Term recap
October Term 1820 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1820, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
42
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
13
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down February 12, 1821 and the last on March 18, 1821. The busiest single day was March 18, 1821 with 9 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
February 1821 · 15 decisions
- Hopkins v. Lee
- Thatcher v. Powell
- Randolph v. Barbour
- Mayhew v. Thatcher
- Farmers & Mechanics' Bank of Pennsylvania v. Smith
- United States v. Wilkins
- Bussard v. Levering
- Lindenberger v. Beall
- Mechanics' Bank of Alexandria v. Withers
- The Amiable Isabella
- Young v. Bryan
- The Bello Corrunes. The Spanish Consul
- Smith v. Universal Insurance
- The Robert Edwards
- The Nueva Anna and Liebre
March 1821 · 27 decisions
- Hughes v. Blake
- Bartle v. Coleman
- Prevost v. Gratz
- Bowie v. Henderson
- The United States v. Daniel
- United States v. Six Packages of Goods
- Brashier v. Gratz
- Gibbons v. Ogden
- Spring v. South Carolina Insurance
- Miller v. Kerr
- Kerr v. Watts
- Leeds v. Marine Insurance
- Union Bank v. Hyde
- Clark v. Graham
- Preston's Heirs v. Bowmar
- Otis v. Walter
- Goszler v. Corporation of Georgetown
- Mutual Assurance Society v. Faxon
- The Collector. Wilmot
- Anderson v. Dunn
- La Conception.
- Willinks v. Hollingsworth
- Green v. Watkins
- Cohens v. Virginia
- Sullivan v. Fulton Steam Boat Co.
- The Jonquille
- McClung v. Silliman
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