Term recap
October Term 1856 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1856, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
61
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
20
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down December 1, 1856 and the last on March 18, 1857. The busiest single day was March 18, 1857 with 13 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
December 1856 · 9 decisions
January 1857 · 22 decisions
- Ex Parte Secombe
- Ure v. Coffman
- Stevens v. Gladding & Proud
- Jean Louis Prevost, in Error v. Charles E. Greneaux, Treasurer of the State of Louisiana
- Williams v. Hill, McLane, & Co.
- Morgan v. Curtenius
- Coiron v. Millaudon
- C. C. Lathrop, in Error v. Charles Judson
- Vandewater v. Mills
- Seymour v. McCormick
- Rogers v. Steamer St. Charles
- Betts v. Lewis
- Meegan v. Boyle
- EJ DuPont De Nemours & Co. v. Vance
- Shaffer v. Scudday
- Of the Steamer Virginia v. West
- Brown v. Duchesne
- Cousin v. Blanc's
- Hartshorn v. Day
- New York and Virginia Steamship v. Ezra Calderwood
- Bell v. Hearne
- Post v. Jones
February 1857 · 17 decisions
- Slater v. Emerson
- Hipp v. Babin
- Commercial Mutual Marine Insurance v. Union Mutual Insurance Co.
- Mordecai v. Lindsay
- Schuchardt v. Babbidge
- Richardson v. City of Boston
- Wolfe v. Lewis
- Babcock v. Wyman
- Field v. Seabury
- Field v. Seabury
- Burke v. Gaines
- Garrison v. Memphis Insurance Company
- Walton v. Cotton
- Pratt v. Reed
- Tod v. Steamboat Sultana
- United States v. City Bank of Columbus
- Bulkley v. Honold
March 1857 · 13 decisions
- Beebe v. Russell
- Farrelly v. Woodfolk
- Byers v. Surget
- Bryan v. Forsyth
- Ballance v. Papin
- United States v. Peralta
- McCULLOUGH v. ROOTS
- United States v. Sutherland
- Fellows v. Blacksmith
- McRea v. Branch of the Bank of Alabama
- Michigan Central Railroad v. Michigan Southern Railroad
- Ballard v. Thomas
- Dred Scott v. Sandford
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