Jackman v. The Rosenbaum Company (1922), 408–9[nn44–45]
Jacobs v. Rouse (Docket # 588, Equity, Suffolk County, 1883), 187[n23]
Jacobs, In re, 98 N.Y. 98 (1885), 291[n20]
Jay Burns Baking Company v. Bryan (1924), 411[n54]
Johnson v. United States, 163 Fed. 30 (1st Cir. 1908), 200[n60]
Jones v. Simpson, 171 Mass. 474 (1898), 190[n33]
Katz v. United States (1967), 520n33
Kawananakoa v. Polyblank (1907), 436[n37]
Lamson v. Martin, 159 Mass. 557 (1893), 488n19
Leach v. Carlile (1922), 440–41
LeRoy Fibre Company v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway (1914), 346
Lochner v. New York (1905), 64[n46], 291–93, 294–95, 341, 347, 348, 412, 438
Long v. Rockwood (1928), 523n22
Lorden v. Coffey, 178 Mass. 489 (1901), 494n61
Lorenzo v. Wirth, 170 Mass. 596 (1898), 431[n28]
Louis K. Liggett Company v. Baldridge (1928), 410[n50]
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company v. Barber Asphalt Paving Company (1905), 296[n30]
Marcus Brown Holding Company, Inc., v. Feldman (1921), 346[n36]
Martin v. District of Columbia (1907), 296–97[n31]
Mason v. Pomeroy, 154 Mass. 481 (1891), 195–96[n49]
Masses Publishing Company v. Patten, 244 F. 535 (S.D.N.Y. 1917), 246 F. 24 (2d Cir. 1917), 368–69, 377, 383, 384, 385
McAuliffe v. Mayor and Board of Aldermen of New Bedford, 155 Mass. 216 (1892), 12[n41], 378[n33]
McCabe v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company (1914), 414[n60]
Merrill v. Peaslee, 146 Mass. 460 (1888), 232[n11]
Middlesex Company v. City of Lowell, 149 Mass. 509 (1889), 198[n55]
Milwaukee Social Democratic Publishing Company v. Burleson (1921), 440, 460
Missouri v. Holland (1920), 447–48[n66]
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway v. May (1904), 296[n28]
Moore v. Dempsey (1923), 417–19, 427, 459
Muller v. Oregon (1908), 357
Munn v. Illinois (1876), 409–10[n49]
Myers v. United States (1926), 524n22
Nash v. Minnesota Title Insurance and Trust Company, 163 Mass. 574 (1895), 232[n10], 233[n15]
National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation (1937), 523n20
Nebbia v. New York (1934), 449[n72]
New Jersey v. New York (1931), 447[n65]
New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Company (1938), 523n20
Nixon v. Herndon (1927), 433
Noble State Bank v. Haskell (1911), 342
Northern Securities Company v. United States (1904), 297–300, 301, 412
Oliver v. Oliver, 151 Mass. 349 (1890), 188–89[n28]
Olmstead v. United States (1928), 12[n44], 433–35, 520n33
O’Neill v. Northern Colorado Irrigation Company (1916), 12[n40]
Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives (constitutionality of municipally owned fuel yards), 155 Mass. 598 (1892), 224[n59]
Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives (constitutionality of referendums), 160 Mass. 586 (1894), 22[n76], 224–25[n62]
Otis v. Parker (1903), 22[n75], 266[n26], 271–72
Patnoude v. New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company, 180 Mass. 119 (1901), 246[n50]
Patterson v. Colorado (1907), 379–80, 383, 393
Peck v. Tribune Company (1909), 380[n37]
Pennsylvania Coal Company v. Mahon (1922), 410–11, 419
People v. Budd, 117 N.Y. 1 (1899), 288–89
People v. Gillson, 109 N.Y. 389 (1888), 270[n38]
Phelps Dodge Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board (1941), 523n20
Pipe Line Cases (1914), 339–41
Plant v. Woods, 176 Mass. 492 (1900), 247, 348
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), 268, 269, 290, 414
Pokora v. Wabash Railway Company (1934), 432[n30]
Powell v. Alabama (1932), 459[n23]
Quinn v. Crimmings, 171 Mass. 255 (1898), 431[n28]
Raymond v. Wagner, 178 Mass. 315 (1901), 189–90[n32]
Robbins v. Robbins, 140 Mass. 528 (1886), 189[n29]
Russell v. Cole (Docket # 865, Equity, Suffolk County, 1883), 187[n22]
Ryalls v. Mechanics’ Mills, 150 Mass. 190 (1889), 232[n10]
Sargent v. Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Honor, 158 Mass. 557 (1893), 189[n31]
Schenck v. United States (1919), 377–78, 383–85, 391
Schlesinger v. Wisconsin (1926), 410[n50]
Sears v. Mayor and Aldermen of Worcester, 180 Mass. 288 (1902), 196[n49]
Seaver v. Seaver (Docket # 499, Suffolk County, 1883), 188[n27]
Senn v. Tile Layers Protective Union (1937), 523n20
Slaughter-House Cases (1873), 289–91
Southern Pacific Company v. Jensen (1917), 12[n39], 347[n38], 435
Spade v. Lynn and Boston Railroad Company, 172 Mass. 488 (1899), 12[n42], 233[n15]
Springer v. Government of the Philippine Islands (1928), 22[n75]
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States (1911), 343[n25]
State Tax Commission of Utah v. Aldrich (1942), 446[n60]
Stillman v. Whittemore, 165 Mass. 234 (1896), 196[n49]
Swift and Company v. United States (1905), 300–301
Tasker v. Stanley, 153 Mass. 148 (1891), 229–30[n3]
Toledo Newspaper Company v. United States (1918), 363
Towne v. Eisner (1918), 200[n60]
Truax v. Corrigan (1921), 405, 459
Tyson & Brother v. Banton (1927), 410, 449, 522n72
Union Refrigerator Transit Company v. Kentucky (1905), 297[n32]
United States v. Ames (1878), 156[n14]
United States v. Carolene Products Company (1938), 459[n19]
United States v. Darby Lumber Company (1941), 459[n21]
United States v. Schwimmer (1929), 12[n46], 440, 441–42, 460
United States v. Shipp (1906), 416–17
United Zinc & Chemical Company v. Britt (1922), 432
Vegelahn v. Guntner, 167 Mass. 92 (1896), 222[n54], 241–42, 247, 258, 348
Weaver v. Palmer Brothers Company (1926), 410[n50]
Welsh, In re, 175 Mass. 68 (1900), 230[n4]
West Coast Hotel Company v. Parrish (1937), 459[n18]
The Western Maid (1922), 346[n36], 435–36[n36]
Western Union Telegraph Company v. Speight (1920), 338–39
Weston v. Barnicoat, 175 Mass. 454 (1900), 232[n10]
White v. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 171 Mass. 84 (1898), 190–91[n33]
Williams v. Standard Oil Company (1929), 410[n50]
Wood v. Bullard, 151 Mass. 324 (1890), 490n47
Wood v. Cutter, 138 Mass. 149 (1884), 490n50
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Abbeyleix (Ireland), 235
Abbott, Edward, 80
Abbott, Henry Livermore (“Little”)
appearance and background, 70, 73
on Col. Lee’s breakdown, 101
comradeship with OWH, 70, 72–73, 90, 102–3
contempt for Holmes Sr., 70, 90
courage in action, 70–71, 84, 85, 90, 103–4, 105, 117–18
disputes over promotion in regiment, 109–10, 112
ethnic and racial prejudices, 78, 104, 111
hatred of abolitionists, 70, 77–78, 90, 101–2, 105, 109, 111
on mistakes at Ball’s Bluff, 83, 84
on Ropes’s death at Gettysburg, 110
suicidal death at Wilderness, 105, 117–18
symbol of duty and heroism to OWH, 70–71, 103–4, 117–18
Abbott, Josiah, 77
abolitionism and abolitionists
in Boston, 58, 66–70, 76
moral certainties of, 130
and postwar South, 130, 413, 414
and Union army, 71, 77–78, 90, 91, 109, 111
see also slavery
Abrams, Jacob, 390
academics, see law professors
accidents, see torts and tort law; workers’ compensation; workplace safety
Acheson, Dean
and Abrams case, 515n64
impressions of OWH, 1–2, 19
on intimacy of old Court chambers, 264
on Justices Day and McKenna, 338
OWH’s remarks to: Harlan’s mind, 9; OWH’s “undeserved reputation for attention” on the bench, 194; Peckham’s judicial temperament, 270; White’s “rule of reason,” 343
on tediousness of Washington teas, 278
on Washington’s southern atmosphere, 260
on White’s slippery-slope arguments, 342–43
Achtundvierziger, 76
Acton, John Dalberg-Acton, Lord, 376
Adams, Brooks, 4, 219, 220, 221, 230
Adams, Clover (née Hooper), 139, 146, 183, 281
Adams, Henry
on failings of Harvard education, 56
marriage to Clover Hooper, 139, 281
on New England’s social conscience, 28, 31
pessimism, 4, 330
on TR’s anger at OWH, 299
Adams, John Quincy, 3
Adams, Mary, 139
admiralty law, 156, 173, 435–46
adultery, rules of evidence for, 188, 189
African Americans
in Civil War, 68, 89, 90, 109, 111
as Court messengers, 20, 260–61
defendants in mob-dominated trials, 417–19, 418, 427–28, 427, 459
and peonage laws, 414
in Reconstruction, 289–90
segregation, 268, 269, 290, 412–13, 414–16
and TR, 275, 412
voting rights, 413–14, 433
in Washington, 260–61, 275, 311–12, 360
see also slavery
Agassiz, Louis, 38
agencies, independent federal, 524n22
air pollution, 301
Alabama, racially discriminatory statutes, 413–14
Allen, Justice William, 220
Alpha Delta Phi, 59
Alpine Club, 140, 141, 143, 159
Alps, 2, 141–42, 143, 150
Ambassadors, The (H. James), 333
American Bar Association, 336, 446, 447
American Law Review, 154, 157, 162, 163, 164, 168, 170
American Waltham Watch Company, 246
Ames, James Barr, 180
Ames, Oakes, 183
Amritsar massacre, 373
anarchists, 390, 425, 461
Ancient Law (Maine), 159
Andrew, Gov. John, 76, 77, 78, 89, 90, 109
Antietam, Battle of, 93–96, 101
aftermath of, 100–101
casualty figures, 93, 476n59
map, 95
OWH wounded at, 2, 3, 96–99, 98, 128, 144, 451
anti-Semitism
in Boston, 19, 355–56, 359, 394
and Brandeis nomination, 355–56
of Fanny Holmes, 19, 359, 511n70
in legal profession, 320, 326–27
of McReynolds, 359–61, 426
antitrust cases, 294, 297–301, 298, 327, 329, 343, 359
appeals
and certiorari, 401–3
and discretion of trial judge, 195–96
in equity cases, 488n19
right of, 349, 401–2
Argyll, George Campbell, 8th Duke of, 139, 142
Aristophanes, 220
Aristotle, 333
Arizona
injunctions against strikers, 405
workers’ compensation statute, 397
Arlington Cemetery, 20, 316, 439, 451, 452
arson, 383–84
Asch, Sholem, 443
Askwith, Lady (Ellen, née Peel), 178, 363, 478n25
Asquith, Lady (Margot, née Tennant), 218
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, 216–17
Atlanta (Ga.), 348, 350, 386
Atlantic Monthly, 23, 97, 426, 479n70
attempted crimes, 233, 383–84, 393
Augustine, Saint, 7
Austen, Jane, 333
Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, The (Holmes Sr.), 23, 37, 41–43, 45
Back Bay, see Boston: Back Bay project
“bad man” theory, 244–45, 497n46
“bad tendency” test, 368, 384
“badge of slavery,” 269
Baker, Col. Edward D., 83–84, 85
bakeries, regulation of, 291–93, 292, 411
Bakhmeteff, Ambassador, 277, 311
balancing tests, 21–22, 246–47, 293–94, 433
Ball’s Bluff, Battle of, 79–85
consequences of, 77, 88–89, 90, 92, 100, 104
map, 82
OWH wounded at 2, 86–88, 96, 99, 281, 451
Balmhorn, 141
Balzac, Honoré de, 7
banks, 342, 451
Bar Association of Boston, 258
Barbour, Thomas, 427
Bard, Nathan, 427–28, 427
Bartlett, John, 40
Bartlett, Brig. Gen. William Francis, 73–74, 78, 79, 82, 83, 84, 85, 125
Basel (Switzerland), 141
Bayreuth (Germany), 424
Beck, James M., 406
Beecher, Lyman, 29
“Beef Trust,” 300
Belknap, Chauncey
on Fanny Holmes’s acuity and humor, 277–78, 318
living at “House of Truth,” 353
oral history, 466
on OWH: his fame to Harvard Law students, 319; work ethic, 6
OWH reads opinions aloud to, 315
OWH’s remarks to: fellow justices “the boys,” 9–10; contempt for father’s emotional meetings during war, 87, 98
social duties as OWH’s secretary, 277–78, 316–17, 318
on Washington society, 273
Benjamin, Robert M., 320
Berchem, Nicolaes Pieterszoon, 60
Berea College, 414
Berkeley, Bishop George, 333
Berlin, University of, 324
Bermuda, Supreme Court of, 320
Bermuda Hundred (Va.), 116, 125
Bernhardt, Sarah, 283
“bettabilitarianism,” 149
Bevan, Margaret, 212–13
Beverly Farms (Mass.), 209, 220–21, 225–26, 226, 322, 443, 444
Bickel, Alexander, 347, 515n64
Biddle, Francis, 13, 134, 210, 260, 316, 318–19, 320
Bierce, Ambrose, 244
Bigelow, Sturgis, 221
bill of exceptions, 488n19
Bill of Rights, 222, 290, 342, 379, 380, 382 (see also First Amendment; Fourth Amendment; Fifth Amendment; Fourteenth Amendment; free speech)
“Black Book” (Holmes), 7, 170, 171, 228, 332, 334, 467n24
“Black Codes,” 290
Blackstone, William, 163
Blackstone (Commentaries on the Laws of England)
as iconic reference work, 163
on free speech, 379, 380, 392, 393
OWH’s dissatisfactions with, 153, 168, 169
bloodroot, 113, 364, 386, 424
“Bloody Angle,” 119–20, 119
Boorstin, Daniel, 455
Borglum, Gutzon, 329
Boston
Back Bay project, 50, 133, 159–61
“Brahmins,” 23, 24, 31, 51, 53, 66, 131, 356, 359, 426, 456
buildings and streets, 27–28, 48, 49, 49–50, 159–61
fire of 1872, 47
“half-Puritan” atmosphere, 50
Holmes Sr. as symbol of, 23–24
intellectual atmosphere, 23–27
Irish in, 19, 77, 78–79, 132–34, 197
OWH’s residences in: 8 Montgomery Place, 48–50, 48, 176–77, 225; 21 Charles Street, 88; 10 Beacon Street, 161, 490–91n1; 9 Chestnut Street, 202, 490–91n1; 296 Beacon St
reet, 159–61, 160, 217, 227, 238, 286
police strike of 1919, 389
population, 196
post–Civil War changes, 132–34, 136–37, 159–61, 196–97
religion, 3, 28–34, 50, 62–65, 77, 131–32, 134
and slavery, 65–70, 130
social reform movements, 27–31
support for education, 25–26, 30–31, 161
textile industry, 26, 51, 65, 68, 132, 197, 221–22, 254
Boston Associates, 51
Boston Athenaeum, 27, 49, 76, 88, 161, 178, 457
Boston Common, 49, 247, 248, 378
Boston Daily Advertiser, 35, 177, 180, 217, 488n19
Boston Evening Transcript, 394, 426
Boston Latin School, 53, 54
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 453
Boston Public Garden, 29, 50, 133
Boston Public Library, 28
Boston University, 240, 241, 243
Bosworth Street (Boston), 49
Bowditch, Henry, 43
Bowditch, Nathaniel, 54
Bowen, Catherine Drinker, 501n58
Bowen, Francis, 61–63, 64–65, 66
Bowling Green (Ky.), 437
boycotts, 241–42, 247
Bradley, Miss, 216
Brandeis, Louis D., 356, 360, 402
ally of OWH on the Court, 356–57, 358–59, 362–63, 390, 405, 409, 433, 435
and anti-Semitism, 355–56, 359–61
asceticism, 357–58
books pressed on OWH, 8, 389
cases argued before Court, 329, 357
on crank mail, 421
and dissenting opinions, 345
and facts, 357, 389, 411–12
and Fanny Holmes’s death, 439–40, 442
and federal common law, 438
and free speech cases, 381–82, 390, 440, 441
and “House of Truth,” 329
joins Democratic Party, 399
and Laski, 358, 394
and McReynolds, 359–61
nomination fight, 355, 356–57, 388
on OWH: criticisms of, 185, 396, 410–11, 432; his health, 409, 438, 444; recruitment to Harvard, 179–80, 182; resignation from the Court, 448, 449; rule against married secretaries, 317
as “People’s Attorney,” 355
residence, 357, 358
and Sacco-Vanzetti case, 426, 428
secretaries, 2, 313, 357
and Taft, 356, 403, 405, 435
“Brandeis brief,” 357
Brandy Station (Va.), 112, 113, 116
Brewer, Justice David J., 269, 272, 335, 339
Brooks, Van Wyck
on Holmes Sr., 23, 38, 41, 43
on postwar Boston, 132, 137
Brown, Justice Henry Billings, 266, 269, 344
Brownell, Henry H., 135
Bryce, James, 159, 168, 181, 224, 227, 329
Buchan, John, 333
Buck, Carrie, 428, 429–30
Buckley, Charles (“Charlie”), 5, 204, 312, 398, 453
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