Term recap
October Term 1848 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1848, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
42
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
16
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down December 19, 1848 and the last on March 18, 1849. The busiest single day was February 18, 1849 with 9 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
December 1848 · 2 decisions
January 1849 · 10 decisions
February 1849 · 15 decisions
- Smith v. Hunter
- United States v. King
- Wilkes v. Dinsman
- Nesmith v. Sheldon
- Fourniquet v. Perkins
- Erwin v. Lowry
- United States v. City of Chicago
- William Crawford and David Files, in Error v. The Branch Bank of Alabama at Mobile
- Smith v. Turner
- Peck v. Jenness
- Colby v. Ledden
- Barnard v. Gibson
- United States v. Heirs of Boisdoré
- Shawhan v. Wherritt
- McDonald v. Hobson
March 1849 · 15 decisions
- Udell v. Davidson
- Van Rensselaer v. Watts's Executors
- State of Missouri v. Iowa
- Jones v. United States
- Harris v. Wall
- Townsend v. Jemison
- Massingill v. Downs
- Hall Neilson, in Error v. Wilson Lagow
- Lewis Ex Rel. Longworth v. Lewis
- Hugg v. Augusta Insurance and Banking Co.
- William and Francis Sadler v. Thomas B. Hoover, Sylvanus Chambers, and Samuel H. Dinkins, Partners by the Style of Thomas B. Hoover and Company
- Cutler v. Rae
- Lawrence v. Allen
- Eleazer F. Backus, in Error v. William Gould and David Banks, Who Sue as Well for the United States as Themselves
- Stearns v. Page
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