List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 54

This is a list of cases reported in volume 54 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1852.

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.

Benjamin Chew Howard

Starting with the 42nd volume of U.S. Reports, the Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States was Benjamin Chew Howard. Howard was Reporter of Decisions from 1843 to 1860, covering volumes 42 through 65 of United States Reports which correspond to volumes 1 through 24 of his Howard's Reports. As such, the dual form of citation to, for example, Mitchell v. Harmony is 54 U.S. 115.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of 54 U.S. (13 How.)

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 54 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	Maryland	John Marshall		– October 12, 1864
	John McLean	Associate Justice	Ohio	Robert Trimble		– April 4, 1861
	James Moore Wayne	Associate Justice	Georgia	William Johnson		– July 5, 1867
	John Catron	Associate Justice	Tennessee	newly created seat		– May 30, 1865
	John McKinley	Associate Justice	Alabama	newly created seat		– July 19, 1852
	Peter Vivian Daniel	Associate Justice	Virginia	Philip P. Barbour		– May 31, 1860
	Samuel Nelson	Associate Justice	New York	Smith Thompson		– November 28, 1872
	Robert Cooper Grier	Associate Justice	Pennsylvania	Henry Baldwin		– January 31, 1870
	Benjamin Robbins Curtis	Associate Justice	Massachusetts	Levi Woodbury		– September 30, 1857

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 54 U.S. (13 How.)

Case Name	Page & year	Opinion of the Court	Concurring opinion	Dissenting opinion	Lower Court	Disposition
United States v. Hughes I		Nelson	none	none	E.D. La.	reversed
United States v. Hughes II		Nelson	none	none	E.D. La.	reversed
United States v. Hughes III		Nelson	none	none	E.D. La.	reversed
United States v. Pillerin		Taney	none	none	E.D. La.	reversed
Crawford v. Points		Taney	none	none	W.D. Va.	dismissed
Darrington v. Bank of Ala.		McLean	none	none	Ala.	affirmed
Ballance v. Forsyth		McLean	none	none	C.C.D. Ill.	affirmed
Doe v. Beebe		Taney	none	none	Ala.	affirmed
McCormick v. Gray		Curtis	none	none	C.C.D. Ill.	reversed
United States v. Ferreira		Taney	none	none	N.D. Fla.	dismissed
Barrow v. Hill		Taney	none	none	C.C.E.D. La.	affirmed
Bradford v. Union Bank		Nelson	none	none	N.D. Miss.	reversed
Richmond et al. R.R. Co. v. Louisa R.R. Co.		Grier	none	Curtis	Va.	affirmed
Parish v. Murphree		McLean	none	none	N.D. Ala.	reversed
Williamson v. Barrett		Nelson	none	Catron	C.C.D. Ohio	affirmed
Mitchell v. Harmony		Taney	none	Daniel	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Buckingham v. McLean I		McLean	none	none	C.C.D. Ohio	dismissal denied
Buckingham v. McLean II		Curtis	none	none	C.C.D. Ohio	affirmed
Hogan v. Ross		Daniel	none	none	N.D. Miss.	affirmed
Coffee v. Planters Bank		Daniel	none	none	S.D. Miss.	affirmed
Weems v. George		Grier	none	none	C.C.E.D. La.	affirmed
Lord v. Goddard		Catron	none	none	C.C.D.N.H.	reversed
Morsell v. Hall		Taney	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	affirmed
United States v. McCullagh		Taney	none	none	C.C.E.D. La.	reversed
Miller v. Austen		Catron	none	none	C.C.D. Ohio	affirmed
Saltmarsh v. Tuthill		Catron	none	none	M.D. Ala.	affirmed
Tyler v. Black		Wayne	none	none	C.C.D. Me.	reversed
Campbell v. Doe		McLean	none	none	Ohio	affirmed
Glenn v. United States		Catron	none	none	D. Ark.	affirmed
De Vilemont's Heirs v. United States		Catron	none	none	D. Ark.	affirmed
Neves v. Scott		Curtis	none	none	C.C.D. Ga.	reversed
De Forest v. Lawrence		Nelson	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Walsh v. Rogers		Grier	none	none	C.C.E.D. La.	affirmed
Taylor v. Doe		Daniel	none	none	N.D. Miss.	reversed
Tremlett v. Adams		Taney	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	affirmed
Philadelphia et al. R.R. Co. v. Howard		Curtis	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	affirmed
Very v. Levy		Curtis	none	none	C.C.D. Ark.	affirmed
Day v. Woodworth		Grier	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	affirmed
Fowler v. Hart		McLean	none	none	C.C.E.D. La.	affirmed
Howard v. Ingersoll		Wayne	Nelson; Curtis	none	multiple	reversed
Norris v. Crocker		Catron	none	none	C.C.D. Ind.	certification
Rogers v. Lindsey		Nelson	none	none	C.C.S.D. Ala.	reversed
McAfee v. Crofford		McLean	none	none	N.D. Miss.	affirmed
Hill v. Tucker		Wayne	none	none	C.C.E.D. La.	reversed
Goodall v. Tucker		Wayne	none	none	C.C.E.D. La.	reversed
Pillow v. Roberts		Grier	none	none	C.C.E.D. Ark.	reversed
United States v. Hodge		Daniel	none	none	C.C.E.D. La.	reversed
Lawrence v. Caswell		Taney	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	reversed
Jecker v. Montgomery		Taney	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
Pennsylvania v. Wheeling & B.B. Co.		McLean	none	Taney; Daniel	original	decree for Pa.