| Case name |
Citation |
Summary |
| California Artificial Stone Paving Co. v. Molitor |
1885 |
Patent infringement case on an improvement in concrete paving |
| Baylis v. Travellers' Ins. Co. |
1885 |
right to trial by jury in a civil case |
| Avegno v. Schmidt |
1885 |
title to mortgaged property confiscated by the U.S. government during the Civil War |
| Central Railroad & Banking Co. of Ga. v. Pettus |
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. |
| Cole v. La Grange |
1885 |
the court held that the Missouri legislature could not authorize a city to issue bonds to assist corporations in their private business. |
| Head Money Cases |
1884 |
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| Elk v. Wilkins |
1884 |
citizenship of native Americans |
| New England Mutual Life Insurance Co. v. Woodworth |
1884 |
insurance law |
| Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony |
1884 |
copyrightability of photographs |
| Hurtado v. California |
1884 |
no requirement that states use a grand jury to indict a defendant in a murder prosecution |
| Ex parte Crow Dog |
1883 |
repeal of law dealing with Native American Indians requires express language by Congress |
| Civil Rights Cases |
1883 |
power of federal government to prohibit racial discrimination by private parties |
| United States v. Harris |
1883 |
No Congressional power to pass ordinary criminal statutes |
| Pace v. Alabama |
1883 |
affirmed that Alabama's anti-miscegenation statute banning interracial marriage and interracial sex was not a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. |
| Egbert v. Lippmann |
1881 |
early case concerning the on-sale bar in patent law |
| Kilbourn v. Thompson |
1880 |
limitations on Congressional investigations |
| Springer v. United States |
1881 |
constitutionality of income tax set up by the Revenue Act of 1864 |
| Strauder v. West Virginia |
1880 |
exclusion of blacks from juries |
| Baker v. Selden |
1879 |
differences between copyright & patent law |
| Trade-Mark Cases |
1879 |
Copyright Clause does not give Congress the power to regulate trademarks |