Gallaway v. State National Bank of Fort Worth Texas

Supreme Court of the United States

Submitted May 19, 1902.

Decided June 2, 1902.

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1902-06-02

<p>The act of Congress of July 20, 1892, 27 Stat. 252, has no application to proceedings in this court.</p>

2 counsel of record

Cited in Bouvier (1914)’s definition of “Quarantine”

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Petition denied / appeal dismissed · 9–0 · Decided 1902-06-02

How this case has been cited

Cited by 38 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2018 · most notably Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco (1967), Kansas v. Hendricks (1997)

10 federal appellate · 13 state decisions — followed in 11 states

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

View the full empirical analysis of this case →

¶1

Mr. A. Gallaway in propria persona for motion.

THE CHIEF JUSTICE:

¶2

This is an application for leave to prosecute a writ of error to a state court, without giving security as required by § 1000 of the Revised Statutes, under an act of Congress of July 20, 1892. 27 Stat. at L. 252, chap. 209.

¶3

The motion must be denied. Our ruling has uniformly been, and has been enforced in repeated instances, that that act has no application to proceedings in this court.

¶4

Motion denied.