Term recap
October Term 1837 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1837, 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
16
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down January 1, 1838 and the last on March 18, 1838. The busiest single day was March 18, 1838 with 14 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
January 1838 · 4 decisions
February 1838 · 16 decisions
- United States v. Laub
- Benton v. Woolsey
- Ex Parte Poultney v. THE CITY OF LA FAYETTE
- McNiel v. Holbrook
- John Mkinney v. John Carroll
- Toland v. Sprague
- Clarke v. Mathewson
- Bradstreet v. Thomas
- West v. Brashear
- The State of Rhode Island v. the State of Massachusetts
- City of Georgetown v. THE ALEXANDRIA CANAL COMPANY, &C.
- Clarke v. White
- Jenkins v. Pye
- Stelle v. Carroll
- Reynolds v. Douglass
- Lyon v. James Auchincloss & Co.
March 1838 · 22 decisions
- Beaston v. Farmers' Bank of Del.
- N. Rogers & Sons v. Batchelor
- Hepburn v. Dubois
- Ex Parte Sibbald v. United States
- White v. Turk
- Galloway v. Finley
- Garcia v. Lee
- Kendall v. United States Ex Rel. Stokes
- The Heirs of Wilson v. THE LIFE & FIRE INS. CO. OF NY
- Sarchet v. United States
- Scott v. Lloyd
- Zacharie v. Franklin
- Adams, Cunningham & Co. v. Jones
- The United States v. William Mills' Heirs
- Levy v. Arredondo
- Ex Parte Story v. Story
- Bradlie v. the Maryland Insurance Company
- Strother v. Lucas
- United States v. Kingsley
- Pierre Choteau, Senior, in Error v. Marguerite, a Woman of Colour
- The United States v. Joseph Delespine's Heirs, Lazarus and Others
- The State of Massachusetts Ads.
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