List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 188

This is a list of cases reported in volume 188 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1903.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 188 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 188 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
	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
	Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.	Associate Justice	Massachusetts	Horace Gray		– January 12, 1932

Notable Case in 188 U.S.

''Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co.''

The Supreme Court in Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co.,, via an opinion written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., held that advertisements were protected by copyright. The case is now cited for the proposition that commercial speech can be protected by copyright.

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 188 U.S.

Case Name	Page & year	Opinion of the Court	Concurring opinion	Dissenting opinion	Lower Court	Disposition
Kelley v. Rhoads		Brown	none	none	Wyo.	reversed
Weber v. Rogan		Brown	none	none	Tex.	dismissed
Andrews v. Andrews		White	none	none	Mass.	affirmed
Earle v. Carson		White	none	none	3d Cir.	affirmed
Hale v. Allinson		Peckham	none	none	Cir.	affirmed
Diamond M. Co. v. Village of Ontonagon		McKenna	none	none	C.C.W.D. Mich.	affirmed
Billings v. Illinois		McKenna	none	none	Ill.	affirmed
American C. Co. v. Continental C. Co.		Holmes	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	reversed
Nelson v. Northern P. Ry. Co.		Harlan	none	Brewer	Wash.	reversed
Smythe v. United States		Harlan	none	Peckham	5th Cir.	affirmed
Beals v. Cone		Brewer	none	none	Colo.	dismissed
Blackstone v. Miller		Holmes	none	none	N.Y. Cnty. Sur. Ct.	affirmed
Connecticut M.L. Ins. Co. v. Hillmon		Brown	none	none	8th Cir.	reversed
Easton v. Iowa		Shiras	none	none	Iowa	reversed
Bleistein v. Donaldson L. Co.		Holmes	none	Harlan	6th Cir.	reversed
The Manila Prize Cases		Fuller	none	none	Sup. Ct. D.C.	multiple
The Infanta Maria Teresa		Fuller	none	Brown	Sup. Ct. D.C.	reversed
Mutual L. Ins. Co. v. McGrew		Fuller	none	none	Cal.	dismissed
Hooker v. City of Los Angeles		Fuller	none	none	Cal.	dismissed
Lottery Case		Harlan	none	Fuller	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
Francis v. United States		Holmes	none	Harlan	6th Cir.	reversed
Louisville et al. Co. v. Kentucky I		Harlan	none	none	Ky.	reversed
Louisville et al. Co. v. Kentucky II		Harlan	none	none	Ky.	reversed
Bigby v. United States		Harlan	none	none	C.C.E.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Cummings v. City of Chicago		Harlan	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
Calumet G.E. Co. v. City of Chicago		Harlan	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
United States v. Rickert		Harlan	none	none	8th Cir.	certification
United States v. Lynah		Brewer	Brown	White	C.C.D.S.C.	affirmed
United States v. Williams		Brewer	none	none	C.C.D.S.C.	affirmed
Clarke v. Larremore		Brewer	none	none	2d Cir.	affirmed
Williams v. Parker		Brewer	none	none	Mass.	affirmed
Reetz v. Michigan		Brewer	none	none	Mich.	affirmed
Leach v. Burr		Brewer	none	none	D.C. Cir.	affirmed
Schaefer v. Werling		Brewer	none	none	Ind.	affirmed
Tarrance v. Florida		Brewer	none	none	Fla.	affirmed
Northern P. Ry. Co. v. Soderberg		Brown	none	none	9th Cir.	affirmed
Prout v. Starr		Shiras	none	none	C.C.D. Neb.	affirmed
Gutierres v. Albuquerque L. & I. Co.		White	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M.	affirmed
Rankin v. Chase Nat'l Bank		White	none	none	2d Cir.	reversed
Commercial P. Co. v. Beckwith		White	none	none	Sup. Ct. N.Y.	affirmed
United States v. Barringer		White	none	none	Ct. Cl.	reversed
Waggoner v. Flack		Peckham	none	none	Tex. Civ. App.	affirmed
Helwig v. United States		Peckham	none	none	2d Cir.	certification
Jaquith v. Rowley		Peckham	none	none	D. Mass.	affirmed
American I. Co. v. Eastern T. & B. Co.		Peckham	none	none	D.C. Cir.	affirmed
Boston et al. Co. v. Montana O.P. Co.		Peckham	none	none	C.C.D. Mont.	affirmed
Winslow v. Baltimore & O.R.R. Co.		Peckham	none	none	D.C. Cir.	reversed
Chicago T.S. v. Illinois		Peckham	none	White	Ill.	affirmed
Indiana Mfg. Co. v. Koehne		Peckham	none	none	C.C.D. Ind.	affirmed
Hyatt v. People ex rel. Corkran		Peckham	none	none	N.Y.	affirmed
The Mangrove Prize Money		Holmes	none	none	S.D. Fla.	affirmed
Home L. Ins. Co. v. Fisher		Holmes	none	none	C.C.N.D. Fla.	affirmed
Kidd v. Alabama		Holmes	none	none	Ala.	affirmed
Fourth Nat'l Bank v. Albaugh		Holmes	none	none	8th Cir.	affirmed