List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 15
This is a list of cases reported in volume 15 (2 Wheat.) of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1817. Nominative reports 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"). Henry Wheaton Starting with the 14th volume of U.S. Reports, the Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States was Henry Wheaton. Wheaton was Reporter of Decisions from 1816 to 1827, covering volumes 14 through 25 of United States Reports which correspond to volumes 1 through 12 of his Wheaton's Reports. As such, the dual form of citation to, for example, Beverly v. Brooke is 15 U.S. (2 Wheat.) 100 (1817). Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of 15 U.S. (2 Wheat.) The Supreme Court is established by Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution of the United States,