List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 7

This is a list of cases reported in volume 7 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1805 and 1806.

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.

William Cranch

Starting with the 5th volume of U.S. Reports, the Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States was William Cranch. Cranch was Reporter of Decisions from 1801 to 1815, covering volumes 5 through 13 of United States Reports which correspond to volumes 1 through 9 of his Cranch's Reports. As such, the complete citation to, for example, Peyton v. Brooke is 7 U.S. 92.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of 7 U.S. (3 Cranch)

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 7 U.S. were decided, the Court comprised these six 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 Cushing	Associate Justice	Massachusetts	original seat established		– September 13, 1810
	William Paterson	Associate Justice	New Jersey	Thomas Johnson		– September 8, 1806
	Samuel Chase	Associate Justice	Maryland	John Blair, Jr.		– June 19, 1811
	Bushrod Washington	Associate Justice	Virginia	James Wilson		– November 26, 1829
	William Johnson	Associate Justice	South Carolina	Alfred Moore		– August 4, 1834

Notable cases in 7 U.S. (3 Cranch)

''United States v. More''

In United States v. More, , the Court held it had no jurisdiction to hear appeals from criminal cases in the circuit courts by writs of error. Relying on the Exceptions Clause, the Supreme Court held that Congress's enumerated grants of appellate jurisdiction to the Court operated as an exercise of Congress's power to eliminate all other forms of appellate jurisdiction.
More ensured that the Court's criminal jurisprudence would be limited to writs of error from the state courts, habeas petitions, and writs of error from habeas petitions in the circuit courts, and certificates of division and mandamus from the circuit courts. Congress did not grant the Court jurisdiction to hear writs of error from the circuit courts in criminal cases until 1889, for capital crimes, and 1891, for other "infamous" crimes. The Judicial Code of 1911 abolished the circuit courts, transferred the trial of crimes to the district courts, and extended the Supreme Court's appellate jurisdiction to all crimes. But, these statutory grants were construed not to permit writs of error filed by the prosecution, as in More.

''Strawbridge v. Curtiss''

In Strawbridge v. Curtiss, the Supreme Court first addressed the question of complete diversity for diversity jurisdiction. In a brief opinion the Court held that for federal diversity jurisdiction, under section 11 of the Judiciary Act of 1789, no party on one side of a suit may be a citizen of the same state as any party on the other side. Therefore, when there are joint plaintiffs or defendants, jurisdiction must be established as to each individual party. That requirement remains acceptable in law as a matter of statutory interpretation, not constitutional command.

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 7 U.S. (3 Cranch)

Case Name	Page & year	Opinion of the Court	Concurring opinion	Dissenting opinion	Lower court	Disposition
Huidekoper's Lessee v. Douglass		Marshall	Johnson	none	C.C.D. Pa.	certification
United States v. Hooe		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	multiple
Peyton v. Brooke		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Lambert's Lessee v. Paine		Johnson	Washington, Paterson, Cushing	none	C.C.D. Va.	affirmed
Hodgson v. Butts		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
United States v. More		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	dismissed
Faw v. Roberdeau's Executor		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
Ray v. Law		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	appeal allowed
Levy v. Gadsby		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Marine Insurance Company v. Wilson		Washington	Paterson	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Wilson v. Codman's Executor		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Hallet v. Jenks		Marshall	none	none	N.Y.	affirmed
Milligan v. Milledge		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Georgia	reversed
Cooke v. Graham's Administrator		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
Dobynes v. United States		per curiam	none	none	D. Ky.	reversed
Hannay v. Eve		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Ga.	affirmed
Silsby v. Young		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Ga.	reversed
Montalet v. Murray		Marshall	none	none	not indicated	dismissed
Strawbridge v. Curtiss		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	affirmed
Gordon v. Caldcleugh		Marshall	none	none	S.C. Ct. Eq.	dismissed
McFerran v. Taylor		Marshall	none	none	D. Ky.	reversed
Wilson v. Speed		Marshall	none	none	D. Ky.	reversed
Buddicum v. Kirk		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Douglass v. McAllister		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Simms v. Slacum		Marshall	none	Paterson	C.C.D.C.	reversed
Harris v. Johnston		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
Dixon's Executors v. Ramsay's Executors		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Scott v. London		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
Wise v. Withers		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
United States v. Grundy		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Baltimore	affirmed
Marine Insurance Company v. Tucker		Johnson	Washington, Cushing, Paterson	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
United States v. Heth		Johnson	Washington, Paterson, Cushing	none	C.C.D. Va.	certification
Manella, Pujals and Company v. Barry		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	affirmed
Ex parte Burford		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	prisoner discharged
Hopkirk v. Bell		per curiam	none	none	C.C.D. Va.	certification
Maley v. Shattuck		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Pa.	reversed
Lawrason v. Mason		Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Knox v. Summers		Washington	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
Sands v. Knox		Marshall	none	none	N.Y.	affirmed
Randolph v. Ware		Paterson	Cushing	none	C.C.D. Va.	affirmed
Winchester v. Jackson		per curiam	none	none	not indicated	dismissed
Field v. Milton		per curiam	none	none	not indicated	certiorari granted