The last clause of Amendment VII is not restricted in its application to
suits at common law tried before juries in United States courts. It
applies equally to a case tried before a jury in a State court and
brought to the United States Supreme Court on appeal.[61]

Notes

[1] 2 Farrand, Records, 628.

[2] _See_ Federal Conformity Act, 28 U.S.C.A. Sec. 724.

[3] 2 Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, Sec. 1763.

[4] Federalist, Nos. 81 and 83.

[5] Baltimore & C. Line _v._ Redman, 295 U.S. 654, 657 (1935); Parsons
_v._ Bedford, 3 Pet. 433, 446-448 (1830).

[6] Capital Traction Co. _v._ Hof, 174 U.S. 1, 13, 14 (1899). Here it
was held that a civil trial before a justice of the peace in the
District of Columbia, although by a jury of twelve men, was not a jury
trial in the sense of Amendment VII.

[7] Maxwell _v._ Dow, 176 U.S. 581, 586 (1900). _See also_ American
Publishing Co. _v._ Fisher, 166 U.S. 464 (1897); Springville _v._
Thomas, 166 U.S. 707 (1897); Andres _v._ United States, 333 U.S. 740,
748 (1948).

[8] Baltimore & C. Line _v._ Redman, 295 U.S. 654, 657 (1935); Walker
_v._ New Mexico, & S.P.R. Co., 165 U.S. 593, 596 (1897); Gasoline
Products Co. _v._ Champlin Ref. Co., 283 U.S. 494, 497-499 (1931);
Dimick _v._ Schiedt, 293 U.S. 474, 476, 485-486 (1935).

[9] Gasoline Products Co. _v._ Champlin Ref. Co., 283 U.S. 494, 498
(1931); Ex parte Peterson, 253 U.S. 300, 309 (1920).

[10] Pearson _v._ Yewdall, 95 U.S. 294, 296 (1877). _See also_ Edwards
_v._ Elliott, 21 Wall. 532, 557 (1874); Justices of the Sup. Ct. _v._
United States ex rel. Murray, 9 Wall. 274, 277 (1870); Walker _v._
Sauvinet, 92 U.S. 90 (1876); St. Louis & K.C. Land Co. _v._ Kansas City,
241 U.S. 419 (1916).

[11] Webster _v._ Reid, 11 How. 437, 460 (1851); Kennon _v._ Gilmer, 131
U.S. 22, 28 (1889).

[12] Capital Traction Co. _v._ Hof, 174 U.S. 1, 5 (1899).

[13] Minneapolis & St. L.R. Co. _v._ Bombolis, 241 U.S. 211 (1916),
which involved The Federal Employers Liability Act of 1908. The ruling
is followed in four other cases in the same volume. _See_ ibid. 241,
261, 485 and 494.

[14] Shields _v._ Thomas, 18 How. 253, 262 (1856).

[15] Parsons _v._ Bedford, 3 Pet. 433, 447 (1830); Barton _v._ Barbour,
104 U.S. 126, 133 (1881).

[16] Clark _v._ Wooster, 119 U.S. 322, 325 (1886); Pease _v._
Rathbun-Jones Eng. Co., 243 U.S. 273, 279 (1917).

[17] Parsons _v._ Bedford, above; Waring _v._ Clarke, 5 How. 441, 460
(1847).