List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 154

This is a list of cases reported in volume 154 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1894; atypically, more than two hundred other Supreme Court opinions from earlier years also appear within the volume.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 154 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.
The opinions in cases from 1852–83 in volume 154 were written by various current and former justices. When the cases, from 1894, in the volume were decided the Court comprised the following nine 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
	David Josiah Brewer	Associate Justice	Kansas	Stanley Matthews		– March 28, 1910
	Henry Billings Brown	Associate Justice	Michigan	Samuel Freeman Miller		– May 28, 1906
	George Shiras Jr.	Associate Justice	Pennsylvania	Joseph P. Bradley		– February 23, 1903
	Howell Edmunds Jackson	Associate Justice	Tennessee	Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar		– August 8, 1895
	Edward Douglass White	Associate Justice	Louisiana	Samuel Blatchford		– December 18, 1910

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 154 U.S. decided in 1894

Case Name	Page and year	Opinion of the Court	Concurring opinion	Dissenting opinion	Lower Court	Disposition
Primrose v. Western Union Telegraph Company		Gray	none	none	C.C.E.D. Pa.	affirmed
Scott v. McNeal		Gray	none	none	Wash.	reversed
Constable v. National Steamship Company		Brown	none	Jackson	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Dunham v. Dennison Manufacturing Company		Gray	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Morrison v. Watson		Gray	none	none	N.C.	dismissed
In re Lockwood		Fuller	none	none	Va.	mandamus denied
The Haytian Republic		White	none	none	9th Cir.	reversed
Northern Pacific Railroad Company v. Patterson		Fuller	none	none	Mont.	dismissed
St. Clair v. United States		Harlan	none	none	C.C.N.D. Cal.	affirmed
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company v. McFadden		White	none	none	C.C.N.D. Tex.	reversed
Prentice v. Northern Pacific Railroad Company		Harlan	none	none	C.C.D. Minn.	affirmed
Balkam v. Woodstock Iron Company		White	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ala.	affirmed
Northern Pacific Railroad Company v. Babcock		White	none	none	C.C.D. Minn.	affirmed
Covington and Cincinnati Bridge Company v. Kentucky		Brown	none	none	Ky.	reversed
Covington and Cincinnati Elevated Railroad and Transfer and Bridge Company v. Kentucky		Brown	none	none	Ky.	reversed
United States v. Illinois Central Railroad Company		Field	none	Brewer	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
Riggles v. Erney		Brown	none	Brewer	Sup. Ct. D.C.	reversed
Moran v. Sturges		Fuller	none	Brewer	N.Y. Sup. Ct.	reversed
Barden v. Northern Pacific Railroad Company		Field	none	Brewer	C.C.D. Mont.	reversed
Northern Pacific Railroad Company v. Hambly		Brown	none	none	C.C.D.N.D.	certification
Reagan v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Company I		Brewer	none	none	C.C.W.D. Tex.	multiple
Reagan v. Mercantile Trust Company I		Brewer	none	none	C.C.W.D. Tex.	multiple
Reagan v. Mercantile Trust Company II		Brewer	none	none	C.C.W.D. Tex.	multiple
Reagan v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Company II		Brewer	none	none	C.C.W.D. Tex.	multiple
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company v. Backus		Brewer	none	Harlan	Ind.	affirmed
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway Company v. Backus		Brewer	none	Harlan	Ind.	affirmed
Interstate Commerce Commission v. Brimson		Harlan	none	Brewer	C.C.N.D. Ill.	reversed

Appendix to 154 U.S.

Volume 154 contains an extraordinary Appendix, starting at page 529, of "Some Cases not Hitherto Reported in Full". The previously-unpublished opinions in the Appendix were issued from 1852–83. An explanation for the Appendix is given at page 531: