[17] 2 Wall. 561 (1865).
[18] 117 U.S. 697 Appx. (1864). See also De Groot v. United States, 5 Wall. 419 (1867) and United States v. Klein, 13 Wall. 128 (1872), which sustained Supreme Court revision after the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims had been made final. The Gordon decision had indicated that the Supreme Court could not review the decision of any legislative court.
[19] 117 U.S. 697, 703. This last doctrine was repeated to the extent that for many years an award of execution as distinguished from finality of judgment came to be regarded as an essential attribute of judicial power. See In re Sanborn, 148 U.S. 222, 226 (1893); Interstate Commerce Commission v. Brimson, 154 U.S. 447, 483 (1894); La Abra Silver Mining Co. v. United States, 175 U.S. 423, 457 (1899); Frasch v. Moore, 211 U.S. 1 (1908); Muskrat v. United States, 219 U.S. 346, 355, 361-362 (1911), and Postum Cereal Co. v. California Fig Nut Co., 272 U.S. 693 (1927).
[20] 273 U.S. 70 (1927).
[21] 276 U.S. 71 (1928).
[22] 274 U.S. 123 (1927). This case also clarified any doubts concerning a federal declaratory judgment act which was passed in 1934 and sustained in Aetna Life Insurance Co. v. Haworth, 300 U.S. 227 (1937).
[23] 288 U.S. 249 (1933). The decision in the Swope and Wallace cases removed all constitutional doubts which had previously shrouded a proposed federal declaratory judgment act which was enacted in 1934 (48 Stat. 955) and sustained in Aetna Life Ins. Co. v. Haworth, 300 U.S. 227 (1937).
[24] John Charles Fox, The King v. Almon, 24 Law Quarterly Review 184, 194-195 (1908).
[25] John Charles Fox, The Summary Power to Punish Contempt, 25 Law Quarterly Review, 238, 252 (1909).
[26] 1 Stat. 73, 83.