[535] 16 Pet. 1 (1842).
[536] 16 Pet. 1.
[537] Ibid. 19. Justice Story concluded this portion of the opinion as follows: "The law respecting negotiable instruments may be truly declared in the language of Cicero, adopted by Lord Mansfield in Luke v. Lyde, 2 Burr. 883, 887, to be in great measure, not the law of a single country only, but of the commercial world. Non erit alia lex Romae, alia Athenis; alia nunc, alia posthac, sed et apud omenes gentes, et omni tempore una eademque lex obtinebit." Ibid. 9.
[538] See Simeon E. Baldwin, The American Judiciary (New York, 1920), 169-170. See also Justice Catron's statement in Swift v. Tyson, 16 Pet. 1, 23.
[539] The Tyson doctrine was extended to wills in Lane v. Vick, 3 How. 464 (1845); to torts in Chicago City v. Robbins, 2 Bl. 418 (1862); to real estate titles and the rights of riparian owners in Yates v. Milwaukee, 10 Wall. 497 (1870); to mineral conveyances in Kuhn v. Fairmont Coal Co., 215 U.S. 349 (1910); to contracts in Rowan v. Runnels, 5 How. 134 (1847); and to the right to exemplary or punitive damages in Lake Shore & M.S.R. Co. v. Prentice, 147 U.S. 101 (1893). By 1888 there were 28 kinds of cases in which federal and State courts applied different rules of the common law. See George C. Holt, The Concurrent Jurisdiction of the Federal and State Courts (New York, 1888), 159-188.
[540] Rowan v. Runnels, 5 How. 134 (1847); Gelpcke v. Dubuque, 1 Wall. 175 (1864).
[541] Williamson v. Berry, 8 How. 495 (1850); Pease v. Peck, 18 How. 595 (1856); Watson v. Tarpley, 18 How. 517 (1856).
[542] Lane v. Vick, 3 How. 464 (1845); Williamson v. Berry, 8 How. 495 (1850); Gelpcke v. Dubuque, 1 Wall. 175 (1864).
[543] 149 U.S. 308, 401-404 (1893).
[544] 215 U.S. 349, 370 (1910).