List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 67

This is a list of cases reported in volume 67 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1862 and 1863.

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.

Jeremiah Sullivan Black

Starting with the 66th volume of U.S. Reports, the Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States was Jeremiah S. Black. Black was Reporter of Decisions from 1861 to 1862, covering volumes 66 and 67 of United States Reports which correspond to volumes 1 and 2 of his Black's Reports. As such, the dual form of citation to, for example, Gilman v. City of Sheboygan is 67 U.S. 510.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of 67 U.S. (2 Black)

The Supreme Court is established by Article Three of [the United States Constitution|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 67 U.S. were decided the Court comprised these nine members:

Portrait	Justice	Office	Home State	Succeeded	Date confirmed by the Senate	Tenure on Supreme Court
	Roger B. Taney	Chief [Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States\|Chief Justice]	Maryland	John Marshall		– October 12, 1864
	James Moore Wayne	Associate Justice	Georgia	William Johnson		– July 5, 1867
	John Catron	Associate Justice	Tennessee	newly created seat		– May 30, 1865
	Samuel Nelson	Associate Justice	New York	Smith Thompson		– November 28, 1872
	Robert Cooper Grier	Associate Justice	Pennsylvania	Henry Baldwin		– January 31, 1870
	Nathan Clifford	Associate Justice	Maine	Benjamin Robbins Curtis		– July 25, 1881
	Noah Haynes Swayne	Associate Justice	Ohio	John McLean		– January 24, 1881
	Samuel Freeman Miller	Associate Justice	Iowa	Peter Vivian Daniel		– October 13, 1890
	David Davis	Associate Justice	Illinois	John Archibald Campbell		– March 4, 1877

Notable Cases in 67 U.S. (2 Black)

''Prize Cases''

In the Prize Cases, the Supreme Court held, 5–4, that the blockade of the Southern ports ordered by President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War was constitutional. The blockade of the South resulted in the capture of dozens of American and foreign ships, both those attempting to run the highly efficient blockade and smuggle goods and munitions to the South, as well as those attempting to smuggle exports from the South.

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 67 U.S. (2 Black)

Case Name	Page & year	Opinion of the Court	Concurring opinion	Dissenting opinion	Lower Court	Disposition
United States v. Castillero		Clifford	none	Catron; Wayne	N.D. Cal.	multiple
Calais S.B. Co. v. Scudder		Nelson	Miller	Miller; Clifford	C.C.D. Me.	reversed
United States v. Galbraith		Nelson	none	none	N.D. Cal.	reversed
King v. Ackerman		Grier	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
City of Chicago v. Robbins		Davis	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	reversed
Ward v. Chamberlain		Clifford	none	Grier	C.C.N.D. Ohio	certification
Wabash et al. Co. v. Beers		Miller	none	none	C.C.D. Ind.	reversed
Chilton v. Braiden's Adm'x		Grier	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Curtis's Adm'x v. Fiedler		Clifford	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	reversed
Taylor v. Morton		Clifford	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	affirmed
Mississippi & M.R.R. Co. v. Ward		Catron	none	Nelson	D. Iowa	dismissed
Noonan v. Lee		Swayne	none	none	D. Wis.	multiple
Gilman v. City of Sheboygan		Swayne	none	none	D. Wis.	reversed
Griffing v. Gibb		Wayne	none	none	N.D. Cal.	reversed
Bronson v. La Crosse & M.R.R. Co.		Davis	none	none	C.C.D. Wis.	dismissal denied
Sumner v. Hicks		Swayne	none	none	D. Wis.	affirmed
Wright v. Bales		Wayne	none	none	C.C.S.D. Ohio	reversed
Ogilvie v. Knox Ins. Co.		Grier	none	none	C.C.D. Ind.	dismissed
Callan v. May		Taney	none	none	C.C.D.C.	dismissed
Wright v. Sill		Swayne	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ohio	affirmed
Parker v. Winnipiseogee et al. Co.		Swayne	none	none	C.C.D.N.H.	affirmed
Lindsey v. Hawes		Miller	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	reversed
Dredge v. Forsyth		Clifford	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	reversed
Kellogg v. Forsyth		Clifford	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	reversed
Congdon & T.M. Co. v. Goodman		Taney	none	none	Tenn.	dismissed
Russell v. Ely		Miller	none	none	D. Wis.	affirmed
The Ship Potomac		Grier	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Randall v. Howard		Davis	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	affirmed
City of Nebraska City v. Campbell		Nelson	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. Neb.	affirmed
United States v. Chaboya		Miller	none	none	N.D. Cal.	affirmed
Leffingwell v. Warren		Swayne	none	none	D. Wis.	reversed
Parrish's Lessee v. Ferris		Nelson	none	none	C.C.S.D. Ohio	affirmed
United States v. Grimes		Grier	none	none	N.D. Cal.	reversed
Rothwell v. Dewees		Miller	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
People ex rel. Bank of Comm. v. City of New York		Nelson	none	none	N.Y.	reversed
Prize Cases		Grier	none	Nelson	multiple	multiple
Appleton v. Bacon		Nelson	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
De Krafft v. Barney		Taney	none	none	C.C.D.C.	dismissed
Koehler v. Black River F.I. Co.		Davis	none	none	D. Wis.	affirmed
Mesa v. United States		per curiam	none	none	not indicated	dismissed
Moran v. Miami Cnty.		Wayne	none	none	C.C.D. Ind.	reversed