Term recap
October Term 1850 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1850, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
81
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
28
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down December 18, 1850 and the last on March 18, 1851. The busiest single day was January 18, 1851 with 8 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
December 1850 · 8 decisions
January 1851 · 30 decisions
- State of Florida v. State of Georgia
- Louisville Manufacturing Co. v. Welch
- Town of East Hartford v. HartFord Bridge Co.
- Barnard v. Adams
- Gilmer v. Poindexter
- Oakey v. Bennett
- VILLALOBOS v. United States
- Gayler v. Wilder
- Landes v. Brant
- HENDERSON v. State of Tennessee
- James G. Wilson v. George A. Sanford and Robert G. Musgrove
- Strader v. Graham
- Preston v. Bracken
- McNulty v. Batty
- State of Missouri v. State of Iowa
- Cotton v. United States
- United States v. Girault
- BUTLER v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
- Stockton v. Ford
- McGill v. Armour
- McCoy v. Rhodes
- Ex Parte Rhodes v. the Steamship Galveston
- Blanc v. Lafayette
- United States v. Brooks
- Washington, Alexandria, & Georgetown Steam Packet Co. v. Sickles
- Maxwell v. Griswold
- Greely v. Thompson
- Jehiel Brooks, in Error v. Samuel Norris
- Robinson v. Minor
- United States v. Gullem
February 1851 · 25 decisions
- Ex Parte Boyd v. Scott
- Oldfield v. Marriott
- Newton v. Stebbins
- St. John v. Paine
- Bevins & Earle Ex Rel. Earle v. Ramsey
- United States v. Morgan
- United States v. Boisdore
- United States v. D'Auterive
- Phillips v. Preston
- Hogan v. Ross Ex Rel. Patterson
- Hotchkiss v. Greenwood
- Simon Gratz's Executors v. Cohen
- Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad Co. v. Nesbit
- Hortsman v. Henshaw
- Gruner v. United States
- Woodruff v. Trapnall
- United States v. Turner
- United States v. Philadelphia and New Orleans
- Warner v. Martin
- James Trigg v. Thomas S. Drew
- John W. Paup v. Thomas S. Drew
- State of Pennsylvania v. WHEELING AND BELMONT BRIDGE CO.
- Reeside v. Walker
- D'Arcy v. Ketchum
- League v. DE YOUNG
March 1851 · 18 decisions
- United States v. Hughes
- Conrad v. Griffey
- Clements v. Berry
- Parks v. Ross
- Weatherhead's Lessee v. Baskerville
- Philadelphia and Wilmington Railroad Co. v. State of Maryland
- Gill v. Oliver's Executors
- Spear v. Place
- Buren v. Digges Ex Rel. Libbey
- Moore v. Brown
- Bennett v. Butterworth
- Larman v. Tisdale's Heirs
- United States v. Power's Heirs
- Randon v. Toby
- Webster v. Reid
- Fowler v. Merrill
- Van Renesselaer v. Kearney
- Lecompte v. United States
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