List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 57

This is a list of cases reported in volume 57 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1853 and 1854.

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, Steamboat New World v. King is 57 U.S. 469 .

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of 57 U.S. (16 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 57 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
	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
	John Archibald Campbell	Associate Justice	Alabama	John McKinley		– April 30, 1861

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 57 U.S. (16 How.)

Case Name	Page and year	Opinion of the Court	Concurring opinion	Dissenting opinion	Lower Court	Disposition
Lewis v. Darling		Wayne	none	none	N.D. Ala.	reversed
Turner v. Yates		Curtis	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	affirmed
Yerger v. Jones		Grier	none	none	N.D. Ala.	affirmed
Conrad v. Griffey		McLean	none	none	C.C.E.D. La.	affirmed
Burgess v. Gray		Taney	none	none	Mo.	affirmed
Pennington v. Gibson		Daniel	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	affirmed
Fourniquet v. Perkins		Taney	none	none	C.C.E.D. La.	affirmed
McCabe v. Worthington		Catron	none	none	Mo.	affirmed
Sizer v. Many		Taney	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	dismissed
Piquignot v. Pennsylvania Railroad Company		Grier	none	none	C.C.W.D. Pa.	affirmed
Robertson v. Coulter		Taney	none	none	Miss.	dismissed
Chapman ex rel. Leavitt v. Smith		Nelson	none	none	M.D. Ala.	affirmed
Stafford v. Union Bank		McLean	Catron	none	D. Tex.	dismissal denied
Davenport v. Fletcher		McLean	none	none	C.C.E.D. La.	dismissed
Adams v. Law		McLean	none	none	C.C.D.C.	dismissal denied
Stuart v. Maxwell		Curtis	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Cross v. Harrison		Wayne	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Chouteau v. Molony		Wayne	none	none	D. Iowa	affirmed
Denise v Ruggles		Catron	none	none	C.C.D. Mo.	affirmed
Thorp v. Raymond		Nelson	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Maillard v. Lawrence		Daniel	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Bartlett v. Kane		Campbell	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	affirmed
Carroll v. Carroll's Lessee		Curtis	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	affirmed
Smith v. Swormstedt		Nelson	none	none	C.C.D. Ohio	reversed
Marshall v. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company		Grier	none	Catron; Daniel	C.C.D. Md.	affirmed
Homer v. Brown		Wayne	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	affirmed
State Bank v. Knoop		McLean	Taney	Catron; Daniel; Campbell	Ohio	reversed
Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company v. Debolt		plurality	Taney; Catron; Daniel; Campbell; McLean	Curtis	Ohio	affirmed
Gamache v. Piquignot		Catron	none	none	Mo.	affirmed
The Steamboat New World		Curtis	none	Daniel	N.D. Cal.	affirmed
Seymour v. McCormick		Grier	none	none	C.C.N.D.N.Y.	reversed
Amis v. Myers		Campbell	none	none	C.C.E.D. La.	reversed
Guitard v. Stoddard		Campbell	none	none	C.C.D. Mo.	reversed
Irwin v. United States		Grier	none	none	C.C.W.D. Pa.	affirmed
Fanning v. Gregoire		McLean	none	none	D. Iowa	affirmed
Barney v. Saunders		Grier	none	none	C.C.D.C.	multiple
Southard v. Russell		Nelson	none	none	C.C.D. Ky.	affirmed
Slicer v. Bank of Pittsburg		McLean	none	none	C.C.W.D. Pa.	affirmed
Calvert v. Bradley		Daniel	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Early v. Rogers		Campbell	none	none	W.D. Va.	affirmed
Early v. Doe		Wayne	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Cervantes v. United States		McLean	none	none	N.D. Cal.	reversed
Deshler v. Dodge		Nelson	none	Catron; Daniel	C.C.D. Ohio.	reversed
Doe v. Braden		Taney	none	none	N.D. Fla.	affirmed