[97] 2 Stat. 132. For a general account of the events leading to the acts of 1801 and 1802, see Felix Frankfurter and James M. Landis, The Business of the Supreme Court; a study in the federal judicial system (New York, 1928), pp. 25-32. This book also contains an excellent account of the organization and reorganization of the judiciary by statute from time to time. For another account of the acts of 1801 and 1802 see Charles Warren, The Supreme Court in United States History (Boston, Rev. ed., 1932), 189-215.
[98] 1 Cr. 299, 309 (1803).
[99] 38 Stat. 208, 219-221.
[100] Prior to the act of 1913 Congress had voted to abolish the Commerce Court, but President Taft vetoed the bill which converted the Commerce Court judges into ambulatory circuit judges. For a general account of the abolition of the Commerce Court, see Felix Frankfurter and James M. Landis, The Business of the Supreme Court (New York, 1928), pp. 166-173.
[101] Evans v. Gore, 253 U.S. 245 (1920).
[102] 268 U.S. 501 (1925).
[103] 307 U.S. 277 (1939).
[104] Ibid. 278-282.
[105] Ibid. 282.
[106] 289 U.S. 516, 526 (1933).