| Location: | Washington, D.C. |
| Type: | Presidential nomination with Senate confirmation |
| Authority: | Constitution of the United States, Art. III, §1 |
| Terms: | life tenure, subject to impeachment and removal |
| Positions: | 9 (by statute) |
This is a list of cases reported in volume 258 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1922.
See also: List of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.
See also: List of United States Supreme Court justices by time in office.
See also: List of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States by court composition.
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 (one chief justice and five associate justices).[1] Since 1789 Congress has varied the size of the Court from six to seven, nine, ten, and back to nine justices (always including one chief justice).
When the cases in volume 258 were decided the Court comprised the following nine members:
Fairchild v. Hughes, 258 U.S. 126 (1922), and Leser v. Garnett, 258 U.S. 130 (1922), are a pair of cases regarding the Nineteenth Amendment. The Court ruled that Fairchild, as a private citizen, lacked standing to challenge the amendment's ratification under the limitations of the Case or Controversy Clause of Article III.[2] Fairchild marked a departure from prior doctrine, which had allowed any citizen to sue to preserve a public right.[3]
In a companion case, Leser v. Garnett, the Court upheld the ratification of the amendment.[4] [5] [6]
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See also: United States court of appeals.
See also: United States federal courts. 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 (from the US District Courts) 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 (i.e., in which cases could be filed directly with the Supreme Court without first having been heard by a lower federal or state court). There were one or more federal District Courts and/or Circuit Courts in each state, territory, or other geographical region.
The Judiciary Act of 1891 created the United States Courts of Appeals and reassigned the jurisdiction of most routine appeals from the district and circuit courts to these appellate courts. The Act created nine new courts that were originally known as the "United States Circuit Courts of Appeals." The new courts had jurisdiction over most appeals of lower court decisions. The Supreme Court could review either legal issues that a court of appeals certified or decisions of court of appeals by writ of certiorari. On January 1, 1912, the effective date of the Judicial Code of 1911, the old Circuit Courts were abolished, with their remaining trial court jurisdiction transferred to the U.S. District Courts.
Bluebook citation style is used for case names, citations, and jurisdictions.
| Case Name | Page and year | Opinion of the Court | Concurring opinion(s) | Dissenting opinion(s) | Lower Court | Disposition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hawes v. Georgia | 1 (1922) | McKenna | none | none | Ga. | affirmed |
| McArthur Brothers Company v. United States | 6 (1922) | McKenna | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| Western Union Telegraph Company v. Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company | 13 (1922) | McKenna | none | none | W.D. Ky. | affirmed |
| Gooch v. Oregon Short Line Railroad Company | 22 (1922) | Holmes | none | Clarke | 9th Cir. | affirmed |
| New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company v. United States | 32 (1922) | Holmes | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| Burrill v. Locomobile Company | 34 (1922) | Holmes | none | none | D. Mass. | reversed |
| John L. Whiting -- J.J. Adams Company v. Burrill | 39 (1922) | Holmes | none | none | affirmed | |
| Jones v. United States | 40 (1922) | Holmes | none | none | affirmed | |
| Lemke v. Farmers Grain Company | 50 (1922) | Day | none | Brandeis | affirmed | |
| Lemke v. Homer Farmers Elevator Company | 65 (1922) | Day | none | none | affirmed | |
| Crichton v. Wingfield | 66 (1922) | Day | none | none | affirmed | |
| Schaff v. J.C. Famechon Company | 76 (1922) | Day | none | none | Minn. | dismissed |
| John Simmons Company v. Grier Brothers Company | 82 (1922) | Pitney | none | none | 3d Cir. | reversed |
| Reed v. Director General of Railroads | 92 (1922) | McReynolds | none | none | Pa. | reversed |
| New Bedford Dry Dock Company v. Purdy | 96 (1922) | McReynolds | none | none | D. Mass. | reversed |
| Alaska v. Troy | 101 (1922) | McReynolds | none | none | affirmed | |
| Bank of Jasper v. First National Bank of Rome | 112 (1922) | Brandeis | none | none | affirmed | |
| Wood v. United States | 120 (1922) | Brandeis | none | none | affirmed | |
| Keokuk and Hamilton Bridge Company v. Salm | 122 (1922) | Brandeis | none | none | affirmed | |
| Fairchild v. Hughes | 126 (1922) | Brandeis | none | none | affirmed | |
| Leser v. Garnett | 130 (1922) | Brandeis | none | none | affirmed | |
| Leach v. Carlile | 138 (1922) | Clarke | none | Holmes | affirmed | |
| Crane v. Hahlo | 142 (1922) | Clarke | none | none | affirmed | |
| Minnesota v. Wisconsin | 149 (1922) | per curiam | none | none | boundary set | |
| Texas v. Interstate Commerce Commission | 158 (1922) | VanDevanter | none | none | original | dismissed |
| Newton v. Consolidated Gas Company of New York | 165 (1922) | McReynolds | none | none | multiple | |
| Newton, Attorney General of New York v. New York and Queens Gas Company | 178 (1922) | McReynolds | none | none | affirmed | |
| Newton, Attorney General of New York v. Kings County Lighting Company | 180 (1922) | McReynolds | none | none | affirmed | |
| Howat v. Kansas | 181 (1922) | Taft | none | none | Kan. | dismissed |
| Atchafalaya Land Company, Ltd. v. F.B. Williams Cypress Company, Ltd. | 190 (1922) | McKenna | none | none | affirmed | |
| Levinson v. United States | 198 (1922) | Holmes | none | McKenna | 2d Cir. | reversed |
| Texas v. Eastern Texas Railroad Company | 204 (1922) | VanDevanter | none | none | E.D. Tex. | reversed |
| Irwin v. Wright | 219 (1922) | Taft | none | none | D. Ariz. | reversed |
| Oklahoma Natural Gas Company v. Oklahoma | 234 (1922) | McKenna | none | none | affirmed | |
| First National Bank v. J.L. Mott Iron Works | 240 (1922) | Holmes | none | none | affirmed | |
| Levy Leasing Company, Inc. v. Siegel | 242 (1922) | Clarke | none | none | affirmed | |
| United States v. Balint | 250 (1922) | Taft | none | none | S.D.N.Y. | reversed |
| Ponzi v. Fessenden | 254 (1922) | Taft | none | none | certification | |
| Pacific Mail Steamship Company v. Lucas | 266 (1922) | Holmes | none | none | affirmed | |
| United Zinc and Chemical Company v. Britt | 268 (1922) | Holmes | none | Clarke | 8th Cir. | reversed |
| United States v. Behrman | 280 (1922) | Day | none | Holmes | S.D.N.Y. | reversed |
| Hump Hairpin Manufacturing Company v. Emmerson | 290 (1922) | Clarke | none | none | affirmed | |
| Wallace v. United States | 296 (1922) | Taft | none | none | Ct. Cl. | rehearing denied |
| Balzac v. Porto Rico | 298 (1922) | Taft | none | none | affirmed | |
| Ferry v. Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Company | 314 (1922) | McKenna | none | none | affirmed | |
| United States v. Bethlehem Steel Company | 321 (1922) | McKenna | none | none | affirmed | |
| Bankers Trust Company v. City of Raton | 328 (1922) | McKenna | none | none | affirmed | |
| Forbes Pioneer Boat Line v. Everglades Drainage District | 338 (1922) | Holmes | none | none | Fla. | reversed |
| White Oak Transportation Company v. Boston, Cape Cod and New York Canal Company | 341 (1922) | Holmes | none | none | 1st Cir. | reversed |
| Standard Fashion Company v. Magrane-Houston Company | 346 (1922) | Day | none | none | affirmed | |
| Essanay Film Manufacturing Company v. Kane | 358 (1922) | Pitney | none | none | affirmed | |
| First National Bank of Gulfport v. Adams | 362 (1922) | McReynolds | none | none | Miss. | reversed |
| Exporters of Manufacturers' Products v. Butterworth-Judson Company | 365 (1922) | McReynolds | none | none | certification | |
| Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company v. Whitnack Company | 369 (1922) | McReynolds | none | none | affirmed | |
| Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company v. United States | 374 (1922) | Brandeis | none | none | remanded | |
| Lambert Run Coal Company v. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company | 377 (1922) | Brandeis | none | none | affirmed | |
| Greiner v. Lewellyn | 384 (1922) | Brandeis | none | none | affirmed | |
| Galveston Electric Company v. City of Galveston | 388 (1922) | Brandeis | none | none | affirmed | |
| Vigliotti v. Pennsylvania | 403 (1922) | Brandeis | none | none | affirmed | |
| Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation Company v. McGinn | 409 (1922) | Clarke | none | none | 9th Cir. | reversed |
| Collins v. McDonald | 416 (1922) | Clarke | none | none | affirmed | |
| Dahn v. Davis | 421 (1922) | Clarke | none | none | affirmed | |
| United States v. Moreland | 433 (1922) | McKenna | none | Brandeis | affirmed | |
| United Shoe Machinery Corporation v. United States | 451 (1922) | Day | none | none | affirmed | |
| Texas Company v. Brown | 466 (1922) | Pitney | none | none | affirmed | |
| Federal Trade Commission v. Winsted Hosiery Company | 483 (1922) | Brandeis | none | none | 2d Cir. | reversed |
| Stafford v. Wallace | 495 (1922) | Taft | none | none | affirmed | |
| Shwab v. Doyle | 529 (1922) | McKenna | none | none | 6th Cir. | reversed |
| Union Trust Company v. Wardell, Collector of Internal Revenue | 537 (1922) | McKenna | none | none | N.D. Cal. | reversed |
| Levy v. Wardell, Collector of Internal Revenue | 542 (1922) | McKenna | none | none | 2d Cir. | reversed |
| Knox v. McElligott | 546 (1922) | McKenna | none | none | 2d Cir. | reversed |
| Sloan Shipyards Corporation v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation | 549 (1922) | Holmes | none | Taft | multiple | |
| Oklahoma v. Texas | 574 (1922) | VanDevanter | none | none | continued | |