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INDEX OF COURT CASES
The full texts of all U.S. Supreme Court decisions are nowadays freely available from many Internet sources and can be readily located through a simple search by case name, so formal citations are not included below.
Full citations to appellate decisions of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court are given in the standard form that refers to their location in the published Massachusetts Reports: For example, 148 Mass. 132 is volume 148, page 132 of the Reports.
Cases that Holmes heard as a trial justice and that were not subsequently appealed to the full court are cited below by the Massachusetts county or court where they were tried (and, where available, the docket number).
Abrams v. United States (1919), 390–93, 438, 440, 460–61, 524n25
Adair v. United States (1908), 302, 348, 459, 523n20
Adkins v. Children’s Hospital (1923), 12[n45], 412, 459
Allgeyer v. Louisiana (1897), 291
American Banana Company v. United Fruit Company (1909), 435[n35]
American Waltham Watch Company v. United States Watch Company, 173 Mass. 85 (1899), 232[n10], 246[n51]
Amherst College v. Allen, 165 Mass. 178 (1896), 196[n49]
Anchor Electric Company v. Hawkes, 171 Mass. 101 (1898), 198–99[n56]
Arizona Employers’ Liability Cases (1919), 397[nn4–6]
Attorney General v. Old Colony Railroad Company, 160 Mass. 62 (1893), 224[n60]
Bailey v. Alabama (1911), 414[n61]
Baldwin v. Missouri (1930), 445–46
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company v. Goodman (1927), 432
Baltzer v. United States (1918), 377, 378, 380–82, 513n38
Bard v. Chilton, 20 F.2d 906 (6th Cir. 1927), 427–28
Beals v. Case (Docket # 346, Equity, Suffolk County, 1883), 187[n22]
Bent v. Emery, 173 Mass. 495 (1899), 200–201
Berea College v. Kentucky (1908), 414[n60]
Black & White Taxicab & Transfer Company v. Brown & Yellow Taxicab & Transfer Company (1928), 437–38
Blackstone v. Miller (1903), 445
Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Company (1903) 272, 273
Block v. Hirsh (1921), 346[n36], 404
Boston Standard Cab Association v. Nichols (Docket # 947, Equity, Suffolk County, 1883), 187[n23]
Briggs v. Canal Company (Docket # 945, Equity, Suffolk County, 1883), 187[n22]
Buchanan v. Warley (1917), 414–16
Buck v. Bell (1927), 14–15, 428–31, 432, 433
Bunting v. Oregon (1917), 361–62[n77]
Burt v. Advertiser Newspaper Company, 154 Mass. 238 (1891), 378–39[n34]
Butler v. New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company, 177 Mass. 191 (1900), 233–34[n15]
Chadwick v. Covell, 151 Mass. 190 (1890), 12[n43]
Chase v. Hubbard, 153 Mass. 91 (1891), 195[n47]
Civil Rights Cases (1883), 290
Clapp v. Jenkins (Docket # 1171, Suffolk County, 1883), 186–87
Commonwealth v. Allen (Suffolk County, 1885), 193[n40]
Commonwealth v. Baker (Middlesex County, 1886), 193[n40]
Commonwealth v. Besse, 143 Mass. 80 (1886), 193[n40]
Commonwealth v. Blanding, 20 Mass. 304 (1825), 379[n35]–380[n36]
Commonwealth v. Davis, 162 Mass. 510 (1895), 378[n33]
Commonwealth v. Kennedy, 170 Mass. 18 (1897), 233[n14], 383[n44]
Commonwealth v. Nicholson (Suffolk County, 1884), 193[n40]
Commonwealth v. Peaslee, 177 Mass. 267 (1901), 383–84[n44]
Commonwealth v. Perry, 155 Mass. 117 (1891), 222–24
Commonwealth v. Pierce, 138 Mass. 165 (1884), 232–33
Commonwealth v. Sullivan, 146 Mass. 142 (1888), 234[n16]
Coppage v. Kansas (1915), 348, 354, 459, 523n20
Cowley v. Pulsifer, 137 Mass. 392 (1884), 378–79[n34]
Crowell v. Cape Cod Ship Canal Company, 168 Mass. 157 (1897), 200[n59]
Debbi
ns v. Old Colony Railroad Company, 154 Mass. 402 (1891), 230[n4]
Debs v. United States (1919), 378–79, 383, 384, 385, 386, 387, 391
Deshon v. Wood, 148 Mass. 132 (1888), 191–92, 195[n47], 488n19
Dexter v. Campbell, 137 Mass. 198 (1884), 187[n22]
Dietrich v. Inhabitants of Northampton, 138 Mass. 14 (1884), 431[n27]
Drake v. Drake (Docket # 403, Berkshire County, 1887), 188[n26]
Erie Railroad Company v. Tompkins (1938), 438, 459
Evans v. Gore (1920), 361[n75], 523n22
Fairmont Creamery Company v. Minnesota (1927), 410[n50]
Federal Trade Commission v. Beech-Nut Packing Company (1922), 345[n33]
First National Bank of Decatur v. Henry (1908), 339[n15]
Fiske v. Pratt, 157 Mass. 83 (1892), 192[n38]
Fox Film Corporation v. Doyal (1932), 523–24[n22]
Frank v. Mangum (1915), 348–51, 352–53, 354–55, 416, 417, 418, 438, 459
Frohwerk v. United States (1919), 378
Frost & Frost Trucking Company v. Railroad Commission of California (1926), 410[n50]
Gale v. Nickerson, 144 Mass. 415 (1887), 196[n49]
Georgia v. Tennessee Copper Company (1907), 301[n44]
Gibson v. Imperial Council of the Order of United Friends, 168 Mass. 391 (1897), 189[n31]
Giles v. Harris (1903), 413–14
Girouard v. United States (1946), 460[n26]
Gitlow v. New York (1925), 12[n47], 441
Gold v. DiCarlo, 235 F. Supp. 817 (S.D.N.Y. 1964), 522n72
Gompers v. United States (1914), 22[n75], 64[n50], 342[n23]
Hamilton v. West End Street Railway Company, 163 Mass. 199 (1895), 231–32[n10]
Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918), 362–63, 459
Hannegan v. Esquire, Inc. (1946), 460[n26]
Harvey v. Merrill, 150 Mass. 1 (1889), 199[n57]
Helvering v. Gerhardt (1938), 523n22
Herbert v. Shanley (1917), 277[n57]
Holbrook v. Aldrich, 168 Mass. 15 (1897), 431[n28]
Holden v. Hardy (1898), 292[n22]
Hubbard v. City of Taunton, 140 Mass. 467 (1886), 201[n62]
Hudson County Water Company v. McCarter (1908), 65[n52]
Humphrey’s Executor v. United States (1935), 524n22
Hunting v. Damon, 160 Mass. 441 (1894), 490n50
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