Term recap
October Term 1838 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1838, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
50
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
15
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down January 1, 1839 and the last on March 18, 1839. The busiest single day was March 18, 1839 with 18 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
January 1839 · 6 decisions
February 1839 · 26 decisions
- The Bank of the United States v. Elizabeth Lee
- Andrews v. Pond
- Columbian Insurance Company v. Ashby & Stribling
- Smith v. Richards
- Ross v. Duval
- The United States v. Moses E. Levy
- United States v. Drummond
- United States v. Burgevin
- The US v. the Heirs of Fernando De La Maza Arredondo
- Wallace v. McConnell
- Lessee of Reed v. Marsh
- Stein v. Bowman
- McElmoyle Ex Rel. Bailey v. Cohen
- Bradley v. Washington, Alexandria, & Georgetown Steam Packet Co.
- United States v. Hardyman
- Ocean Insurance v. Polleys
- Ann Lupton v. Phineas Janney, of David Lupton, the Younger, Deceased
- King v. Thompson
- Walker v. Parker
- The Bank of the United States v. Peter
- Bend v. Hoyt
- Hardy v. Hoyt
- Moore v. Bank of the Metropolis
- Keene v. Whittaker
- Moncure v. Dermott
- Clark v. Smith
March 1839 · 18 decisions
- Bank of Augusta v. Earle
- Wilcox v. Jackson
- MEREDITH v. United States
- Burton v. Smith
- Nathan Carr and Others v. Joseph Hoxie
- Bagnell v. Broderick
- Anthony v. Butler
- Williams v. Suffolk Insurance
- Heirs of Emerson v. Hall
- Ex Parte Myra Clarke Whitney
- The New England Insurance Company v. the Sarah Ann
- Wilcox v. Hunt
- Story v. Livingston
- United States v. the Heirs of Fm Arredondo
- Stokes v. Saltonstall
- Downes & Co. v. Church
- Ex Parte Jesse Hoyt
- Van Ness v. Hyatt
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