Term recap
October Term 1851 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1851, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
98
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
33
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down December 11, 1851 and the last on May 27, 1852. The busiest single day was March 18, 1852 with 13 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
December 1851 · 12 decisions
- De Montault v. United States
- President of the Farmers' Bank v. Groves
- Lessieur v. Price
- Neilson v. Lagow
- Parks v. Turner
- Thredgill v. Pintard
- United States v. Bromley
- Harris v. Runnels
- Williams, Trustee v. Oliver
- Williams v. Oliver
- President of the Miners' Bank v. Iowa Ex Rel. District Prosecuting Attorney
- Russell v. Southard
January 1852 · 12 decisions
- Christy v. Findley
- Sheppard v. Graves
- United States v. Moore
- Binns v. Lawrence
- Dorsey v. Packwood
- Ives v. Merchants Bank of Boston
- Grand Gulf Railroad & Banking Co. v. Marshall
- Wilbur v. Almy
- Lyman v. President of the Bank of the United States
- United States v. Wilkinson
- Joshua B. Bond, Administrator of Mary Ann Cade, in Error v. James Brown
- Dundas v. Hitchcock
February 1852 · 21 decisions
- Crawford v. Points
- Doe Ex Dem. Hallett v. Beebe
- Darrington v. Branch of the Bank of Alabama
- Smith v. Clark
- Erwin v. Parham
- Clark v. Barnwell
- Achison v. Huddleson
- United States v. Reid
- Snead v. McCoull
- Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad v. Louisa Railroad
- United States v. Armand Pillerin
- McCormick v. Gray
- Teal v. Felton
- The Propeller Genesee Chief v. Fitzhugh
- Dinsman v. Wilkes
- The United States v. Alexis Porche
- United States v. Simon
- United States v. Leblanc
- United States v. Castant
- The United States v. Joseph Hughes
- Ballance v. Forsyth
March 1852 · 13 decisions
- Bein v. Heath
- Cooley v. Board of Wardens of Port of Philadelphia Ex Rel. Soc. for Relief of Distressed Pilots
- Union Bank of Louisiana v. STAFFORD
- New Orleans Canal & Banking Co. v. Stafford
- Rich v. Lambert
- Bennett v. Butterworth
- Sargeant v. the State Bank of Indiana
- Duncan Linton v. Frederick Stanton
- Fretz v. Bull
- Gaines v. Relf
- United States v. Ferreira
- Jecker v. Montgomery
- Smyth v. Strader, Pevine, & Co.
April 1852 · 16 decisions
- GLENN v. United States
- Morsell v. Hall
- Williamson v. Barrett
- Buckingham v. McLean
- Buckingham v. McLean
- Walsh v. Rogers
- Parish v. Murphree
- Coffee v. Planters Bank of Tenn.
- Henry Miller, in Error v. David Austen, William S. Wilmerding, and David Austen, Jr.
- United States v. Thomas P. Harrison
- Campbell v. Doe Ex Dem. Trustees & Treasurer of Original Surveyed Township
- The HEIRS OF DON CARLOS DE VILEMONT v. United States
- Tremlett v. Adams
- Very v. Levy
- Taylor v. Doe Ex Dem. Miller
- Bradford v. President of the Union Bank of Tennessee
May 1852 · 24 decisions
- Hogan v. Ross Ex Rel. Patterson
- Weems v. George
- Rogers v. Lindsey
- McAfee v. Crofford
- Mitchell v. Harmony
- Lord v. Goddard
- Day v. Woodworth
- Tyler v. Black
- Robert R. Barrow, in Error v. Nathaniel B. Hill
- United States v. McCULLAGH
- Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad v. Howard
- Alanson Saltmarsh v. James W. Tuthill
- Saltmarsh v. Tuthill
- Neves v. Scott
- De Forest v. Lawrence
- Fowler v. Hart
- Howard v. Ingersoll
- Norris v. Crocker
- Hill v. Tucker
- Goodall v. Tucker
- Pillow v. Roberts
- United States v. Hodge
- Lawrence v. Caswell
- State of Penn. v. THE WHEELING &C. BRIDGE CO.
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