List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 57

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This is a list of cases reported in volume 57 (16 How.) of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1853 and 1854.

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").

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, Steamboat New World v. King is 57 U. S. 469 (16 How.) (1854).

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 57 U. S. (16 How.) were decided the Court comprised these nine members:

Portrait Justice Office Home State Succeeded Date confirmed by the Senate(Vote) Tenure on Supreme Court Roger B. Taney Chief Justice Maryland John Marshall March 15, 1836(29–15) March 28, 1836–October 12, 1864(Died) John McLean Associate Justice Ohio Robert Trimble March 7, 1829(Acclamation) January 11, 1830–April 4, 1861(Died) James Moore Wayne Associate Justice Georgia William Johnson January 9, 1835(Acclamation) January 14, 1835–July 5, 1867(Died) John Catron Associate Justice Tennessee newly created seat March 8, 1837(28–15) May 1, 1837–May 30, 1865(Died) Peter Vivian Daniel Associate Justice Virginia Philip P. Barbour March 2, 1841(25–5) January 10, 1842–May 31, 1860(Died) Samuel Nelson Associate Justice New York Smith Thompson February 14, 1845(Acclamation) February 27, 1845–November 28, 1872(Retired) Robert Cooper Grier Associate Justice Pennsylvania Henry Baldwin August 4, 1846(Acclamation) August 10, 1846–January 31, 1870(Retired) Benjamin Robbins Curtis Associate Justice Massachusetts Levi Woodbury December 20, 1851(Acclamation) October 10, 1851–September 30, 1857(Resigned) John Archibald Campbell Associate Justice Alabama John McKinley March 22, 1853(Acclamation) April 11, 1853–April 30, 1861(Resigned)

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

Case Name Page and year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition Lewis v. Darling 1 (1854) Wayne none none N. D. Ala. reversedTurner v. Yates 14 (1854) Curtis none none C. C. D. Md. affirmedYerger v. Jones 30 (1854) Grier none none N. D. Ala. affirmedConrad v. Griffey 38 (1854) McLean none none C. C. E. D. La. affirmedBurgess v. Gray 48 (1854) Taney none none Mo. affirmed Pennington v. Gibson 65 (1854) Daniel none none C. C. D. Md. affirmed Fourniquet v. Perkins 82 (1854) Taney none none C. C. E. D. La. affirmedMcCabe v. Worthington 86 (1854) Catron none none Mo. affirmedSizer v. Many 98 (1854) Taney none none C. C. D. Mass. dismissed Piquignot v. Pennsylvania Railroad Company 104 (1854) Grier none none C. C. W. D. Pa. affirmedRobertson v. Coulter 106 (1853) Taney none none Miss. dismissed Chapman ex rel. Leavitt v. Smith 114 (1854) Nelson none none M. D. Ala. affirmedStafford v. Union Bank 135 (1854) McLean Catron none D. Tex. dismissal denied Davenport v. Fletcher 142 (1854) McLean none none C. C. E. D. La. dismissedAdams v. Law 144 (1854) McLean none none C. C. D. C. dismissal deniedStuart v. Maxwell 150 (1854) Curtis none none C. C. S. D. N. Y. affirmedCross v. Harrison 164 (1854) Wayne none none C. C. S. D. N. Y. affirmed Chouteau v. Molony 203 (1854) Wayne none none D. Iowa affirmedDenise v Ruggles 242 (1854) Catron none none C. C. D. Mo. affirmed Thorp v. Raymond 247 (1854) Nelson none none C. C. S. D. N. Y. affirmedMaillard v. Lawrence 251 (1854) Daniel none none C. C. S. D. N. Y. affirmedBartlett v. Kane 263 (1854) Campbell none none C. C. D. Md. affirmedCarroll v. Carroll's Lessee 275 (1854) Curtis none none C. C. D. Md. affirmedSmith v. Swormstedt 288 (1854) Nelson none none C. C. D. Ohio reversedMarshall v. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 314 (1854) Grier none Catron; Daniel C. C. D. Md. affirmedHomer v. Brown 354 (1854) Wayne none none C. C. D. Mass. affirmedState Bank v. Knoop 369 (1854) McLean Taney Catron; Daniel; Campbell Ohio reversedOhio Life Insurance and Trust Company v. Debolt 416 (1854) plurality Taney; Catron; Daniel; Campbell; McLean Curtis Ohio affirmedGamache v. Piquignot 451 (1854) Catron none none Mo. affirmedThe Steamboat New World 469 (1854) Curtis none Daniel N. D. Cal. affirmedSeymour v. McCormick 480 (1854) Grier none none C. C. N. D. N. Y. reversedAmis v. Myers 492 (1854) Campbell none none C. C. E. D. La. reversedGuitard v. Stoddard 494 (1854) Campbell none none C. C. D. Mo. reversed Irwin v. United States 513 (1854) Grier none none C. C. W. D. Pa. affirmedFanning v. Gregoire 524 (1854) McLean none none D. Iowa affirmedBarney v. Saunders 535 (1854) Grier none none C. C. D. C. multipleSouthard v. Russell 547 (1854) Nelson none none C. C. D. Ky. affirmed Slicer v. Bank of Pittsburg (sic) 571 (1854) McLean none none C. C. W. D. Pa. affirmedCalvert v. Bradley 580 (1854) Daniel none none C. C. D. C. affirmedEarly v. Rogers 599 (1854) Campbell none none W. D. Va. affirmed Early v. Doe 610 (1854) Wayne none none C. C. D. C. affirmedCervantes v. United States 619 (1854) McLean none none N. D. Cal. reversedDeshler v. Dodge 622 (1854) Nelson none Catron; Daniel C. C. D. Ohio. reversedDoe v. Braden 635 (1854) Taney none none N. D. Fla. affirmed