List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 31

Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court of the United States
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This is a list of cases reported in volume 31 (6 Pet.) of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1832.^[1]

Nominative reports

In 1874, the U.S. government created the United States Reports, and retroactively numbered older privately-published case reports as part of the new series. As a result, cases appearing in volumes 1–90 of U.S. Reports have dual citation forms; one for the volume number of U.S. Reports, and one for the volume number of the reports named for the relevant reporter of decisions (these are called "nominative reports").

Richard Peters, Jr.

Starting with the 26th volume of U.S. Reports, the Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States was Richard Peters, Jr. Peters was Reporter of Decisions from 1828 to 1843, covering volumes 26 through 41 of United States Reports which correspond to volumes 1 through 16 of his Peters's Reports. As such, the dual form of citation to, for example, Kelly v. Jackson is 31 U.S. (6 Pet.) 622 (1832).

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of 31 U.S. (6 Pet.)

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).^[2] 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 31 U.S. (6 Pet.) were decided, the Court comprised these seven justices:

Justice	Office	Home State	Succeeded	Date confirmed by the Senate (Vote)	Tenure on Supreme Court
John Marshall	Chief Justice	Virginia	Oliver Ellsworth	January 27, 1801 (Acclamation)	February 4, 1801 – July 6, 1835 (Died)
William Johnson	Associate Justice	South Carolina	Alfred Moore	March 24, 1804 (Acclamation)	May 7, 1804 – August 4, 1834 (Died)
Gabriel Duvall	Associate Justice	Maryland	Samuel Chase	November 18, 1811 (Acclamation)	November 23, 1811 – January 12, 1835 (Resigned)
Joseph Story	Associate Justice	Massachusetts	William Cushing	November 18, 1811 (Acclamation)	February 3, 1812 – September 10, 1845 (Died)
Smith Thompson	Associate Justice	New York	Henry Brockholst Livingston	December 9, 1823 (Acclamation)	September 1, 1823 – December 18, 1843 (Died)
John McLean	Associate Justice	Ohio	Robert Trimble	March 7, 1829 (Acclamation)	January 11, 1830 – April 4, 1861 (Died)
Henry Baldwin	Associate Justice	Pennsylvania	Bushrod Washington	January 6, 1830 (41–2)	January 18, 1830 – April 21, 1844 (Died)

Notable Case in 31 U.S. (6 Pet.)

Worcester v. Georgia

In Worcester v. Georgia, 31 U.S. (6 Pet.) 515 (1832), the Supreme Court held that the Georgia criminal statute that prohibited non-Native Americans from being present on Native American lands without a license from the state was unconstitutional. The opinion by Chief Justice John Marshall is most famous for its dicta, which laid out the relationship among tribes, state governments, and the federal government. The decision is considered to have built the foundations of the doctrine of tribal sovereignty in the United States. Marshall laid out in this opinion that the relationship between the Indian Nations and the United States is that of nations. He reasoned that the United States, in the character of the federal government, inherited the legal rights of The Crown. Those rights, he stated, included the sole right to negotiate with the Indian nations of North America, to the exclusion of all other European powers. This did not include the rights of possession to their land or political dominion over their laws. He acknowledged that the exercise of conquest and purchase can give political dominion, but that those are in the hands of the federal government, and individual states had no authority in American Indian affairs.

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 (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.

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 31 U.S. (6 Pet.)

Case Name	Page and year	Opinion of the Court	Concurring opinion(s)	Dissenting opinion(s)	Lower Court	Disposition
Schimmelpennick v. Turner	1 (1832)	Thompson	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	certification
Second Bank of the United States v. Bank of Washington	8 (1832)	Thompson	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
Kirkman v. Hamilton	20 (1832)	Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.W. Tenn.	certification
Second Bank of the United States v. Green	26 (1832)	Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Ohio	dismissed
United States v. Bank of North Carolina	29 (1832)	Story	none	none	C.C.D.N.C.	certification
Davis v. Packard	41 (1832)	Thompson	none	none	N.Y.	dismissal denied
Second Bank of the United States v. Dunn	51 (1832)	McLean	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
Miller's Heirs v. M'Intyre	61 (1832)	McLean	none	none	C.C.D. Ky.	affirmed
Smith v. Bell	68 (1832)	Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.E. Tenn.	certification
Moore v. Bank of Columbia	86 (1832)	Thompson	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
Peirsoll v. Elliott	95 (1832)	Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Ky.	reversed
Levy's Lessee v. M'Cartee	102 (1832)	Story	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	certification
Sicard's Lessee v. Davis	124 (1832)	Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Ky.	reversed
United States v. Paul	141 (1832)	Marshall	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	certification
Oliver v. Alexander	143 (1832)	Story	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	dismissed
Spring v. Gray's Executors	151 (1832)	Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Me.	affirmed
Dufau v. Couprey's Heirs	170 (1832)	Marshall	none	none	E.D. La.	affirmed
Cox v. United States	172 (1832)	Thompson	none	none	E.D. La.	reversed
M'Arthur v. Porter	205 (1832)	Story	none	none	C.C.D. Ohio	reversed
Ex parte Roberts	216 (1832)	Marshall	none	none	S.D.N.Y.	mandamus denied
Grant v. Raymond	218 (1832)	Marshall	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	reversed
Second Bank of the United States v. Hatch	250 (1832)	Story	none	none	C.C.D. Ohio	affirmed
M'Donald's Heirs v. Smalley	261 (1832)	Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Ohio	affirmed
Conard v. Pacific Insurance Company	262 (1832)	Story	none	none	C.C.E.D. Pa.	affirmed
Ross v. M'Lung	283 (1832)	Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.E. Tenn.	affirmed
Green v. Neal's Lessee	291 (1832)	McLean	none	none	C.C.D.W. Tenn.	reversed
Greenleaf's Lessee v. Birth	302 (1832)	Story	Marshall	Marshall	C.C.D.C.	reversed
Leland v. Wilkinson	317 (1832)	Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.R.I.	certification
New Jersey v. New York	323 (1832)	Marshall	none	none	original	continued
Boardman v. Reed's Lessees	328 (1832)	McLean	none	none	W.D. Va.	affirmed
Boyle v. Zacharie	348 (1832)	Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	inquiry answered
Scott v. Lunt's Administrator	349 (1832)	Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	dismissal denied
United States v. Reyburn	352 (1832)	Thompson	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	certification
Hughes v. Town of Clarksville	369 (1832)	Marshall	none	none	D. Ind.	reversed
Watts v. Waddle	389 (1832)	McLean	none	none	C.C.D. Ohio	affirmed
M'Lane v. United States	404 (1832)	Story	none	none	C.C.D. Del.	reversed
City of Cincinnati v. White's Lessee	431 (1832)	Thompson	none	none	C.C.D. Ohio	reversed
United States v. Quincy	445 (1832)	Thompson	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	certification
United States v. Nourse	470 (1832)	McLean	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
Barclay v. Howell's Lessee	498 (1832)	McLean	none	none	C.C.W.D. Pa.	reversed
Worcester v. Georgia	515 (1832)	Marshall	McLean	Baldwin	Ga. Super. Ct.	reversed
Crane v. Morriss's Lessee	598 (1832)	Story	none	Baldwin	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Kelly v. Jackson	622 (1832)	Story	none	Baldwin	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
United States v. M'Daniel	634 (1832)	Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	dismissal denied
Boyle v. Zacharie I	635 (1832)	Story	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	affirmed
Boyle v. Zacharie II	648 (1832)	Story	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	affirmed
Ex parte Davenport	661 (1832)	Story	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	mandamus denied
Lindsey v. Miller's Lessee	666 (1832)	McLean	none	Baldwin	C.C.D. Ohio	affirmed
Wallace v. Parker	680 (1832)	Marshall	none	none	Ohio	affirmed
United States v. Arredondo	691 (1832)	Baldwin	none	Thompson	Fla. Super. Ct.	affirmed
Gassies v. Ballon	761 (1832)	Marshall	none	none	D. La.	affirmed
Strother v. Lucas	763 (1832)	Thompson	none	none	D. Mo.	affirmed
Ex parte Bradstreet	774 (1832)	Marshall	none	none	N.D.N.Y.	command to appear
United States v. Phillips	776 (1832)	per curiam	none	none	C.C.E.D. Pa.	dismissed
Veitch v. Farmers' Bank	777 (1832)	per curiam	none	none	C.C.D.C.	dismissed
Boyce v. Grundy	777 (1832)	per curiam	none	none	C.C.D.W. Tenn.	dismissed

Notes and references

^ Anne Ashmore, DATES OF SUPREME COURT DECISIONS AND ARGUMENTS, Library, Supreme Court of the United States, 26 December 2018.
^ "Supreme Court Research Guide". Georgetown Law Library. Retrieved April 7, 2021.