Term recap
October Term 1845 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1845, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
47
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
20
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down December 10, 1845 and the last on March 18, 1846. The busiest single day was March 18, 1846 with 13 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
December 1845 · 11 decisions
- Buchanan v. Alexander
- Levi v. Thompson
- Thomas Maney, and Others, in Error v. Thomas J. Porter
- Garrard v. Lessee of Reynolds
- Brandon v. Whitehead
- William M. Gwinn, Marshal, in Error v. Buchanan, Hagan, & Co., for the Use of William Holliday & Co
- Tombigbee Railroad v. Kneeland
- Smyth v. STRADER
- Rankin v. Hoyt
- Lyman A. Spalding, in Error v. The People of the State of New York, Ex Rel. Frederic F. Backus
- Erwin's Lessee v. Dundas
January 1846 · 16 decisions
- Brown v. Union Bank of Florida
- Brown v. Clarke
- Gratiot v. United States
- Paige v. Sessions
- Richard Charles Downes, in Error v. William S. Scott
- Holliday v. Batson
- Stimpson v. West Chester Railroad
- Clifton v. United States
- Garland v. Davis
- United States v. McLemore
- Beals v. Hale
- Hardeman v. Anderson
- Jourdan v. Barrett
- Lucius W. Stockton and Daniel Moore, in Error v. Harriet Bishop
- Cookendorfer v. Preston
- Musson v. Lake
February 1846 · 7 decisions
- Buckley v. United States
- Carpenter v. Providence Washington Insurance
- John A. Barry, in Error v. Mary Mercein and Eliza Ann Barry
- Harris v. Robinson
- John Knox, James Boggs, and James A. Knox, Trading Under the Firm of Knox, Boggs, & Co. v. Peyton Smith and Others
- Zeller's Lessee v. Eckert
- The Agricultural Bank of Mississippi and Others, in Error v. Charles Rice and Mary His Wife, and Martha Phipps
March 1846 · 13 decisions
- Wilson v. Turner
- Woodworth v. Wilson
- Andrew P. Simpson, Joseph Forsyth, and Bagdad Mills v. James G. Wilson
- Wilson v. Rousseau
- Rhode Island v. Massachusetts
- Hunt v. Palao
- Edward Bradford, in Error v. Robert W. Williams, and John Judge, in Error v. Robert W. Williams
- United States v. Rogers
- Michoud v. Girod
- Aspden v. Nixon
- Les Bois v. Bramell
- MacKay v. Dillon
- Foxcroft v. Mallett
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