Term recap
October Term 1808 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1808, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
46
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
17
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down January 1, 1809 and the last on March 18, 1809. The busiest single day was March 15, 1809 with 8 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
January 1809 · 2 decisions
February 1809 · 16 decisions
- Welsh v. Mandeville & Jamesson
- Tucker v. Oxley
- Matthews v. Zane's Lessee
- United States v. Weeks
- Mandeville and Jamesson v. Wilson
- Alexander v. Mayor of Alexandria
- Henderson v. Moore
- Cooke v. Woodrow
- Kempe's Lessee v. Kennedy
- United States v. Peters
- Fairfax's v. Fairfax
- Violett v. Patton
- The United States v. John Arthur and Robert Patterson
- Hodgson v. Marine Ins. Co. of Alexandria
- The United States v. Evans
- The Marine Insurance Company of Alexandria v. James Young
March 1809 · 28 decisions
- Himely v. Rose
- Yeaton v. Bank of Alexandria
- Young v. The Bank of Alexandria
- Dulany v. Hodgkin
- McKeen v. Delancy's Lessee
- Moss v. Riddle & Co
- Yeaton v. Fry
- Riddle & Co. v. Mandeville & Jamesson
- Pierce v. Turner
- Sloop Sally v. The United States
- Auld v. Norwood
- Owings v. Norwood's Lessee
- Keene v. The United States
- Hepburn & Dundas v. Auld
- Bodley v. Taylor
- Rodford v. Craig
- The United States v. Vowell and M'clean
- Slacum v. Simms and Wise
- Brent v. Chapman
- Harrison v. Sterry
- Rush v. Parker
- Bank of the United States v. Deveaux
- The Hope Insurance Company of Providence v. Boardman
- United States v. Riddle
- Logan v. Patrick
- United States v. Potts
- Yeaton and Others, of the Schooner General Pinkney and Cargo v. The United States
- Taylor & Quarles v. Brown
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