List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 72

This is a list of cases reported in volume 72 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States from 1865 to 1867.

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.

John William Wallace

Starting with the 66th volume of U.S. Reports, the Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States was John William Wallace. Wallace was Reporter of Decisions from 1863 to 1874, covering volumes 68 through 90 of United States Reports which correspond to volumes 1 through 23 of his Wallace's Reports. As such, the dual form of citation to, for example, Christmas v. Russell is 72 U.S. 290.
Wallace's Reports were the final nominative reports for the US Supreme Court; starting with volume 91, cases were identified simply as " U.S. ".

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of 72 U.S. (5 Wall.)

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 72 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
	Salmon P. Chase	Chief [Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States\|Chief Justice]	Ohio	Roger B. Taney		– May 7, 1873
	James Moore Wayne	Associate Justice	Georgia	William Johnson		– July 5, 1867
	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
	Stephen Johnson Field	Associate Justice	California	newly created seat		– December 1, 1897

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 72 U.S. (5 Wall.)

Case Name	Page & year	Opinion of the Court	Concurring opinion	Dissenting opinion	Lower Court	Disposition
The Springbok		Chase	none	none	S.D.N.Y.	multiple
The Peterhoff		Chase	none	none	S.D.N.Y.	reversed
United States v. Weed		Miller	none	none	E.D. La.	affirmed
Watson v. Sutherland		Davis	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	affirmed
Parmelee v. Simpson		Davis	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. Neb.	reversed
Woodworth v. Corn E. Ins. Co.		Miller	none	none	N.D. Ill.	affirmed
Illinois C.R.R. Co. v. Barron		Nelson	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
Hadden v. Collector		Field	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Shelton v. Collector		Swayne	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	affirmed
Stanley v. Colt		Nelson	none	none	C.C.D. Conn.	affirmed
The Dashing Wave		Chase	none	none	E.D. La.	affirmed
The Science		Chase	none	none	E.D. La.	affirmed
The Volant		Chase	none	none	E.D. La.	reversed
The Teresita		Chase	none	none	E.D. La.	affirmed
The Jenny		Chase	none	none	E.D. La.	reversed
Ex parte Milwaukee R.R. Co.		Miller	none	none	C.C.D. Wis.	supersedeas granted
Barton v. Forsyth		Clifford	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	dismissed
Campbell v. City of Kenosha		Davis	none	none	C.C.D. Wis.	reversed
Myers v. Fenn		Nelson	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
Seaver v. Bigelows		Nelson	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	dismissed
United States v. Repentigny		Nelson	none	none	D. Mich.	reversed
Croxall v. Shererd		Swayne	Miller	none	C.C.D.N.J.	affirmed
Christmas v. Russell		Clifford	none	none	C.C.S.D. Miss.	affirmed
Green v. Van Buskirk		Miller	none	Nelson	N.Y. Sup. Ct.	dismissal denied
Dwyer v. Dunbar		Swayne	none	none	E.D. Tex.	affirmed
Townsend v. Greeley		Field	none	none	Cal.	affirmed
Townsend v. Burbank		Chase	none	none	Cal.	affirmed
Francis v. United States		Grier	none	none	C.C.D. Mo.	affirmed
The Gray Jacket I		Swayne	none	none	E.D. La.	affirmed
The Gray Jacket II		Chase	none	none	E.D. La.	argument granted
The Hampton		Miller	none	none	Sup. Ct. D.C.	affirmed
The William Bagaley		Clifford	none	none	E.D. La.	affirmed
Ewing v. City of St. Louis		Field	none	none	C.C.D. Mo.	affirmed
De Groot v. United States		Miller	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Nichols v. Levy		Swayne	none	none	C.C.M.D. Tenn.	reversed
United States v. Armijo		Field	none	none	N.D. Cal.	affirmed
Serrano v. United States		Davis	none	none	D. Cal.	reversed
License Tax Cases		Chase	none	none	multiple	revenue statues upheld
Pervear v. Massachusetts		Chase	none	none	Mass.	affirmed
The Eddy		Clifford	none	none	C.C.D.S.C.	affirmed
Hansbrough v. Peck		Nelson	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
Howard Ins. Co. v. Chase		Davis	none	none	C.C.D. Me.	affirmed
The Sir William Peel		Chase	none	none	E.D. La.	affirmed
United States v. Pico		Field	none	none	D. Cal.	affirmed
Merchants' Ins. Co. v. Ritchie		Chase	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	dismissed
The Bird of Paradise		Clifford	none	none	C.C.N.D. Cal.	reversed
United States v. Commissioner		Nelson	none	none	Sup. Ct. D.C.	affirmed
Goodrich v. City of Chicago		Swayne	none	none	N.D. Ill.	affirmed
The Pearl		Chase	none	none	S.D. Fla.	ship & cargo condemned
Jones v. La Vallette		Chase	none	none	C.C.E.D. La.	dismissed
Washington S. Packet Co. v. Sickles		Nelson	none	Miller	Sup. Ct. D.C.	reversed
De Haro v. United States		Davis	none	none	N.D. Cal.	affirmed
The Sea Lion		Swayne	none	Grier	S.D. Fla.	affirmed
United States v. MacDonald		Clifford	none	none	C.C.D. Me.	affirmed
Milwaukee & M.R.R. Co. v. Soutter		Miller	none	none	C.C.D. Wis.	reversed
Thompson v. Riggs		Clifford	none	none	Sup. Ct. D.C.	affirmed
Wolcott v. Des Moines Co.		Nelson	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Nash v. Towne		Clifford	none	none	C.C.D. Wis.	affirmed
City of Galena v. Amy		Swayne	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
Bates v. Brown		Swayne	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
City of Philadelphia v. Collector		Clifford	none	none	C.C.E.D. Pa.	affirmed
Kansas Indians Cases		Davis	none	none	Kan.	reversed
New York Indians		Nelson	none	none	N.Y.	reversed
Marshall County v. Schenck		Clifford	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
Kelly v. Crawford		Field	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
O'Neal v. Kirkpatrick		Nelson	none	none	C.C.D. Cal.	affirmed
Deery v. Cray		Miller	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	reversed
Lee v. Dodge		Miller	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	reversed
Withenbury v. United States		Chase	none	none	S.D. Ill.	dismissal denied
Seymour v. Freer		Chase	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	dismissal denied
Garrison v. Cass County		Chase	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. Neb.	dismissed
Alviso v. United States		Chase	none	none	N.D. Cal.	dismissed
German v. United States		Chase	none	none	S.D. Cal.	dismissed
Ex parte Milwaukee R.R. Co.		Miller	none	none	C.C.D. Wis.	mandamus granted
Higueras v. United States		Clifford	none	none	N.D. Cal.	affirmed