List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 82

This is a list of cases reported in volume 82 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1873.

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, Hannewinkle v. Georgetown is 82 U.S. 547.
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 82 U.S. (15 Wall.)

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 82 U.S. were decided the Court comprised nine of the following ten members at any one time :

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 82 U.S. (15 Wall.)

Case Name	Page & year	Opinion of the Court	Concurring opinion	Dissenting opinion	Lower Court	Disposition
Portland Co. v. United States		Chase	none	none	Ct. Cl.	dismissed
Sioux City & D.R.R. v. Richmond		Chase	none	none	Iowa	dismissal denied
Norwich & W.R.R. v. Johnson		Chase	none	none	Conn.	dismissal denied
Dexter v. Hall		Strong	none	none	C.C.D. Cal.	affirmed
The John Griffin		Miller	none	none	C.C.E.D.N.Y.	reversed
United States v. Kelly		Chase	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Smoot's Case		Miller	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Kearney v. Denn		Swayne	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	affirmed
Maddox v. United States		Davis	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Gray v. Darlington		Field	none	Chase	C.C.E.D. Pa.	affirmed
Tarver v. Keach		Chase	none	none	Tex.	dismissed
Cheney v. Van Arsdale		Strong	none	none	C.C.E.D. Wis.	reversed
Erskine v. Van Arsdale		Chase	none	none	C.C.E.D. Wis.	affirmed
Yosemite Valley Case		Field	none	none	Cal.	affirmed
Chesapeake et al. Co. v. Hill		Bradley	none	Strong	Sup. Ct. D.C.	affirmed
Morgan's Assignees v. Shinn		Strong	none	none	not indicated	affirmed
United States v. Singer		Field	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	reversed
Hedrick v. Hughes		Bradley	none	none	C.C.D. Mo.	affirmed
Bouldin v. Alexander		Strong	none	none	Sup. Ct. D.C.	affirmed
Pickersgill v. Lahens		Davis	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Marshall v. City of Vicksburg		Swayne	none	none	C.C.S.D. Miss.	affirmed
Shutte v. Thompson		Strong	none	none	D.W. Va.	affirmed
Duncan v. Jaudon		Davis	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Brown v. Hiatts		Field	none	none	C.C.D. Kan.	reversed
Gould v. Rees		Clifford	none	none	C.C.W.D. Pa.	reversed
Norwich & W.R.R. Co. v. Johnson		Miller	none	Chase	Conn.	reversed
Pelham v. Way		Strong	none	none	C.C.D. Ind.	affirmed
Reybold v. United States		Davis	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Salomons v. Graham		Chase	none	none	La.	dismissed
Oelrichs v. Spain		Swayne	none	none	Sup. Ct. D.C.	affirmed
Reading R.R. Co. v. Pennsylvania I		Strong	none	none	Pa.	reversed
Erie R.R. Co. v. Pennsylvania I		Strong	none	none	Pa.	reversed
Reading R.R. Co. v. Pennsylvania II		Strong	none	Miller	Pa.	affirmed
Eire R.R. Co. v. Pennsylvania II		Field	none	none	Pa.	reversed
Fowler v. Rapley		Clifford	none	none	Sup. Ct. D.C.	affirmed
United States v. Thomas		Bradley	none	Miller	C.C.M.D. Tenn.	affirmed
Town of Grand Chute v. Winegar I		Hunt	none	none	C.C.E.D. Wis.	affirmed
Town of Grand Chute v. Winegar II		Hunt	none	none	C.C.E.D. Wis.	affirmed
Kimball v. West		Miller	none	none	C.C.D. Mo.	affirmed
Pennywit v. Eaton I		Chase	none	none	Ark.	dismissal denied
Pennywit v. Eaton II		Chase	none	none	Ark.	affirmed
Ex parte Roberts		Chase	none	none	Ct. Cl.	mandamus granted
Moses v. Mayor		Chase	none	none	Ala.	dismissed
City of Davenport v. Dows		Chase	none	none	C.C.D. Iowa	advancement denied
Hall v. Jordan		Chase	none	none	Tenn.	dismissal denied
Montgomery v. United States		Strong	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Washington & G.R.R. Co. v. Gladmon		Hunt	none	none	Sup. Ct. D.C.	affirmed
Tiffany v. Lucas		Davis	none	none	C.C.D. Mo.	affirmed
Graham v. Norton		Chase	Bradley	none	C.C.D. La.	reversed
City of Richmond v. Smith		Clifford	none	Bradley	C.C.D. Va.	affirmed
Hanauer v. Woodruff		Field	Miller	none	C.C.E.D. Ark.	certification
Flanders v. Tweed		Clifford	none	none	C.C.D. La.	reversed
Tomlinson v. Jessup		Field	none	none	C.C.D.S.C.	reversed
Tomlinson v. Branch		Bradley	none	none	C.C.D.S.C.	reversed
City of Charleston v. Branch		Bradley	none	none	C.C.D.S.C.	reversed
Prout v. Roby		Swayne	none	none	Sup. Ct. D.C.	affirmed
Miller v. New York		Clifford	none	Bradley	N.Y. Sup. Ct.	affirmed
Holyoke Co. v. Lyman		Clifford	none	none	Mass.	affirmed
The Nitro-Glycerine Case		Field	none	none	C.C.D. Cal.	affirmed
Deitsch v. Wiggins		Strong	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. Colo.	reversed
Hannewinkle v. City of Georgetown		Hunt	none	none	Sup. Ct. D.C.	affirmed
Riggin v. Magwire		Bradley	none	none	Mo.	affirmed
Frow v. De la Vega		Bradley	none	none	C.C.W.D. Tex.	reversed
Alger v. Alston		Miller	none	none	C.C.D. La.	reversed
Young v. Godbe		Bradley	none	none	C.C.W.D. Tex.	reversed
Tensas Parish v. Britton		Bradley	none	none	C.C.D. La.	reversed
Partridge v. Phoenix M.L. Ins. Co.		Miller	none	none	C.C.D. Mo.	affirmed
Mutual L. Ins. Co. v. Terry		Hunt	none	none	C.C.D. Kan.	affirmed
Brown v. Kennedy		Strong	Davis	none	C.C.D. Kan.	affirmed
Holdane v. Sumner		Bradley	none	none	C.C.D. La.	affirmed
Gunn v. Barry		Swayne	none	none	Ga.	reversed
City of New Orleans v. Gaines		Hunt	none	none	C.C.D. La.	report affirmed
Mead v. Thompson		Strong	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	dismissed
Commercial Bank v. City of Rochester		Miller	none	none	N.Y. Sup. Ct.	dismissed
Cammack v. Lewis		Miller	none	none	Sup. Ct. D.C.	affirmed
New Orleans et al. R.R. Co. v. Hanning		Hunt	none	none	C.C.D. La.	affirmed
United States v. Bennett		Strong	none	none	C.C.S.D. Ohio	reversed
Merchants' M. Ins. Co. v. Lyman		Miller	none	none	C.C.D. La.	reversed
Haffin v. Mason		Davis	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
The Lucille		Hunt	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	affirmed
Burrows v. Marshal		Clifford	none	none	C.C.D.N.C.	dismissed
Hampton v. Rouse		Swayne	none	none	C.C.S.D. Miss.	amendment permitted