Term recap
October Term 1849 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1849, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
84
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
42
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down December 11, 1849 and the last on May 29, 1850. The busiest single day was May 28, 1850 with 9 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
December 1849 · 3 decisions
January 1850 · 17 decisions
- Doe v. Watson
- Doe Ex Dem. Barbarie v. Eslava
- Surgett v. Lapice
- United States v. Buchanan
- Phalen v. Virginia
- Ladd Ex Rel. Montgomery v. Ladd
- Nathan v. Louisiana
- Veazie v. Williams
- McClanahan v. Davis
- Peale v. Phipps
- Reed v. Proprietors of Locks and Canals on Merrimac River
- Bissell v. Penrose
- Caldwell v. United States
- Clark v. President of the Manufacturers' Insurance
- Williams v. Benedict
- Taylor Ex Rel. Walker v. Taylor
- Mills v. Stoddard
February 1850 · 22 decisions
- Marsh v. Brooks
- Wanzer v. Tupper & Rollins
- West v. Smith
- Murrill v. Neill
- Gibson v. Stevens
- Bennett v. Butterworth
- Maxwell v. Kennedy
- Menard's Heirs v. Massey
- Grove v. Brien
- Le Roy v. Beard
- Sheldon v. Sill
- Mills v. County of St. Clair
- Kennedy v. Georgia State Bank
- Lord v. Veazie
- Jacob P. Wilson v. Daniel Barnum
- Prentice v. Zane's Administrator.
- Williamson v. Berry
- Williamson v. Irish Presbyterian Congregation of City of New York
- Williamson v. Ball
- Alexandrine Mager v. Felix Grima
- United States v. Reynes
- Neves v. Scott
March 1850 · 2 decisions
April 1850 · 10 decisions
May 1850 · 30 decisions
- Perrine v. Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Co.
- United States v. Marigold
- Withers v. Greene
- Hill v. the United States
- Lytle v. the State of Arkansas
- FLEMING v. Page
- Humphreys v. Leggett, Smith, & Lawrence
- The United States v. Ephraim Briggs
- Gaines v. Nicholson
- Barrow v. Reab
- Harrison v. Vose
- Smith Hogan, Arthur S. Hogan, and Richard Y. Reynolds, in Error v. Aaron Ross, Who Sues for the Use of Robert Patterson
- Davis v. Police Jury of the Parish of Concordia
- Lessee of Atkinson v. Cummins
- Tayloe v. Merchants' Fire Ins. Co. of Baltimore
- Walden v. Bodley's Heirs
- Loftin Cotton, in Error v. The United States
- Simpson v. United States
- Townsend v. Jemison
- Doe v. Mayor, Alderman, and Common Council of Mobile
- John Goodtitle v. Gaius Kibbe
- United States v. Brown
- President of the Bank of Alabama v. Dalton
- Bayard v. Lombard
- Forsyth v. United States
- The State of Pennsylvania v. The Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Company, William Ottersan, and George Croft
- The United States, in Error v. Horace Southmayd and Stephen C. Southmayd
- Marriott v. Brune
- United States v. Roberts
- Lambert v. Ghiselin
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