Term recap
October Term 1840 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1840, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
31
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
12
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down January 26, 1841 and the last on March 18, 1841. The busiest single day was February 18, 1841 with 9 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
January 1841 · 2 decisions
February 1841 · 20 decisions
- Brush v. Ware
- United States v. Heirs of Delespine
- United States v. Rodman
- United States v. Heirs of Forbes
- Gorman v. Lenox's Executors
- Houseman v. Cargo of the Schooner North Carolina
- Buyck v. United States
- Levy v. Fitzpatrick
- Gwin v. Breedlove
- Amis v. Pearle
- United States v. Boyd
- United States v. Dickson
- Smith v. Clapp
- Ex Parte Crenshaw
- MITCHEL v. United States
- Gaines v. Relf
- Vaughan v. Northup
- United States v. Linn
- Young v. Smith
- O'Hara v. United States
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