Term recap
October Term 1853 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1853, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
82
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
28
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down December 23, 1853 and the last on May 26, 1854. The busiest single day was February 27, 1854 with 7 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
December 1853 · 6 decisions
January 1854 · 19 decisions
- Eyre v. Potter
- Phelps v. Mayer
- Bispham v. Price
- Kanouse v. Martin
- United States v. D'Auterieve
- United States v. Ducros
- Rockhill v. Hanna
- Adams v. Law Ex Rel. Robinson
- Broome v. United States
- Bevins v. Ramsey
- Sizer v. Many
- Corning v. Burden
- Garrow v. Davis
- Anderson v. Bock
- Carter v. Bennett
- O'Reilly v. Morse
- Northern Indiana Railroad Co. v. MICHIGAN CENT. RD. CO.
- Magniac v. Thomson
- United States v. Dawson
February 1854 · 25 decisions
- Smith v. Ely
- Forsyth v. Reynolds
- Livingston v. Woodworth
- Kearney v. Taylor
- Wylie v. Coxe
- Murray v. Gibson
- John Den, Ex Dem. Archibald Russell, in Error v. The Association of the Jersey Company
- Corning v. the Troy Iron and Nail Factory
- Lewis v. Darling
- Adams v. Otterback
- Brooks v. Fiske
- Winans v. Denmead
- Walworth v. Kneeland
- Thorp v. Raymond
- Foley v. Harrison
- Chouteau v. Molony
- Turner v. Yates
- United States v. Hughes
- Denise v. Ruggles
- Chapman Ex Rel. Leavitt v. Smith
- Piquignot v. Pennsylvania Railroad
- Edward P. Fourniquet and Wife, and Martin W. Ewing and Wife v. John Perkins
- Conrad v. Griffey
- Yerger v. Jones
- EXECUTORS OF McDONOGH v. MURDOCH
March 1854 · 5 decisions
April 1854 · 2 decisions
May 1854 · 25 decisions
- Deshler v. Dodge
- Irwin v. United States
- Guitard v. Stoddard
- Amis v. Myers
- The Steamboat New World v. King
- Homer v. Brown
- Marshall v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
- Davenport v. Fletcher
- Stafford v. the Union Bank of Louisiana
- Southard v. Russell
- Barney Ex Rel. Woodhull v. Saunders
- Gamache v. Piquignot
- Maillard v. Lawrence
- CROSS v. Harrison
- Stuart v. Maxwell
- Cervantes v. United States
- Calvert v. Bradley
- Ohio Life Insurance & Trust Co. v. Debolt
- Piqua Branch of State Bank of Ohio v. Knoop
- Early v. Doe
- Early v. Rogers
- Slicer Ex Rel. Slicer v. Bank of Pittsburg
- Fanning v. Gregoire
- Seymour v. McCormick
- Bartlett v. Kane
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