List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 165

This is a list of cases reported in volume 165 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1897.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 165 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 165 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
	Edward Douglass White	Associate Justice	Louisiana	Samuel Blatchford		– December 18, 1910
	Rufus W. Peckham	Associate Justice	New York	Howell Edmunds Jackson		– October 24, 1909

Notable Case in 165 U.S.

''Allgeyer v. Louisiana''

Allgeyer v. Louisiana,, was a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana statute for violating an individual's liberty of contract. It was the first case in which the Court interpreted the word liberty in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to mean "economic liberty". The decision was the beginning of the Lochner era during which the Supreme Court struck many state regulations for infringing on an individual's right to contract. The Lochner era lasted 40 years and ended with West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish in 1937.

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 165 U.S.

Case Name	Page and year	Opinion of the Court	Concurring opinion	Dissenting opinion	Lower Court	Disposition
St. Louis–San Francisco Railway Company v. Mathews		Gray	none	none	Mo.	affirmed
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company v. Simmons		Gray	none	none	Mo.	affirmed
Warner Valley Stock Company v. Smith		Gray	none	none	D.C. Cir.	reversed
Agnew v. United States		Fuller	none	none	C.C.S.D. Fla.	affirmed
Scott v. Donald I		Shiras	none	Brown	C.C.D.S.C.	affirmed
Scott v. Donald II		Shiras	none	none	C.C.D.S.C.	affirmed
Missouri v. Iowa		Fuller	none	none	original	boundary set
Hussman v. Durham		Brewer	none	none	Iowa	affirmed
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Company v. Ellis		Brewer	none	Gray	Tex.	reversed
Clarke v. McDade		Peckham	none	none	Cal. Super. Ct.	dismissed
United States v. Barnette		Gray	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Jones v. Brim		White	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. Utah	affirmed
Addington v. United States		Harlan	none	none	C.C.E.D. Tex.	affirmed
Egan v. Hart		White	none	none	La.	dismissed
Adams Express Company v. Ohio		Fuller	none	White	6th Cir.	affirmed
American Express Company v. Indiana		Fuller	none	White	Ind. Cir. Ct.	affirmed
Rosecrans v. United States		Brewer	none	none	C.C.D. Mont.	affirmed
The Valencia		Harlan	none	none	2d Cir.	certification
Pim v. City of St. Louis		Harlan	none	none	Mo.	dismissed
Robertson v. Baldwin		Brown	none	Harlan	C.C.N.D. Cal.	affirmed
Western Union Telegraph Company v. Indiana		Fuller	none	none	Ind.	affirmed
Price v. United States		Peckham	none	none	C.C.N.D. Cal.	affirmed
United States v. Gorham		Peckham	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Graves v. United States		Peckham	none	none	C.C.N.D. Iowa	reversed
District of Columbia v. Johnson		Peckham	none	none	Ct. Cl.	reversed
District of Columbia v. Hall		Peckham	none	none	D.C. Cir.	reversed
District of Columbia v. Dickson		Peckham	none	none	Ct. Cl.	reversed
Hopkins v. Grimshaw		Gray	none	none	Sup. Ct. D.C.	reversed
Robinson v. Caldwell		Harlan	none	none	C.C.D. Idaho	dismissed
Oakes v. Mase		White	none	none	8th Cir.	reversed
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company v. Ohio		White	none	none	Ohio	affirmed
Burlington Gaslight Company v. Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway Company		Brewer	none	none	Iowa	affirmed
Davis v. United States		Brewer	none	none	C.C.W.D. Ark.	affirmed
Germania Iron Company v. United States		Brewer	none	none	8th Cir.	affirmed
Deweese v. Reinhard		Brewer	none	none	8th Cir.	affirmed
Glover v. Patten		Brown	none	none	D.C. Cir.	affirmed
Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company v. Mingus		Brown	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M.	affirmed
In re Chetwood		Fuller	none	none	C.C.N.D. Cal.	certiorari granted
United States v. Winona and St. Peter Railroad Company		Brewer	none	none	8th Cir.	affirmed
United States v. Union Pacific Railroad Company		Brewer	none	none	8th Cir.	affirmed
Winona and St. Peter Railroad Company v. United States		Brewer	none	none	8th Cir.	affirmed
Dunlop v. United States		Brown	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
United States v. McMillan		Gray	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. Utah	reversed
Smith v. Vulcan Iron Works		Gray	none	none	9th Cir.	dismissed
In re Kollock		Fuller	none	none	D.C. Cir.	habeas corpus denied
McCormick v. Market National Bank		Gray	none	none	Ill.	affirmed
Swaim v. United States		Shiras	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
De Vaughn v. Hutchinson		Shiras	none	none	D.C. Cir.	affirmed
Allgeyer v. Louisiana		Peckham	none	none	La.	reversed
Walker v. New Mexico and Southern Pacific Railroad Company		Brewer	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M.	affirmed
Pauly v. State Loan and Trust Company		Harlan	none	none	9th Cir.	affirmed
Wade v. Lawder		Fuller	none	none	Mo.	dismissed
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company v. New York		Harlan	none	none	N.Y. Sup. Ct.	affirmed
Fourth St. National Bank v. Yardley		White	none	none	3d Cir.	certification
Walker v. Brown		White	none	none	8th Cir.	reversed
United States v. City of Santa Fe		White	none	none	Ct. Priv. Land Cl.	reversed