Term recap
October Term 1846 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1846, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
36
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
15
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down December 10, 1846 and the last on March 18, 1847. The busiest single day was March 18, 1847 with 8 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
December 1846 · 6 decisions
January 1847 · 16 decisions
- McAfee v. Doremus
- Innerarity v. Byrne
- Cook v. MOFFAT
- Bridges v. Armour
- United States v. the Bank of the United States
- Henry A. Hall v. William Smith
- Alexandria Canal Co. v. Swann
- Miller v. Herbert
- Samuel Hildeburn v. Henry Turner
- United States v. Lawton
- Sewall v. Chamberlain
- Barry v. Mercein
- Ford v. Douglas
- ROWAN v. Runnels
- Nelson v. Hill
- Jacob S. Mayberry, in Error v. James H. Thompson
February 1847 · 6 decisions
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