List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Waite Court

Supreme Court of the United States
Waite Court
Chase Court ← → Fuller Court
	March 4, 1874 – March 23, 1888; (14 years, 19 days)
Seat	Old Senate Chamber; Washington, D.C.
No. of positions	9
	Waite Court decisions

This is a partial chronological list of cases decided by the United States Supreme Court during the tenure of Chief Justice Morrison Waite from March 4, 1874, through March 23, 1888.

Case name	Citation	Summary
Totten v. United States	92 U.S. 105 (1875)	jurisdiction over espionage agreements
Rubber-Tip Pencil Co. v. Howard	87 U.S. 498 (1874)
Murdock v. City of Memphis	87 U.S. 590 (1875)
Minor v. Happersett	88 U.S. 162 (1875)	Fourteenth Amendment and the right of women to vote
Kohl v. United States	91 U.S. 367 (1875)	Eminent domain
Phillips v. Payne	92 U.S. 105 (1875)
United States v. Reese	92 U.S. 214 (1876)
Chy Lung v. Freeman	92 U.S. 275 (1876)	Federal power to set rules surrounding immigration
United States v. Cruikshank	92 U.S. 542 (1875)	application of the First and Second Amendments to the states
Munn v. Illinois	94 U.S. 113 (1876)	corporations and agricultural regulation
Cochrane v. Deener	94 U.S. 780 (1876)
Mobile Life Insurance Co. v. Brame	95 U.S. 754 (1877)
Pennoyer v. Neff	95 U.S. 714 (1877)	bases of personal jurisdiction over defendants
Davidson v. City of New Orleans	96 U.S. 97 (1878)
City of Elizabeth v. American Nicholson Pavement Co.	97 U.S. 126 (1878)	experimental use exception to the on-sale bar in United States patent law
United States v. Throckmorton	98 U.S. 61 (1878)	Intrinsic and extrinsic fraud distinguished
Reynolds v. United States	98 U.S. 145 (1878)	polygamy and freedom of religion
Wilkerson v. Utah	99 U.S. 130 (1878)	capital punishment
Trade-Mark Cases	100 U.S. 82 (1879)	Copyright Clause does not give Congress the power to regulate trademarks
Baker v. Selden	101 U.S. 99 (1879)	differences between copyright & patent law
Strauder v. West Virginia	100 U.S. 303 (1880)	exclusion of blacks from juries
Springer v. United States	102 U.S. 586 (1881)	constitutionality of income tax set up by the Revenue Act of 1864
Kilbourn v. Thompson	103 U.S. 168 (1880)	limitations on Congressional investigations
Egbert v. Lippmann	104 U.S. 333 (1881)	early case concerning the on-sale bar in patent law
United States v. McBratney	104 U.S. 621 (1881)
United States v. Lee	106 U.S. 196 (1882)
Ex parte Curtis	106 U.S. 371 (1882)
Pace v. Alabama	106 U.S. 583 (1883)	affirmed that Alabama's anti-miscegenation statute banning interracial marriage and interracial sex was not a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
United States v. Harris (the Ku Klux Case)	106 U.S. 629 (1883)	No Congressional power to pass ordinary criminal statutes
Civil Rights Cases	109 U.S. 3 (1883)	power of federal government to prohibit racial discrimination by private parties
Ex parte Crow Dog	109 U.S. 556 (1883)	repeal of law dealing with Native American Indians requires express language by Congress
Kellogg Bridge Co. v. Hamilton	110 U.S. 108 (1884)
Juilliard v. Greenman	110 U.S. 421 (1884)
Hurtado v. California	110 U.S. 516 (1884)	no requirement that states use a grand jury to indict a defendant in a murder prosecution
Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony	111 U.S. 53 (1884)	copyrightability of photographs
New England Mutual Life Insurance Co. v. Woodworth	111 U.S. 138 (1884)	insurance law
Elk v. Wilkins	112 U.S. 94 (1884)	citizenship of Native Americans
Head Money Cases	112 U.S. 580 (1884)	treaties
Cole v. La Grange	113 U.S. 1 (1885)	the court held that the Missouri legislature could not authorize a city to issue bonds to assist corporations in their private business.
Head v. Amoskeag Manufacturing Co.	113 U.S. 9 (1885)
Barbier v. Connolly	113 U.S. 27 (1885)
Liverpool, New York & Philadelphia Steamship Co. v. Commissioners of Emigration	113 U.S. 33 (1885)
Davison v. Von Lingen	113 U.S. 40 (1885)
Drennen v. London Assurance Co.	113 U.S. 51 (1885)
Hollister v. Benedict & Burnham Manufacturing Co.	113 U.S. 59 (1885)
Hess v. Reynolds	113 U.S. 73 (1885)
Polleys v. Black River Improvement Co.	113 U.S. 81 (1885)
Pullman Palace Car Co. v. Speck	113 U.S. 84 (1885)
Griffith v. Godey	113 U.S. 89 (1885)
Rowell v. Lindsay	113 U.S. 97 (1885)
Findlay v. McAllister	113 U.S. 104 (1885)
Central Railroad & Banking Co. of Ga. v. Pettus	113 U.S. 116 (1885)	An appeal regarding monies owed and a lein upon the roadbed, depots, side tracks, turnouts, trestles, and bridges owned and used by the appellants.
Steele v. United States	113 U.S. 128 (1885)
Clawson v. United States	113 U.S. 143 (1885)
Bicknell v. Comstock	113 U.S. 149 (1885)
United States v. Mueller	113 U.S. 153 (1885)
Consolidated Safety-Valve Co. v. Crosby Steam Gauge & Valve Co.	113 U.S. 157 (1885)
Bryan v. Kennett	113 U.S. 179 (1885)
Northern Liberty Market Co. v. Kelly	113 U.S. 199 (1885)
Tucker v. Masser	113 U.S. 203 (1885)
Cardwell v. American Bridge Co.	113 U.S. 205 (1885)
Voss v. Fisher	113 U.S. 213 (1885)
Price v. Pennsylvania Railroad Co.	113 U.S. 218 (1885)
Dakota County v. Glidden	113 U.S. 222 (1885)
Caillot v. Deetken	113 U.S. 215 (1885)
Cheong Ah Moy v. United States	113 U.S. 216 (1885)
Anderson County Commissioners v. Beal	113 U.S. 227 (1885)
Harvey v. United States	113 U.S. 243 (1885)
Central Railroad Co. of New Jersey v. Mills	113 U.S. 249 (1885)
Presser v. Illinois	116 U.S. 252 (1886)
Looney v. District of Columbia	113 U.S. 258 (1885)
Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Co. v. United States	113 U.S. 261 (1885)
Coon v. Wilson	113 U.S. 268 (1885)
Spaids v. Cooley	113 U.S. 278 (1885)
Sully v. Drennan	113 U.S. 287 (1885)
Avegno v. Schmidt	113 U.S. 293 (1885)	title to mortgaged property confiscated by the U.S. government during the Civil War
Stone v. Chisolm	113 U.S. 302 (1885)
Thornley v. United States	113 U.S. 310 (1885)
Baylis v. Travellers' Ins. Co.	113 U.S. 316 (1885)	right to trial by jury in a civil case
Pneumatic Gas Co. v. Berry	113 U.S. 322 (1885)
Ex parte Bigelow	113 U.S. 328 (1885)
City of Quincy v. Jackson	113 U.S. 332 (1885)
Town of Santa Anna v. Frank	113 U.S. 339 (1885)
McArthur v. Scott	113 U.S. 340 (1885)
Cannon v. United States	118 U.S. 355 (1885)
Hyatt v. Vincennes National Bank	113 U.S. 408 (1885)
United States v. Jordan	113 U.S. 418 (1885)
Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. v. Crane	113 U.S. 424 (1885)
Prentice v. Stearns	113 U.S. 435 (1885)
Morgan v. Hamlet	113 U.S. 449 (1885)
Chase v. Curtis	113 U.S. 452 (1885)
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Berry	113 U.S. 465 (1885)
Morgan v. United States	113 U.S. 476 (1885)
Provident Institution for Savings v. Mayor of Jersey City	113 U.S. 506 (1885)
Union Pacific Railway Co. v. Cheyenne	113 U.S. 516 (1885)
Erhardt v. Boaro, (113 U.S. 527)	113 U.S. 527 (1885)
Erhardt v. Boaro, (113 U.S. 537)	113 U.S. 537 (1885)
Richards v. Mackall	113 U.S. 539 (1885)
Peugh v. Davis	113 U.S. 542 (1885)
Gumbel v. Pitkin	113 U.S. 545 (1885)
Fussell v. Gregg	113 U.S. 550 (1885)
City of St. Louis v. Myers	113 U.S. 566 (1885)
Brown v. United States	113 U.S. 568 (1885)
Chicago Life Insurance Co. v. Needles	113 U.S. 574 (1885)
Pearce v. Ham	113 U.S. 585 (1885)
Ayers v. Watson	113 U.S. 594 (1885)
California Artificial Stone Paving Co. v. Molitor	113 U.S. 609 (1885)	Patent infringement case on an improvement in concrete paving
Winona & St. Peter R. Co. v. Barney	113 U.S. 618 (1885)	Public land grant for Railroad construction
Kansas Pacific R. Co. v. Dunmeyer	113 U.S. 629 (1885)	Land ownership dispute
Schmieder v. Barney	113 U.S. 645 (1885)	case regarding description of articles subject to duty
Camp v. United States	113 U.S. 648 (1885)	case to recover an alleged balance due as compensation for collecting and delivering to the United States a large amount of cotton in bales which was captured and abandoned property
Maxwell's Executors v. Wilkinson	113 U.S. 656 (1885)	writ of error brought by the executors of a former collector of the port of New York to reverse a judgment in an action brought against him by the defendant in error to recover duties paid by them on imported iron
Flagg v. Walker	113 U.S. 659 (1885)	case where the deeds for several parcels of land were transferred from Flagg, who was in financial difficulty, to Walker in return for paying off Flagg's debts and profits from the sale against a mortgage for other property owned by Flagg.
Blake v. City and County of San Francisco	113 U.S. 679 (1885)
Fourth National Bank of St. Louis v. Stout	113 U.S. 684 (1885)
Boyer v. Boyer	113 U.S. 689 (1885)
Soon Hing v. Crowley	113 U.S. 703 (1885)
United States v. Indianapolis & St. Louis Railroad Co.	113 U.S. 711 (1885)
Ex parte Fisk	113 U.S. 713 (1885)
Cooper Manufacturing Co. v. Ferguson	113 U.S. 727 (1885)
Carter v. Burr	113 U.S. 737 (1885)
Gregory v. Hartley	113 U.S. 742 (1885)
United States v. Steever	113 U.S. 747 (1885)
Hardin v. Boyd	113 U.S. 756 (1885)
Presser v. Illinois	116 U.S. 252 (1886)	Application of the 2nd Amendment to the states
Railroad Commission Cases	116 U.S. 307 (1886)	contracts, police power, regulation of transport
Boyd v. United States	116 U.S. 616 (1886)
Yick Wo v. Hopkins	118 U.S. 356 (1886)	equal protection, racially neutral laws administered in a discriminatory manner
United States v. Kagama	118 U.S. 375 (1886)	federal court jurisdiction over crimes committed on Indian reservations
Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad	118 U.S. 394 (1886)	corporate personhood
Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Company v. Illinois	118 U.S. 557 (1886)	regulation of interstate commerce by individual states, creation of ICC
Ker v. Illinois	119 U.S. 436 (1886)	legality of abduction of criminal suspect abroad
Ex parte Bain	121 U.S. 1 (1887)
Runkle v. United States	122 U.S. 543 (1887)	the president cannot delegate the power vested in him to pass finally upon the sentence when he is the only person to whom has been committed the judicial power of making a final determination
The Telephone Cases	126 U.S. 1 (1888)	patent law