List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 98

This is a list of cases reported in volume 98 of the United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1878 and 1879.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of 98 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 98 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
	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
	John Marshall Harlan	Associate Justice	Kentucky	David Davis		– October 14, 1911

Notable Case in 98 U.S.

''Reynolds v. United States''

In Reynolds v. United States,, the Supreme Court held that religious duty was not a defense to a criminal indictment. Reynolds was the first Supreme Court decision to address the First Amendment's protection of Freedom of religion, impartial juries, and the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment.

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 98 U.S.

Case Name	Page & year	Opinion of the Court	Concurring opinion	Dissenting opinion	Lower Court	Disposition
Palmer v. Low		Waite	none	none	C.C.D. Cal.	affirmed
Glenny v. Langdon		Clifford	none	none	C.C.S.D. Ohio	affirmed
Bates v. Coe		Clifford	none	none	C.C.S.D. Ohio	affirmed
Kesner v. Trigg		Swayne	none	none	C.C.W.D. Va.	affirmed
Peters v. Bowman		Swayne	none	none	N.D. Miss.	affirmed
United States v. Throckmorton		Miller	none	none	C.C.D. Cal.	affirmed
Williams v. Hagood		Strong	none	none	C.C.D.S.C.	affirmed
Garratt v. Seibert		Strong	none	none	C.C.D. Cal.	affirmed
Ivinson v. Hutton		Clifford	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. Wyo.	reversed
Snell v. Atlantic et al. Ins. Co.		Harlan	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	reversed
Daviess Cnty. v. Huidekoper		Hunt	none	none	C.C.W.D. Mo.	affirmed
Bradley v. United States		Clifford	none	Miller	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Wirth v. Branson		Bradley	none	none	C.C.S.D. Ill.	affirmed
Second Nat'l Bank v. Ancient Masons		Strong	none	none	C.C.E.D. Mo.	affirmed
Giant P. Co. v. California P. Works		Bradley	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
Citizens' Bank v. Board of Liquid'n		Waite	none	none	La.	dismissed
Dumont v. United States		Bradley	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	reversed
Reynolds v. United States		Field	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. Utah	affirmed
Schuyler Cnty. v. Thomas		Hunt	none	none	C.C.E.D. Mo.	affirmed
Orvis v. Powell		Miller	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
McKnight v. United States		Swayne	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Stewart v. Sonneborn		Strong	none	Bradley	C.C.M.D. Ala.	reversed
Snyder v. Sickles		Clifford	none	none	C.C.E.D. Mo.	affirmed
Elcox v. Hill		Hunt	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
Andreae v. Redfield		Clifford	none	Miller	C.C.N.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Ex parte Schwab		Waite	none	none	C.C.E.D. Mich.	show cause denied
Slaughter v. Glenn		Swayne	none	none	C.C.W.D. Tex.	affirmed
Gifford v. Helms		Clifford	none	none	C.C.M.D. Ala.	reversed
Bowen v. Chase		Bradley	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Beckwith v. Bean		Harlan	none	Field	C.C.D. Vt.	reversed
City of Little Rock v. National Bank		Hunt	none	none	C.C.E.D. Ark.	affirmed
Blake v. Hawkins		Strong	none	none	C.C.E.D.N.C.	reversed
Bank v. McVeigh		Waite	none	none	Va.	dismissed
United States v. Burlington et al. R.R. Co.		Field	none	none	C.C.D. Neb.	affirmed
United States v. Hall		Clifford	none	none	C.C.S.D. Ohio	certification
Atlantic & G.R.R. Co. v. Georgia		Strong	none	none	Ga.	affirmed
Cleveland Ins. Co. v. Globe Ins. Co.		Waite	none	Clifford	C.C.N.D. Ohio	dismissed
United States v. City of New Orleans		Field	none	none	C.C.D. La.	reversed
Baltimore & P.R.R. Co. v. Grant		Waite	none	none	Sup. Ct. D.C.	dismissed
Mississippi et al. Co. v. Patterson		Field	none	none	C.C.D. Minn.	affirmed
Scull v. United States		Miller	none	none	W.D. Mo.	affirmed
United States v. City of Baltimore		Miller	none	none	D. La.	reversed
Foster v. Mora		Miller	none	none	C.C.D. Cal.	affirmed
United States v. Perot		Bradley	none	none	D. La.	affirmed
Carr v. United States		Bradley	none	none	C.C.D. Cal.	affirmed
The Abbotsford		Waite	none	none	C.C.E.D. Pa.	affirmed
United States v. Benecke		Miller	none	none	C.C.W.D. Mo.	certification
United States v. Irvine		Miller	none	none	C.C.W.D. Mo.	certification
Jennison v. Kirk		Field	none	none	Cal.	affirmed
Flagstaff S.M. Co. v. Tarbet		Bradley	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. Utah	affirmed
Amy v. City of Dubuque		Harlan	none	none	C.C.D. Iowa	affirmed
Harkness v. Hyde		Field	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. Idaho	reversed
Railroad Co. v. Varnell		Clifford	none	none	Sup. Ct. D.C.	affirmed
United States v. Thompson		Swayne	none	none	C.C.D. Minn.	reversed
Airhart v. Massieu		Bradley	none	none	C.C.W.D. Tex.	reversed
Reed v. McIntyre		Harlan	none	none	C.C.D. Minn.	affirmed
Brick v. Brick		Field	none	none	Sup. Ct. D.C.	reversed
De Treville v. Smalls		Strong	none	none	C.C.D.S.C.	affirmed
Hooper v. Robinson		Swayne	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	reversed
Union P.R.R. Co. v. Dodge Cnty.		Waite	none	none	C.C.D. Neb.	affirmed
Hendrie v. Sayles		Clifford	none	none	C.C.E.D. Mich.	affirmed
Barnet v. Second Nat'l Bank		Swayne	none	none	C.C.S.D. Ohio	affirmed
St. Louis et al. Ry. Co. v. Loftin		Waite	none	none	Ark.	affirmed
United States v. Sherman		Strong	none	none	Sup. Ct. D.C.	affirmed
United States v. Union P.R.R. Co.		Miller	none	Swayne	C.C.D. Conn.	affirmed
Union Nat'l Bank v. Matthews		Swayne	none	Miller	Mo.	reversed