| Case name |
Citation |
Summary |
| Totten v. United States |
92 U.S. 105 (1875) |
jurisdiction over espionage agreements |
| 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 |
| Pennoyer v. Neff |
95 U.S. 714 (1877) |
bases of personal jurisdiction over defendants |
| 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 |
| Reynolds v. United States |
98 U.S. 145 (1878) |
polygamy and freedom of religion |
| Wilkerson v. Utah |
99 U.S. 130 (1878) |
capital punishment |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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) |
citzenship 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. |
| 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. |
| Avegno v. Schmidt |
113 U.S. 293 (1885) |
title to mortgaged property confiscated by the U.S. government during the Civil War |
| Baylis v. Travellers' Ins. Co. |
113 U.S. 316 (1885) |
right to trial by jury in a civil case |
| Railroad Commission Cases |
116 U.S. 307 (1886) |
contracts, police power, regulation of transport |
| Yick Wo v. Hopkins |
118 U.S. 356 (1886) |
equal protection, facially-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 Railroad 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 |
| The Telephone Cases |
126 U.S. 1 (1888) |
patent law |
