List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 92

This is a list of cases reported in volume 92 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1876, along with two cases from 1875.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of 92 U.S.

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 92 U.S. were decided the Court comprised the following nine members:

Portrait	Justice	Office	Home State	Succeeded	Date confirmed by the Senate	Tenure on Supreme Court
	Morrison Waite	Chief Justice	Ohio	Salmon P. Chase		– March 23, 1888
	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
	William Strong	Associate Justice	Pennsylvania	Robert Cooper Grier		– December 14, 1880
	Joseph P. Bradley	Associate Justice	New Jersey	newly created seat		– January 22, 1892
	Ward Hunt	Associate Justice	New York	Samuel Nelson		– January 27, 1882

Notable Cases in 92 U.S.

''United States v. Reese''

United States v. Reese,, was a voting rights case in which the Supreme Court narrowly construed the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which provides that suffrage for citizens can not be restricted due to race, color, or the individual having previously been a slave. The Court held that the 15th Amendment did not confer the right of suffrage, but only prohibited exclusion on racial grounds from a pre-existing right to vote.

''Chy Lung v Freeman''

Chy Lung v. Freeman,, involved 22 women from China, including Chy Lung, among the passengers on the steamer Japan that journeyed from China to San Francisco, arriving in 1875. The immigration commissioner examined the passengers and, acting under a California statute, identified Chy Lung and the others as "lewd and debauched women". The captain detained the women on board. The women obtained a writ of habeas corpus, which led to them being moved into the custody of the Sheriff of San Francisco, where they stayed awaiting deportation upon the return of Japan, which had already left for China. The women refused to be deported to China and appealed the decision to deport them. The California Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the statute that was used to deny them entry, and it upheld their deportation. The women appealed the decision in the US Supreme Court. The Court decided unanimously in favor of Chy Lung. It held that the federal government, and not state governments, was in charge of immigration policy and diplomatic relations with other nations; it was not up to California to impose restrictions on Chinese immigration.

''United States v. Cruikshank''

In United States v. Cruikshank,, the Court held that the Bill of Rights did not apply to private actors or to state governments despite the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment. The decision represented a major blow to federal efforts to protect the civil rights of African Americans. The case arose from the hotly-disputed 1872 Louisiana gubernatorial election and the subsequent Colfax massacre, in which dozens of black people and three white people were killed. Federal charges were brought against several white insurgents under the Enforcement Act of 1870, which prohibited two or more people from conspiring to deprive anyone of their constitutional rights. Charges included hindering the freedmen's First Amendment right to freely assemble and their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. In his majority opinion, Chief Justice Morrison Waite overturned the convictions of the defendants, holding that the plaintiffs had to rely on state courts for protection. Waite opined that neither the First Amendment nor the Second Amendment applied to the actions of state governments or to individuals, but only to the federal government; also that the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment applied to the actions of state governments, but not to individuals. The decision left African Americans in the South at the mercy of increasingly hostile state governments dominated by white Democratic legislatures, and allowed groups such as the Ku Klux Klan to continue to use paramilitary force to suppress black voting.

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 92 U.S.

Case Name	Page and year	Opinion of the Court	Concurring opinion	Dissenting opinion	Lower Court	Disposition
Blease v. Garlington		Waite	none	none	C.C.D.S.C.	affirmed
Gaines v. Fuentes		Field	none	Bradley	La.	reversed
Hall v. United States		Swayne	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
The City of Washington		Clifford	none	none	C.C.E.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Roberts v. United States		Bradley	none	Swayne	Ct. Cl.	reversed
Farnsworth v. Minnesota and Pacific Railroad Company		Field	none	none	C.C.D. Minn.	affirmed
Shuey v. United States		Strong	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
United States v. Landers		Field	none	none	Ct. Cl.	reversed
O'Brien v. Weld		Hunt	none	none	N.Y. Sup. Ct.	reversed
Cheatham v. United States		Miller	none	none	C.C.M.D. Tenn.	affirmed
Walker v. Sauvinet		Waite	none	none	La.	affirmed
Magee v. Manhattan Life Insurance Company		Swayne	none	none	C.C.S.D. Ala.	affirmed
Neblett v. MacFarland		Hunt	none	none	C.C.D. La.	affirmed
Totten v. United States		Field	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Stott v. Rutherford		Swayne	none	none	Sup. Ct. D.C.	reversed
Harrison v. Myer		Clifford	none	none	La.	affirmed
Kittredge v. Race		Bradley	none	none	C.C.D. La.	affirmed
First National Bank v. National Exchange Bank		Waite	none	none	Md.	affirmed
Rockhold v. Rockhold		Waite	none	none	Tenn.	dismissed
Phillips v. Payne		Swayne	none	none	Sup. Ct. D.C.	affirmed
Wills v. Claflin		Davis	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
Markey v. Langley		Swayne	none	none	C.C.D.S.C.	affirmed
Terry v. Tubman		Hunt	none	none	C.C.S.D. Ga.	affirmed
Hoffman v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company		Swayne	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ohio	affirmed
Whitfield v. United States		Waite	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Carey v. Brown		Swayne	none	none	C.C.D. La.	affirmed
Baker v. White		Miller	none	none	C.C.D. Conn.	dismissed
Burbank v. Bigelow		Bradley	none	none	C.C.D. La.	reversed
Smith v. Vodges		Swayne	none	none	C.C.E.D. Pa.	reversed
Lamar v. Browne		Waite	none	Field	C.C.D. Mass.	affirmed
Wallach v. Van Riswick		Strong	none	none	Sup. Ct. D.C.	reversed
United States v. Reese		Waite	none	Clifford; Hunt	C.C.D. Ky.	affirmed
Montgomery v. Bucyrus Machine Works		Davis	none	none	C.C.W.D. Mo.	affirmed
Henderson v. City of New York		Miller	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	reversed
Chy Lung v. Freeman		Miller	none	none	Cal.	reversed
United States v. Ross		Strong	none	none	Ct. Cl.	reversed
New York Life Insurance Company v. Hendren		Waite	none	Bradley	Va.	dismissed
Elmwood Township v. Marcy		Davis	none	Strong	C.C.N.D. Ill.	reversed
Chamberlain v. St. Paul and Sioux City Railroad Company		Field	none	none	C.C.D. Minn.	affirmed
Laramie County v. Albany County		Clifford	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. Wyo.	affirmed
Republican River Bridge Company v. Kansas Pacific Railway Company		Miller	none	none	Kan.	affirmed
Wilson v. Boyce		Hunt	none	none	C.C.E.D. Mo.	affirmed
Brown v. Atwell		Waite	none	none	N.Y. Sup. Ct.	dismissed
Angle v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company		Clifford	none	none	C.C.D. Iowa	reversed
Oaksmith's Lessee v. Johnson		Field	none	none	Sup. Ct. D.C.	affirmed
Reckendorfer v. Faber		Hunt	none	Strong	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Potts v. Chumasero		Waite	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. Mont.	dismissed
Scammon v. Kimball		Clifford	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	reversed
Pace v. Burgess		Bradley	none	none	C.C.E.D. Va.	affirmed
Piedmont and Arlington Life Insurance Company v. Ewing		Miller	none	none	C.C.W.D. Mo.	reversed
Savage v. United States		Clifford	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Smeltzer v. White		Strong	none	none	C.C.D. Iowa	affirmed
Hobson v. Lord		Clifford	none	Bradley	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Butler v. Thomson		Hunt	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	reversed
Clements v. Macheboeuf		Clifford	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. Colo.	affirmed
Ives v. Hamilton		Bradley	none	none	C.C.E.D. Mich.	affirmed
The America		Clifford	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	reversed
The Galatea		Clifford	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	reversed
Otis v. Cullum		Swayne	none	none	C.C.D. Kan.	affirmed
Barney v. Watson		Bradley	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	reversed
Terry v. Commercial Bank of Alabama		Miller	none	none	C.C.S.D. Ala.	affirmed
Williams v. United States		Clifford	none	none	D. Cal.	affirmed
City of St Louis v. United States		Miller	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Tyng v. Grinnell		Clifford	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Miller v. Dale		Field	none	none	Cal.	affirmed
Kennard v. Louisiana ex rel. Morgan		Waite	none	none	La.	affirmed
Town of Coloma v. Eaves		Strong	Bradley	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
Town of Venice v. Murdock		Strong	none	none	C.C.N.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Town of Genoa v. Woodruff		Strong	none	none	C.C.N.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Converse v. City of Ft. Scott		Strong	none	none	C.C.N.D. Kan.	reversed
Carrol v. Green		Swayne	none	none	C.C.D.S.C.	reversed
Franklin Fire Insurance Company v. Vaughan		Hunt	none	none	C.C.E.D. Ark.	affirmed
United States v. Diekelman		Waite	none	none	Ct. Cl.	reversed
Board of Liquidation of Louisiana v. McComb		Bradley	none	none	C.C.D. La.	multiple
United States v. Cruikshank		Waite	none	Clifford	C.C.D. La.	affirmed
Harshman v. Bates County		Bradley	none	none	C.C.W.D. Mo.	affirmed
State Railroad Tax Cases		Miller	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	reversed
Lewis v. United States		Swayne	none	none	C.C.E.D. Pa.	affirmed
Town of Concord v. Portsmouth Savings Bank		Strong	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	reversed
Moultrie County v. Rockingham Ten-Cent Savings Bank		Strong	none	none	C.C.S.D. Ill.	affirmed
Marcy v. Oswego Township		Strong	none	none	C.C.D. Kan.	reversed
Humboldt Township v. Long		Strong	none	Miller	C.C.D. Kan.	affirmed
Intermingled Cotton Cases		Waite	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Morrison v. Jackson		Clifford	none	none	C.C.E.D. Mo.	affirmed
[Central of Georgia (U.S. state)\|Georgia Railway\|Central Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia] v. Georgia		Strong	none	none	Ga.	reversed
South-Western Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia v. Georgia		Strong	none	none	Ga.	reversed
Branch v. City of Charleston		Bradley	none	none	C.C.D.S.C.	affirmed
Garsed v. Beall		Clifford	none	none	C.C.S.D. Ga.	affirmed
The Alabama		Bradley	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	reversed
Hot Springs Cases		Bradley	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Burdell v. Denig		Miller	none	none	C.C.S.D. Ohio	reversed
McStay v. Friedman		Waite	none	none	Cal.	dismissed
Hammond v. Mason and Hamlin Organ Company		Miller	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	affirmed
Hall v. Weare		Strong	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	reversed
Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston Railroad Company v. United States		Davis	none	Field	C.C.D. Kan.	affirmed
Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railway Company v. United States		Davis	none	none	C.C.D. Kan.	affirmed
Newhall v. Sanger		Davis	none	Field	C.C.D. Cal.	reversed