List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 19

This is a list of cases reported in volume 19 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1821.

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, Hopkins v. Lee is 19 U.S. 109.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of 19 U.S. (6 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 19 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 19 U.S. (6 Wheat.)

''Cohens v. Virginia''

Cohens v. Virginia, , is a landmark case by the Supreme Court of the United States that is most notable for the Court's assertion of its power to review state supreme court decisions in criminal law matters when the defendant claims that their constitutional rights have been violated. The Court had previously asserted a similar jurisdiction over civil cases involving U.S. parties. The main issue in the case was the preliminary issue of whether the Supreme Court had jurisdiction to hear an appeal in a criminal case decided by the courts of Virginia. Virginia argued that the U.S. Constitution does not give the Supreme Court appellate jurisdiction over criminal judgments by state courts. Virginia also argued that the U.S. Constitution does not give the Supreme Court appellate jurisdiction over cases in which a state is a party. In effect, Virginia argued that its decision was final and could not be reviewed by the federal courts even though the decision involved the interpretation and application of an act of Congress. The Supreme Court ruled, however, that unless state court decisions involving federal law could be reviewed by federal courts, there would be as many interpretations of federal law as there are states.

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 19 U.S. (6 Wheat.)

Case Name	Page and year	Opinion of the Court	Concurring opinion	Dissenting opinion	Lower Court	Disposition
The Amiable Isabella		Story	Johnson	none	C.C.D.N.C.	affirmed
Bussard v. Levering		per curiam	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Lindenberger v. Beall		per curiam	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
Mechanics' Bank v. Withers		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Hopkins v. Lee		Livingston	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Thatcher v. Powell		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.W. Tenn.	affirmed
Randolph v. Barbour		per curiam	none	none	C.C.D. Ky.	dismissed
Mayhew v. Thatcher		Marshall	none	none	D. La.	affirmed
Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank of Pennsylvania v. Smith		Marshall	none	none	Pa.	reversed
United States v. Wilkins		Story	none	none	C.C.D. Ky.	certification
Young v. Bryan		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Tenn.	affirmed
The Bello Corrunes		Johnson	none	none	C.C.D.R.I.	multiple
Smith v. Universal Insurance Company		Story	none	none	C.C.D. Md	affirmed
The Robert Edwards		Livingston	none	none	C.C.D.S.C.	affirmed
The Nueva Anna		per curiam	none	none	D. La.	reversed
The Collector		Livingston	none	none	C.C.D. Md	affirmed
Anderson v. Dunn		Johnson	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
La Conception		Story	none	none	C.C.D.S.C.	reversed
Willinks v. Hollingsworth		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Md	certification
Green v. Watkins		Story	none	none	not indicated	certification
Cohens v. Virginia		Marshall	none	none	Va. Q. Sess.	affirmed
Gibbons v. Ogden		per curiam	none	none	N.Y.	dismissed
Sullivan v. Fulton Steamboat Company		per curiam	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
The Jonquille		per curiam	none	none	C.C.D.N.C.	dismissed
Hughes v. Blake		Livingston	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	affirmed
Bartle v. Coleman		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
Prevost v. Gratz		Story	none	none	C.C.D. Pa.	reversed
Bowie v. Henderson		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Spring v. South Carolina Insurance Company		per curiam	none	none	C.C.D.S.C.	motion denied
United States v. Six Packages of Goods		Livingston	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Brashier v. Gratz		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Ky.	affirmed
United States v. Daniel		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.S.C.	certification
Kerr v. Watts		Johnson	none	none	C.C.D. Ohio	reversed
Leeds v. Marine Insurance Company		Johnson	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Union Bank v. Hyde		Johnson	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
Clark v. Graham		Todd	none	none	C.C.D. Ohio	affirmed
Preston's Heirs v. Bowmar		Story	none	none	C.C.D. Ky.	affirmed
Otis v. Walter		Livingston	none	none	Mass.	reversed
Goszler v. Town of Georgetown		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
M'Clung v. Silliman		Johnson	none	none	Ohio	affirmed
Mutual Assurance Society v. Faxon		Johnson	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed