Term recap
October Term 1841 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1841, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
44
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
12
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down January 25, 1842 and the last on March 18, 1842. The busiest single day was March 18, 1842 with 13 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
January 1842 · 2 decisions
February 1842 · 17 decisions
- United States v. the Heirs of Clarke and Atkinson
- United States v. Hanson
- United States v. John W. Low
- United States v. Breward
- Mayor of Mobile v. Eslava
- United States v. Miranda
- Tompkins v. Wheeler
- Fresh v. Gilson
- Long v. Palmer, Smith, & Co.
- Cocke Ex Rel. Commercial Bank of Columbus v. Halsey
- Keary v. the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Memphis
- BRANDER AND MKENNA v. Phillips and Company
- Hyde & Gleises v. Booraem & Co.
- Martin v. Lessee of Waddell
- Kelsey and Mintyre v. Hobby and Bond
- Fulton v. McAffee
- Harpending v. Minister, Elders, & Deacons of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church
March 1842 · 25 decisions
- Gibson v. Chew
- Bradstreet v. Potter
- Roach v. Hulings
- Wood v. United States
- Carver v. Hyde
- Todd v. Daniel
- Mauran v. Bullus
- Mayor of Mobile v. Hallett
- ARMSTRONG v. the Treasurer of Athens County
- United States v. Eliason
- Amis v. Smith
- Prouty and Mears v. RUGGLES
- Gordon v. Longest
- Nixdorff v. Smith
- John H. Randolph, of Algernon S. Randolph, Deceased, in Error v. Israel Barrett, of Joel F. Randolph, Deceased, in Error
- Hobson v. Heirs of McArthur
- United States v. Murphy
- Hozey v. Buchanan
- Milnor v. Metz
- Dobbins v. Commissioners of Erie County
- Charlotte A. Parish v. Harvey W. Ellis and Wife
- Carpenter v. Providence Washington Insurance
- Adam S. Mills and Others, in Error v. William G. Brown and Others, and the County of St. Clair, in Error
- Prigg v. Pennsylvania
- William H. Williams, in Error v. James Ash, in Error
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