Term recap
October Term 1854 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1854, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
68
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
18
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down December 14, 1854 and the last on March 18, 1855. The busiest single day was March 18, 1855 with 15 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
December 1854 · 7 decisions
January 1855 · 20 decisions
- City of Providence v. Clapp
- President of the Bank of Tennessee v. Horn
- Propeller Monticello v. Mollison
- Fontain v. Ravenel
- Clark v. Clark
- Stewart v. United States
- Lawrence v. Minturn
- United States v. One Case of Clocks
- United States v. One Package of Merchandise
- United States v. Nine Cases of Silk Hats
- United States v. Sixty-Seven Packages of Dry Goods
- Raymond v. Tyson
- Wickliffe v. Owings
- United States v. Coxe
- Olney v. the Steam-Ship Falcon
- James Udall, Libellant and v. The Steam-Ship Ohio, Her Tackle, &C., Marshall O. Roberts and Others
- Bogart v. the Steamboat John Jay
- Shields v. Thomas
- Widow & Heirs of De La Lande v. Treasurer of the State
- Burchell v. Marsh
February 1855 · 20 decisions
- Hendrickson v. Hinckley
- City of Boston v. Lecraw
- CARPENTER v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
- Bruce v. United States
- Coy v. Mason
- Pulliam v. Osborne
- Rhodes v. Farmer
- Adams v. Law Ex Rel. Robinson
- Gooding v. Oliver
- Williams v. Gibbes
- McBlair v. Gibbes
- Haydel v. Dufresne
- STAFFORD ET UX. v. Union Bank of Louisiana
- STAFFORD ET UX. v. New Orleans Canal and Banking Company
- United States Ex Rel. Goodrich v. Guthrie
- West v. Cochran
- Herndon v. Ridgway
- Stevens v. Gladding
- Shields v. Barrow
- Wickliffe v. Eve
March 1855 · 21 decisions
- The Schooner Catharine v. Dickinson
- Minturn v. Maynard
- United States v. Ritchie
- Fremont v. United States
- Hays v. the Pacific Mail Steam-Ship Co.
- Christy v. Alford
- Peck v. Sanderson
- Iasigi v. Brown
- United States v. Nickerson
- Henshaw v. Miller
- United States Ex Rel. Tucker v. Seaman
- Booth v. Clark
- Boone v. Missouri Iron Co.
- Hinkle v. Wanzer
- State of Florida v. State of Georgia
- Wanzer v. Bennett R.
- Ayres v. Carver
- Dennistoun v. Stewart
- Griffin v. Reynolds
- Judson v. Corcoran
- Lewis v. Bell
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