List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 234
# List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 234

This is a list of cases reported in volume 234 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1914.

## Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 234 U.S.

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). 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 234 were decided the Court comprised the following nine members:

| Justice | Office | Home State | Succeeded | Date confirmed by the Senate (Vote) | Tenure on Supreme Court |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Edward Douglass White | Chief Justice | Louisiana | Melville Fuller | December 12, 1910 (Acclamation) | December 19, 1910 – May 19, 1921 (Died) |
| Joseph McKenna | Associate Justice | California | Stephen Johnson Field | January 21, 1898 (Acclamation) | January 26, 1898 – January 5, 1925 (Retired) |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | Associate Justice | Massachusetts | Horace Gray | December 4, 1902 (Acclamation) | December 8, 1902 – January 12, 1932 (Retired) |
| William R. Day | Associate Justice | Ohio | George Shiras Jr. | February 23, 1903 (Acclamation) | March 2, 1903 – November 13, 1922 (Retired) |
| Horace Harmon Lurton | Associate Justice | Tennessee | Rufus W. Peckham | December 20, 1909 (Acclamation) | January 3, 1910 – July 12, 1914 (Died) |
| Charles Evans Hughes | Associate Justice | New York | David Josiah Brewer | May 2, 1910 (Acclamation) | October 10, 1910 – June 10, 1916 (Resigned) |
| Willis Van Devanter | Associate Justice | Wyoming | Edward Douglass White (as Associate Justice) | December 15, 1910 (Acclamation) | January 3, 1911 – June 2, 1937 (Retired) |
| Joseph Rucker Lamar | Associate Justice | Georgia | William Henry Moody | December 15, 1910 (Acclamation) | January 3, 1911 – January 2, 1916 (Died) |
| Mahlon Pitney | Associate Justice | New Jersey | John Marshall Harlan | March 13, 1912 (50–26) | March 18, 1912 – December 31, 1922 (Resigned) |

## Notable Cases in 234 U.S.

### Shreveport Rate Cases

In the Shreveport Rate Cases, 234 U.S. 342 (1914), the Supreme Court interpreted Congress's power under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution of the United States. The Court held that the federal government's power to regulate interstate commerce also allowed it to regulate purely intrastate commerce when control of the former was not possible without control of the latter. Because the Court consolidated several related appeals, they are sometimes collectively known as the "Shreveport Rate Cases" although the Court issued only one ruling.

## 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.

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.

* "# Cir." = United States Court of Appeals
   * e.g., "3d Cir." = United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
* "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 volume 234 U.S.

| Case Name | Page & year | Opinion of the Court | Concurring opinion(s) | Dissenting opinion(s) | Lower Court | Disposition |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tap Line Cases | 1 (1914) | Day | none | none | Comm. Ct. | affirmed |
| United States v. Butler C.R.R. Co. | 29 (1914) | Day | none | none | Comm. Ct. | affirmed |
| United States v. Axman | 36 (1914) | Day | none | none | 9th Cir. | affirmed |
| Louisville & N.R.R. Co. v. Woodford | 46 (1914) | Day | none | none | Ky. | dismissed |
| Atlantic T. Co. v. Imbrovek | 52 (1914) | Hughes | none | none | 4th Cir. | affirmed |
| Atlantic T. Co. v. Maryland ex rel. Szczesek | 63 (1914) | Hughes | none | none | 4th Cir. | affirmed |
| Schmidt v. Bank of Comm. | 64 (1914) | Hughes | none | none | N.M. | reversed |
| Ex parte Roe | 70 (1914) | VanDevanter | none | none | E.D. Tex. | mandamus denied |
| Taylor v. Anderson | 74 (1914) | VanDevanter | none | none | C.C.E.D. Okla. | affirmed |
| Washington S. Co. v. United States | 76 (1914) | VanDevanter | none | none | 9th Cir. | affirmed |
| New Orleans & N.R.R. Co. v. National R.M. Co. | 80 (1914) | VanDevanter | none | none | La. | dismissed |
| Wabash R.R. Co. v. Hayes | 86 (1914) | VanDevanter | none | none | Ill. App. Ct. | dismissed |
| Ocampo v. United States | 91 (1914) | Pitney | none | none | Phil. | affirmed |
| Carlson v. Washington ex rel. Curtiss | 103 (1914) | Pitney | none | none | Wash. | affirmed |
| Virginia v. West Virginia | 117 (1914) | White | none | none | original | answer allowed |
| Manhattan L. Ins. Co. v. Cohen | 123 (1914) | White | none | none | Tex. Civ. App. | dismissed |
| Texas et al. R.R. Co. v. American T. & T. Co. | 138 (1914) | White | none | none | 5th Cir. | reversed |
| New York Life Ins. Co. v. Head I | 149 (1914) | White | none | none | Mo. | reversed |
| New York Life Ins. Co. v. Head II | 166 (1914) | White | none | none | Mo. | reversed |
| Florida et al. R.R. Co. v. United States | 167 (1914) | White | none | none | Comm. Ct. | reversed |
| Van Dyke v. Cordova C. Co. | 188 (1914) | White | none | none | Ariz. | dismissed |
| Mullen v. Simmons | 192 (1914) | McKenna | none | none | Okla. | reversed |
| International H. Co. v. Missouri | 199 (1914) | McKenna | none | none | Mo. | affirmed |
| International H. Co. v. Kentucky I | 216 (1914) | Holmes | none | none | Ky. | reversed |
| Keokee C.C. Co. v. Taylor | 224 (1914) | Holmes | none | none | Va. | affirmed |
| United States v. Buffalo P. Co. | 228 (1914) | Day | none | none | 2d Cir. | affirmed |
| United States v. United et al. Co. | 236 (1914) | Day | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| United States v. First Nat'l Bank | 245 (1914) | Day | none | none | 8th Cir. | affirmed |
| Lazarus M. & L. v. Prentice | 263 (1914) | Day | none | none | 5th Cir. | dismissed |
| Stone et al. Co. v. United States | 270 (1914) | Lurton | none | none | 5th Cir. | reversed |
| Atlantic C.L.R.R. Co. v. Georgia | 280 (1914) | Hughes | none | none | Ga. Ct. App. | affirmed |
| Los Angeles Switching Case | 294 (1914) | Hughes | none | none | Comm. Ct. | reversed |
| ICC v. Southern P. Co. | 315 (1914) | Hughes | none | none | Comm. Ct. | reversed |
| Port Richmond et al. Co. v. Hudson County | 317 (1914) | Hughes | none | none | N.J. | affirmed |
| City of Sault Ste. Marie v. International T. Co. | 333 (1914) | Hughes | none | none | W.D. Mich. | affirmed |
| Shreveport Rate Cases | 342 (1914) | Hughes | none | none | Comm. Ct. | affirmed |
| Citizens B. Co. v. Ravenna Nat'l Bank | 360 (1914) | VanDevanter | none | none | 6th Cir. | certification |
| Louisville & N.R.R. Co. v. Western Union T. Co. | 369 (1914) | VanDevanter | none | none | S.D. Miss. | reversed |
| Gilson v. United States | 380 (1914) | Pitney | none | none | 9th Cir. | affirmed |
| Grannis v. Ordean | 385 (1914) | Pitney | none | none | Minn. | affirmed |
| Dale v. Pattison | 399 (1914) | Pitney | none | none | 6th Cir. | affirmed |
| Missouri et al. R.R. Co. v. Harris | 412 (1914) | Pitney | none | none | Hopkins Cnty. Justice Ct. | affirmed |
| Johnson v. Gearlds | 422 (1914) | Pitney | none | none | D. Minn. | reversed |
| Equitable S. Co. v. United States ex rel. McMillan | 448 (1914) | Pitney | none | none | D.C. Cir. | certification |
| Missouri P.R.R. Co. v. Larabee | 459 (1914) | White | none | none | Kan. | reversed |
| Intermountain Rate Cases | 476 (1914) | White | none | none | Comm. Ct. | reversed |
| United States v. Union P.R.R. Co. | 495 (1914) | White | none | none | Comm. Ct. | reversed |
| Illinois ex rel. Dunne v. Economy et al. Co. | 497 (1914) | McKenna | none | none | Ill. | dismissed |
| Lane v. Watts | 525 (1914) | McKenna | none | none | D.C. Cir. | affirmed |
| Western Union T. Co. v. Brown | 542 (1914) | Holmes | none | none | S.C. | reversed |
| Pipe Line Cases | 548 (1914) | Holmes | White | McKenna | Comm. Ct. | multiple |
| Charleston et al. R.R. Co. v. Thompson | 576 (1914) | Holmes | none | none | Ga. Ct. App. | reversed |
| International H. Co. v. Kentucky II | 579 (1914) | Day | none | none | Ky. | affirmed |
| International H. Co. v. Kentucky III | 589 (1914) | Day | none | none | Ky. | reversed |
| Louisville & N.R.R. Co. v. Higdon | 592 (1914) | Day | none | none | Ky. | affirmed |
| Eastern et al. Ass'n v. United States | 600 (1914) | Day | none | none | S.D.N.Y. | affirmed |
| Jones v. Jones | 615 (1914) | Lurton | none | none | Tenn. | affirmed |
| Moore M.C. Co. v. Electrical I. Co. | 619 (1914) | Lurton | none | none | D. Ind. | dismissed |
| Louisiana v. McAdoo | 627 (1914) | Lurton | none | none | original | leave denied |
| Collins v. Kentucky | 634 (1914) | Hughes | none | none | Ky. | reversed |
| Malone v. Kentucky | 639 (1914) | Hughes | none | none | Ky. | reversed |
| Order St. B. v. Steinhauser | 640 (1914) | Hughes | none | none | 8th Cir. | reversed |
| Selig v. Hamilton | 652 (1914) | Hughes | none | none | S.D.N.Y. | affirmed |
| Chapman & D.L. Co. v. St. Francis L. Dist. | 667 (1914) | VanDevanter | none | none | Ark. | rehearing denied |
| Burke v. Southern P.R.R. Co. | 669 (1914) | VanDevanter | none | none | 9th Cir. | certification |
| Hall v. Burr | 712 (1914) | Pitney | none | none | 1st Cir. | affirmed |
| Southern R.R. Co. v. Crockett | 725 (1914) | Pitney | none | none | Tenn. | affirmed |
| Roller v. Murray | 738 (1914) | Pitney | none | none | W. Va. | dismissed |
