Term recap
October Term 1847 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1847, 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
16
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down December 21, 1847 and the last on March 18, 1848. The busiest single day was March 18, 1848 with 14 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
December 1847 · 5 decisions
- President of the Bank of the United States v. Moss
- William M. Gwin, Late Marshal, and Jacob S. Yerger and Robert Hughes, His Sureties, in Error v. C. T. And A. Barton, in Error
- Sims v. Hundley
- Collier v. Stanbrough
- The United States v. James and John G. Daniel, Executors of Beverly Daniel, Late U. S. Marshal
January 1848 · 8 decisions
February 1848 · 4 decisions
March 1848 · 19 decisions
- Bein v. Heath
- United States v. Hodge
- Bush v. Marshall
- Hogg v. Emerson
- Houston v. City Bank of New Orleans
- Marshall v. Beall
- Brashear v. Mason
- United States v. Curry
- Shelton v. Tiffin
- Pease v. Dwight
- Forgay v. Conrad
- John Perkins v. Edward F. Fourniquet and Wife, and Martin W. Ewing and Wife
- Samuel T. Pulliam and Others v. Edmund Christian, Assignee in Bankruptcy of William Allen
- President of the Bank of the Metropolis v. President of the New England Bank
- Sheppard v. Wilson
- McMicken v. Webb
- Planters' Bank v. Sharp
- New Jersey Steam Navigation Company v. MERCHANTS'BANK.
- The United States v. Henry Yates and Archibald McIntyre
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