Term recap
October Term 1839 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1839, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
43
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
16
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down January 21, 1840 and the last on March 18, 1840. The busiest single day was March 18, 1840 with 13 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
January 1840 · 3 decisions
February 1840 · 27 decisions
- Frevall v. Bache
- West v. Brashear
- The Bank of Alexandria, in Error v. Edward and Francis Dyer, in Error
- The Commonwealth Bank of Kentucky v. GRIFFITH
- Keene v. Whitaker
- Remington v. Linthicum
- Lessee of Lattimer v. Poteet
- Kane v. Paul
- Carr v. Duval
- William & James Brown & Co. v. McGran
- United States v. Knight
- Walden v. Bodley
- Preston v. Keene
- Runyan v. Lessee of Coster
- Mitchell v. Lenox
- Covington v. Comstock
- Lessee of Pollard's Heirs v. Kibbe
- Smith v. Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co.
- United States v. Wiggins
- Taylor v. Longworth
- Philadelphia & Trenton Railroad v. Stimpson
- Peters v. Warren Insurance
- Lessee of Brewer v. Blougher
- Edmonds v. Crenshaw
- Suydam v. Broadnax
- Commercial & Railroad Bank of Vicksburg v. Slocomb, Richards & Co.
- United States v. Morris
March 1840 · 13 decisions
- Holmes v. Jennison
- United States v. Gratiot
- United States v. Stone
- Decatur v. Paulding
- United States v. Heirs of Waterman
- United States v. Wood
- Games v. Stiles Ex Dem. Dunn
- Fowler v. Brantly
- Irvine Ex Rel. Lumberman's Bank at Warren v. Lowry
- De Valengin's Administrators v. Duffy
- The State of Rhode Island v. the State of Massachusetts
- Sprigg v. Bank of Mount Pleasant
- Atkins v. N. & J. Dick & Co.
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