List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 14

This is a list of cases reported in volume 14 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1816.

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.

Henry Wheaton

Starting with the 14th volume of U.S. Reports, the Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States was Henry Wheaton. Wheaton was Reporter of Decisions from 1816 to 1827, covering volumes 14 through 25 of United States Reports which correspond to volumes 1 through 12 of his Wheaton's Reports. As such, the dual form of citation to, for example, Martin v. Hunter's Lessee is 14 U.S. 304.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of 14 U.S. (1 Wheat.)

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 14 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 14 U.S. (1 Wheat.)

''Martin v. Hunter's Lessee''

Martin v. Hunter's Lessee, , was the first case to assert ultimate Supreme Court authority over state courts in civil matters of federal law.

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 14 U.S. (1 Wheat.)

Case Name	Page and year	Opinion of the Court	Concurring opinion	Dissenting opinion	Lower Court	Disposition
Henry v. Ball		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Davis v. Wood		Marshall	none	none	not indicated	affirmed
The Samuel		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.R.I.	continued
The Octavia		Story	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	affirmed
The Mary and Susan I		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.N.Y.	affirmed
The Mary and Susan II		Johnson	none	none	C.C.D.N.Y.	affirmed
The Rugen		Livingston	none	none	C.C.D. Ga.	affirmed
Thompson v. Gray		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Anderson v. Longden		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
City of New Orleans v. Winter		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. La.	reversed
The Aurora		Story	none	none	C.C.D. Pa.	affirmed
The Venus		Story	Marshall	none	C.C.D. Ga.	certification
Preston v. Browder		Todd	none	none	C.C.D.E. Tenn.	affirmed
The Astrea		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Ga.	affirmed
Matson v. Hord		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Ky.	affirmed
Taylor v. Walton		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Ky.	reversed
Barr v. Lapsley		Johnson	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Danforth's Lessee v. Thomas		Todd	none	none	C.C.D.E. Tenn.	affirmed
The Antonia Johanna		Story	none	none	C.C.D.N.C.	affirmed
The Nereid		Marshall	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	certification
Hepburn v. Dunlop and Company		Washington	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
The St. Joze		Story	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	affirmed
Renner v. Marshall		Story	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Morean v. United States Insurance Company		Washington	none	none	C.C.D. Pa.	affirmed
Welch v. Mandeville		Story	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
L'Invincible		Johnson	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	affirmed
The Edward		Washington	none	Livingston	C.C.D. Mass.	affirmed
Mutual Assurance Society v. Watt's Executors		Johnson	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
Walden v. Gratz's Heirs		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Ky.	reversed
The Harrison		Story	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	certification
Harden v. Fisher		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.N.Y.	reversed
Martin v. Hunter's Lessee		Story	Johnson	none	Va.	affirmed
The Commercen		Story	Marshall; Livingston; Johnson	none	C.C.D. Mass.	affirmed
The George		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	certification
United States v. Coolidge		Johnson	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	certification
The St. Nicholas		Johnson	none	none	C.C.D. Ga.	multiple
Russel v. Transylvania University		Johnson	none	none	C.C.D. Ky.	affirmed
The Elsineur		per curiam	none	none	C.C.D. Ga.	certification
The Hiram		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	affirmed
Ammidon v. Smith		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.R.I.	certification
Jones v. Shore's Executors		Story	none	none	C.C.D. Va.	certification
Patton's Lessee v. Easton		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.W. Tenn.	certification
Ross v. Reed		Todd	none	none	C.C.D.E. Tenn.	affirmed