Henderson v. Mayor of New York, 92 U.S. 259 (1876), was decision of the United States Supreme Court delivered by Justice Samuel Freeman Miller.

The brothers brought the case to the Supreme Court alleging that the state law infringed upon an exclusive Congressional power over foreign commerce.

[2] The report of passenger information was upheld by the Supreme Court in Mayor of New York v. Miln (1837) as a legitimate exercise of the state police power.

[2] Quoting Chief Justice John Marshall's decision in Gibbons v. Ogden the Court asserts the supremacy of the Constitution: "In every such case the act of Congress or the treaty is supreme; and the laws of the State, though enacted in the exercise of powers not controverted, must yield to it."

The Taney Court's decision in Cooley v. Board of Wardens authored by Justice Benjamin Robbins Curtis was a compromise position articulating a doctrine of partial federal exclusivity.