List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 30

This is a list of cases reported in volume 30 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1831.

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.

Richard Peters, Jr.

Starting with the 26th volume of U.S. Reports, the Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States was Richard Peters Jr. Peters was Reporter of Decisions from 1828 to 1843, covering volumes 26 through 41 of United States Reports which correspond to volumes 1 through 16 of his Peters's Reports. As such, the dual form of citation to, for example, Hunter v. United States is 30 U.S. 173.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of 30 U.S. (5 Pet.)

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 30 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
	William Johnson	Associate Justice	South Carolina	Alfred Moore		– August 4, 1834
	Gabriel Duvall	Associate Justice	Maryland	Samuel Chase		– January 12, 1835
	Joseph Story	Associate Justice	Massachusetts	William Cushing		– September 10, 1845
	Smith Thompson	Associate Justice	New York	Henry Brockholst Livingston		– December 18, 1843
	John McLean	Associate Justice	Ohio	Robert Trimble		– April 4, 1861
	Henry Baldwin	Associate Justice	Pennsylvania	Bushrod Washington		– April 21, 1844

Notable Case in 30 U.S. (5 Pet.)

''Cherokee Nation v. Georgia''

In Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, , the Cherokee Nation sought a federal injunction against laws passed by the U.S. state of Georgia depriving the tribe of rights within its geographical boundaries, but the Supreme Court did not hear the case on its merits. It ruled that it had no original jurisdiction in the matter, since the Cherokees were a dependent nation, with a relationship to the United States like that of a "ward to its guardian". One year later, however, in Worcester v. Georgia, 31 U.S. 515, the Supreme Court ruled that the Cherokee Nation was sovereign. According to the decision, this meant that Georgia had no right to enforce state laws in the Cherokee territory. President Andrew Jackson refused to enforce the ruling, however, instead directing the expulsion of the Cherokee Nation from Georgia. U.S. Army forces were used in some cases to round them up. Their expulsion and subsequent route is called "The Trail of Tears". Of the 15,000 who left Georgia, 4,000 died on the journey to Indian Territory in the present-day U.S. state of Oklahoma.

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 30 U.S. (5 Pet.)

Case Name	Page and year	Opinion of the Court	Concurring opinion	Dissenting opinion	Lower court	Disposition
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia		Marshall	Johnson, Baldwin	Thompson	original	dismissed
Scott's Lessee v. Ratliffe		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Ky.	reversed
Livingston v. Smith		Johnson	none	none	C.C.D.N.J.	affirmed
Union Bank v. Geary		Thompson	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
United States v. Tingey		Story	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
United States v. Tingey's Administrators		per curiam	none	none	C.C.D.C.	amendment denied
Greenleaf's Lessee v. Birth		Story	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
Simonton v. Winter		Thompson	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
Henderson v. Griffin		Baldwin	none	none	C.C.D.S.C.	affirmed
Backhouse v. Patton		McLean	none	none	C.C.E.D. Va.	certification
Hunter v. United States		McLean	none	none	C.C.D.R.I.	affirmed
Ex parte Crane		Marshall	none	Baldwin	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	mandamus denied
Yeaton v. Lynn ex rel. Lyles		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Doe ex rel. Patterson v. Winn		Story	none	Johnson	C.C.D. Ga.	reversed
Fisher's Lessor v. Cockerell		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Ky.	dismissed
Cathcart v. Robinson		Marshall	Baldwin	Baldwin	C.C.D.C.	reversed
New Jersey v. New York		Marshall	none	none	original	continued
Smith v. United States		McLean	none	none	D. Mo.	reversed
Page v. Lloyd		McLean	none	Johnson	C.C.E.D. Va.	certification
Clarke's Lessee v. Courtney		Story	none	Baldwin	C.C.D. Ky.	reversed
Tayloe v. Thomson's Lessee		Baldwin	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Farrar v. United States		Johnson	none	none	D. Mo.	reversed
Shankland v. Washington		Story	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Hinde v. Vattier's Lessee		Baldwin	none	none	C.C.D. Ohio	affirmed
Jackson ex rel. Bradstreet v. Huntington		Johnson	none	none	N.D.N.Y.	affirmed
City of New Orleans v. United States		per curiam	none	none	E.D. La.	reversed
District of Columbia Levy Court v. Ringgold		Thompson	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Hawkins v. Barney's Lessee		Johnson	none	none	C.C.D. Ky.	reversed
Lewis v. Marshall		McLean	none	none	C.C.D. Ky.	multiple
Second Bank of the United States v. Martin		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Ala.	affirmed
Peltz v. Clarke		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Peyton v. Stith		Baldwin	none	none	C.C.D. Ky.	reversed
Fowle v. Lawrason's Executor		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
Menard v. Aspasia		McLean	none	none	Mo.	dismissed
Smith v. Union Bank		Johnson	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Winship v. Second Bank of the United States		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	affirmed
Tiernan v. Jackson		Story	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	reversed
Patapsco Insurance Company v. Southgate		Thompson	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	affirmed
Edmondston v. Drake		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.S.C.	reversed
United States v. Robertson		Marshall	none	Baldwin	C.C.D. Md.	certification
Sheppard v. Taylor		Story	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	certification
Potter v. Gardner		McLean	Baldwin	Baldwin	C.C.D.R.I.	reversed