List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 64

This is a list of cases reported in volume 64 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1859 and 1860.

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.

Benjamin Chew Howard

Starting with the 42nd volume of U.S. Reports, the Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States was Benjamin Chew Howard. Howard was Reporter of Decisions from 1843 to 1860, covering volumes 42 through 65 of United States Reports which correspond to volumes 1 through 24 of his Howard's Reports. As such, the dual form of citation to, for example, Yontz v. United States is 64 U.S. 495.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of 64 U.S. (23 How.)

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. Since 1789 Congress has varied the size of the Court from six to seven, nine, ten, and back to nine justices.
When the cases in 64 U.S. were decided the Court comprised these nine members:

Portrait	Justice	Office	Home State	Succeeded	Date confirmed by the Senate	Tenure on Supreme Court
	Roger B. Taney	Chief Justice	Maryland	John Marshall		– October 12, 1864
	John McLean	Associate Justice	Ohio	Robert Trimble		– April 4, 1861
	James Moore Wayne	Associate Justice	Georgia	William Johnson		– July 5, 1867
	John Catron	Associate Justice	Tennessee	newly created seat		– May 30, 1865
	Peter Vivian Daniel	Associate Justice	Virginia	Philip P. Barbour		– May 31, 1860
	Samuel Nelson	Associate Justice	New York	Smith Thompson		– November 28, 1872
	Robert Cooper Grier	Associate Justice	Pennsylvania	Henry Baldwin		– January 31, 1870
	John Archibald Campbell	Associate Justice	Alabama	John McKinley		– April 30, 1861
	Nathan Clifford	Associate Justice	Maine	Benjamin Robbins Curtis		– July 25, 1881

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 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. 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 64 U.S. (23 How.)

Case Name	Page & year	Opinion of the Court	Concurring opinion	Dissenting opinion	Lower Court	Disposition
Anson B. & Co. v. Blue Ridge R.R. Co.		Nelson	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ga.	dismissed
Teese v. Huntingdon		Clifford	none	none	N.D. Cal.	affirmed
Lawrence v. Tucker		Wayne	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
Richardson v. Goddard		Grier	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	reversed
Middleton v. McGrew		Campbell	none	none	E.D. Tex.	affirmed
Oelricks v. Ford		Nelson	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	affirmed
Dubuque & P.R.R. Co. v. Litchfield		Catron	none	none	D. Iowa	reversed
Green's Adm'x v. Creighton		Campbell	none	none	C.C.S.D. Miss.	reversed
Cage's Ex'rs v. Cassidy		Campbell	none	none	C.C.S.D. Miss.	reversed
Pennock v. Coe		Nelson	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ohio	affirmed
Flowers v. Foreman		Wayne	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	affirmed
Benjamin v. Hillard		Campbell	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Ogden v. Parsons		Grier	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Irvine v. Redfleld		Wayne	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	certification
Castle v. Bullard		Clifford	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
Beaubien v. Beaubien		Nelson	none	none	C.C.D. Mich.	affirmed
Philadelphia et al. R.R. v. Philadelphia & H.G. Towboat		Grier	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	affirmed
Dermott v. Jones		Wayne	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
Hooper v. Scheimer		Catron	none	none	C.C.E.D. Ark.	affirmed
United States v. White		Grier	none	none	N.D. Cal.	reversed
United States v. Bennitz		Campbell	none	none	N.D. Cal.	reversed
United States v. Rose		Campbell	none	none	N.D. Cal.	reversed
United States v. Osio		Clifford	none	none	N.D. Cal.	reversed
Haney v. Baltimore S.P. Co.		Grier	none	Taney	C.C.D. Md.	reversed
Day v. Washburn		Wayne	none	none	C.C.D. Ind.	dismissal denied
United States v. Noe		Campbell	none	none	N.D. Cal.	reversed
United States v. Alviso		Campbell	none	none	N.D. Cal.	affirmed
Sutton v. Bancroft		Grier	none	none	W.D. Ark.	affirmed
United States v. Pico		Campbell	none	none	N.D. Cal.	reversed
United States v. Gomez		Wayne	none	none	S.D. Cal.	dismissal vacated
United States v. Bolton		Catron	none	none	N.D. Cal.	reversed
Adams v. Norris		Campbell	none	none	C.C.D. Cal.	affirmed
Wiseman v. Chiappella		Wayne	none	none	C.C.E.D. La.	affirmed
Zabriskie v. Cleveland et al. R.R. Co.		Campbell	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ohio	affirmed
Orient M. Ins. Co. v. Wright ex rel. Maxwell W. & Co.		Nelson	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	reversed
Sun M. Ins. Co. v. Wright ex rel. Maxwell W. & Co.		Nelson	none	Clifford	C.C.D. Md.	reversed
Bliven v. New Eng. S. Co. I		Clifford	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Bliven v. New Eng. S. Co. II		Clifford	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Minturn v. Larue		Nelson	none	none	C.C.N.D. Cal.	affirmed
Castro v. Hendricks		Campbell	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Bell v. City of Vicksburg		Campbell	none	none	C.C.S.D. Miss.	reversed
Frederickson v. Louisiana		Campbell	none	none	La.	affirmed
Whitridge v. Dill		Clifford	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	affirmed
Jenkins v. Banning		Clifford	none	none	D. Wis.	affirmed
Doe v. Wilson		Catron	none	none	C.C.D. Ind.	affirmed
United States v. Castillero		Clifford	none	none	S.D. Cal.	affirmed
Very v. Watkins		Wayne	none	none	C.C.E.D. Ark.	affirmed
United States v. Murphy		Campbell	none	none	N.D. Cal.	reversed
Callan v. Statham		Nelson	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Clifton v. Sheldon		Nelson	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	dismissed
Green v. Custard		Grier	none	none	W.D. Tex.	reversed
City of New York v. Ransom		Grier	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	reversed
Morewood v. Enequist		Grier	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Yontz v. United States		Catron	none	none	N.D. Cal.	affirmed
United States v. Berreyesa's Heirs		Campbell	none	none	N.D. Cal.	affirmed
Gridley v. Wynant		Campbell	none	none	N.D. Iowa	affirmed
Gridley v. Westbrook		Campbell	none	none	N.D. Iowa	affirmed
Alabama v. Georgia		Wayne	none	none	original	boundary set
Luco v. United States		Grier	none	none	N.D. Cal.	affirmed