quorum to do business" in Congress. The Court, analyzing the constitutional limitations on the United States Senate and House of Representatives when determining their rules of proceedings, held that it fell within the powers of the House and Senate to establish their own rules for verifying whether a majority of their members is present, as required for a quorum under Article I of the Constitution.

''Lau Ow Bew v. United States''

Lau Ow Bew v. United States, , is a case occurring at the beginning of the era of Chinese Exclusion as well as the formation of the United States courts of appeals. The case set precedents for the interpretation of the rights of Chinese merchants and the jurisdiction of the new courts. The Supreme Court's ruling relied heavily the Burlingame Treaty of 1868, the Angell Treaty of 1880, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the amendments to the Act in 1884, as well as the Evarts Act of 1891. The case helped to establish not only the rights of the Chinese merchant class, but also informed future cases about the power of the Circuit Courts of Appeal as well as the perception of Chinese immigrants.

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.
The Judiciary Act of 1891 created the United States Courts of Appeals and reassigned the jurisdiction of most routine appeals from the district and circuit courts to these appellate courts. The Act created nine new courts that were originally known as the "United States Circuit Courts of Appeals." The new courts had jurisdiction over most appeals of lower court decisions. The Supreme Court could review either legal issues that a court of appeals certified or decisions of court of appeals by writ of certiorari.
Bluebook citation style is used for case names, citations, and jurisdictions.

"# Cir." = United States Court of Appeals
* e.g., "3d Cir." = United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
"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 volume 144 U.S.

Case Name	Page & year	Opinion of the Court	Concurring opinion	Dissenting opinion	Lower Court	Disposition
United States v. Ballin		Brewer	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	reversed
Ansonia B. & C. Co. v. Electrical S. Co.		Brown	none	none	C.C.D. Conn.	affirmed
Larkin v. Upton		Brewer	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. Mont.	affirmed
United States v. Wilson		Lamar	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Heinze v. Arthur's Ex'rs		Blatchford	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	reversed
Liebenroth v. Robertson		Blatchford	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	reversed
Wilson v. Seligman		Gray	none	none	C.C.E.D. Mo.	affirmed
Lau Ow Bew v. United States		Fuller	none	none	9th Cir.	reversed
Butler v. National Home		Harlan	none	Brown	C.C.D. Mass.	reversed
Kent v. Lake Superior et al. Co.		Fuller	none	none	C.C.E.D.N.Y.	affirmed
In re Heath		Fuller	none	none	Sup. Ct. D.C.	dismissed
Gordon v. Third Nat'l Bank		Fuller	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ala.	affirmed
Camden v. Stuart		Brown	none	none	C.C.D.W. Va.	affirmed
Lacassagne v. Chapuis		Blatchford	none	none	C.C.W.D. La.	affirmed
Tripp v. Santa Rosa St. R.R. Co.		Fuller	none	none	Cal.	dismissed
Haley v. Breeze		Fuller	none	none	Colo.	dismissed
Southern K. Ry. Co. v. Briscoe		Fuller	none	none	C.C.W.D. Ark.	affirmed
Dillman v. Hastings		Fuller	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ohio	reversed
Bedon v. Davie		Blatchford	none	none	C.C.D.S.C.	affirmed
United States v. Budd		Brewer	none	Brown	C.C.D. Wash.	affirmed
City of Brenham v. German Am. Bank I		Blatchford	none	Harlan	C.C.W.D. Tex.	reversed
Rice v. Sanger		Fuller	none	none	Kan.	dismissed
Sherman v. Grinnell		Fuller	none	none	New York City Ct.	dismissed
Columbia et al. R.R. Co. v. Hawthorne		Gray	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. Wash.	reversed
Red River C. Co. v. Sully		Fuller	none	none	C.C.N.D. Tex.	affirmed
Missouri ex rel. Quincy et al. R.R. Co. v. Harris		Fuller	none	none	Mo.	dismissed
Glaspell v. Northern Pacific Railroad Co.		Fuller	none	none	C.C.D.N.D.	reversed
Pope Mfg. Co. v. Gormully I		Brown	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
Pope Mfg. Co. v. Gormully II		Brown	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
Pope Mfg. Co. v. Gormully III		Brown	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
Pope Mfg. Co. v. Gormully IV		Brown	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
McLane v. King		Brewer	none	none	C.C.W.D. Tex.	affirmed
Logan v. United States		Gray	none	Lamar	C.C.N.D. Tex.	reversed
United States v. Sanges		Gray	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ga.	dismissed
O'Neil v. Vermont		Blatchford	none	Field	Vt.	dismissed
The Blue Jacket		Blatchford	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. Wash.	affirmed
Waterman v. Banks		Harlan	none	none	C.C.N.D. Cal.	reversed
Porter v. Banks		per curiam	none	none	C.C.N.D. Cal.	reversed
Grand Trunk Ry. Co. v. Ives		Lamar	none	none	C.C.E.D. Mich.	affirmed
Keator L. Co. v. Thompson		Harlan	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
Hartford L.A. Ins. Co. v. Unsell		Harlan	none	none	C.C.E.D. Mo.	affirmed
Dodge v. Tulleys		Brewer	none	none	C.C.D. Neb.	affirmed
Northern Pacific Railroad v. Ellis		Fuller	none	none	Wis.	dismissed
Northern Pacific Railroad v. Amato		Blatchford	none	Brewer	2d Cir.	affirmed
Chateaugay O. & I. Co. v. Blake		Brewer	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Belford v. Scribner		Blatchford	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
Smith v. Gale		Brown	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. Dakota	affirmed
Torrence v. Shedd		Gray	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	reversed
Sharon v. Tucker		Field	none	none	Sup. Ct. D.C.	reversed
Stellwagen v. Tucker		per curiam	none	none	Sup. Ct. D.C.	reversed
City of Brenham v. German Am. Bank II		per curiam	none	none	C.C.W.D. Tex.	rehearing denied
Coosaw M. Co. v. South Carolina		Harlan	none	none	C.C.D.S.C.	affirmed
Kellam v. Keith		Fuller	none	none	C.C.D. Kan.	reversed
Macon Cnty.		Fuller	none	none	C.C.E.D. Mo.	affirmed
National E. Bank v. Peters		Fuller	none	none	C.C.E.D. Va.	dismissed
Brown v. Massachusetts		Gray	none	none	Mass. Super. Ct.	dismissed
Windett v. Union M.L. Ins. Co.		Gray	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
Crawford v. Neal		Fuller	none	none	C.C.D. Or.	affirmed
Meyerheim v. Robertson		Blatchford	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Robertson v. Salomon		Blatchford	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	reversed
Nesbit v. Riverside Ind. Dist.		Brewer	none	none	C.C.N.D. Iowa	affirmed
Crotty v. Union M.L. Ins. Co.		Brewer	none	none	C.C.N.D. Cal.	affirmed
White v. Rankin		Blatchford	none	none	C.C.N.D. Cal.	reversed
Pendleton v. Russell		Field	none	none	N.Y. Sup. Ct.	affirmed
Sage v. Louisiana Bd. of Liquidation		Field	none	none	La.	dismissed
Adams v. Louisiana Bd. of Liquidation		Field	none	none	La.	dismissed
Roberts v. Lewis		Gray	none	none	C.C.D. Neb.	reversed
Kendall v. San Juan S.M. Co.		Field	none	none	Colo.	affirmed
Gregory v. Boston S.D. & T. Co.		Harlan	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	decree modified
Underwood v. Metropolitan Nat'l Bank		Blatchford	none	none	C.C.W.D. Mo.	affirmed
United States v. Eaton		Blatchford	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	certification