List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 181

This is a list of cases reported in volume 181 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1901.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 181 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 181 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
	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
	Joseph McKenna	Associate Justice	California	Stephen Johnson Field		– January 5, 1925

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 181 U.S.

Case Name	Page and year	Opinion of the Court	Concurring opinion	Dissenting opinion	Lower Court	Disposition
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission		White	none	none	6th Cir.	reversed
Interstate Commerce Commission v. Clyde Steamship Company		White	none	none	5th Cir.	affirmed
Lombard v. West Chicago Park Commissioners		White	none	none	Ill.	affirmed
Daingerfield National Bank v. Ragland		White	none	none	Tex. Civ. App.	affirmed
East Building and Loan Association v. Welling		White	none	none	S.C.	dismissed
Knights of Pythias v. Beck		Brewer	none	none	9th Cir.	affirmed
Texas Pacific Railroad Company v. Humble		Fuller	none	none	8th Cir.	affirmed
Browne v. Chavez		Fuller	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M.	multiple
John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Warren		Fuller	none	none	Ohio	affirmed
Whitney v. Hay		Harlan	none	none	D.C. Cir.	affirmed
Western Union Telegraph Company v. Call Publishing Company		Brewer	none	none	Neb.	affirmed
Whitney v. United States		Peckham	none	none	Ct. Priv. Land Cl.	affirmed
Baker v. Cummings		Peckham	none	none	D.C. Cir.	reversed
Werling v. Ingersoll		Peckham	none	none	Ill.	affirmed
St. Paul Gas Light Company v. City of St. Paul		White	none	none	Minn.	dismissed
Codlin v. Kohlhausen		Fuller	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M.	dismissed
City of New Orleans v. Emsheimer		Fuller	none	none	C.C.E.D. La.	dismissed
Atherton v. Atherton		Gray	none	Peckham	N.Y. Sup. Ct.	reversed
Bell v. Bell		Gray	none	Peckham	N.Y. Sup. Ct.	affirmed nunc pro tunc
Streitwolf v. Streitwolf		Gray	none	none	N.J.	affirmed
Lynde v. Lynde		Gray	none	Peckham	N.Y. Sup. Ct.	affirmed
Bryan v. Bernheimer		Gray	none	none	5th Cir.	reversed
Rasmussen v. Idaho		Brewer	none	none	Idaho	affirmed
Scott v. Deweese		Harlan	none	none	8th Cir.	affirmed
International Navigation Company v. Farr Bailey Manufacturing Company		Fuller	none	none	3d Cir.	affirmed
Bedford v. Eastern Building and Loan Association		McKenna	none	none	6th Cir.	affirmed
Wall v. Cox		Gray	none	none	4th Cir.	certification
Smith v. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company		McKenna	none	Harlan; Brown	Tex. Civ. App.	affirmed
Treat v. White		Brewer	none	none	2d Cir.	certification
Speed v. McCarthy		Fuller	none	none	S.D. Cir.	dismissed
American Sugar Refining Company v. City of New Orleans		Fuller	none	none	5th Cir.	reversed
Fairbank v. United States		Brewer	none	Harlan	D. Minn.	reversed
French v. Barber Asphalt Paving Company		Shiras	none	Harlan	Mo.	affirmed
Wight v. Davidson		Shiras	none	Harlan	D.C. Cir.	reversed
Town of Tonawanda v. Lyon		Shiras	none	Harlan	C.C.N.D.N.Y.	reversed
Webster v. City of Fargo		Shiras	none	Harlan	N.D.	affirmed
Cass Farm Company v. City of Detroit		Shiras	none	Harlan	Mich.	affirmed
City of Detroit v. Parker		Shiras	none	Harlan	C.C.E.D. Mich.	reversed
Shumate v. Heman		Shiras	none	Harlan	Mo.	affirmed
Farrell v. West Chicago Park Commissioners		Shiras	none	Harlan	Ill.	affirmed
German National Bank v. Speckert		Gray	none	none	6th Cir.	dismissed
Put-in-Bay Waterworks Railway Company v. Ryan		Shiras	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ohio	certification
United States Rubber Company v. American Oak Leather Company		Shiras	none	none	7th Cir.	reversed
District of Columbia v. Camden Iron Works		Fuller	none	none	D.C. Cir.	affirmed
The Barnstable		Brown	none	none	1st Cir.	reversed
Hale v. Lewis		Brown	none	none	Wis.	dismissed
Barker v. Harvey		Brewer	none	none	Cal.	affirmed
United States v. Edmonston		Brewer	none	none	Ct. Cl.	reversed
Lockhart v. Johnson		Peckham	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M.	affirmed
Wells v. City of Savannah		Peckham	none	none	Ga.	affirmed
Red River Valley National Bank v. Craig		Peckham	none	none	N.D.	affirmed
Armijo v. Armijo		Peckham	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M.	affirmed
Marks v. Shoup		McKenna	none	none	D. Alaska	reversed
Luhrs v. Hancock		McKenna	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. Ariz.	affirmed
Audubon v. Shufeldt		Gray	none	none	Sup. Ct. D.C.	reversed
Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company v. Adams		Brown	none	none	Miss.	rehearing denied
Schlitz Brewing Company v. United States		Brown	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Mallett v. North Carolina		Shiras	none	none	N.C.	affirmed
Colburn v. Grant		Shiras	none	none	D.C. Cir.	affirmed
American Sugar Refining Company v. United States		McKenna	none	none	2d Cir.	affirmed