Term recap
October Term 1857 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1857, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
73
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
20
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down December 24, 1857 and the last on May 18, 1858. The busiest single day was May 18, 1858 with 17 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
December 1857 · 5 decisions
January 1858 · 13 decisions
- Richmond v. City of Milwaukie
- Jones v. McMasters Ex Rel. Ybarba
- Bacon v. Howard
- Amos Wade v. Jacob R. Leroy and Henry E. Pierrepoint
- Withers v. Buckley
- United States v. De Pacheco
- Horace C. Silsby v. Elisha Foote
- Benjamin F. Morgan, in Error v. Alfred G. Curtenius and John L. Griswold
- Doswell v. De La Lanza
- Brown v. Shannon
- United States v. Cambuston
- Teller v. Patten
- Secombe v. Steele
February 1858 · 24 decisions
- Hudgins v. Kemp
- Hudgins v. Kemp
- McMicken v. Perin
- Smith Ex Rel. Cushing v. Corporation of Washington
- Commercial Bank of Manchester v. Buckner
- William S. Hungerford v. John Sigerson
- Grant v. Poillon
- Hyde v. Stone
- Dean v. Mason
- Ex Parte Mussina v. Cavazos
- Dynes v. Hoover
- Mattingly v. Boyd
- Lyon v. Bertram
- Chaffee v. Hayward
- Fisher v. Haldeman
- Day v. Union India Rubber Co.
- McGavock v. Woodlief
- White v. Burnley
- Leitensdorfer v. Webb
- Jacob U. Payne v. Jonathan J. Niles
- Covington Drawbridge Company v. SHEPHERD
- Gilbert L. Thompson v. William Selden
- United States v. Breitling
- Spencer v. Lapsley
April 1858 · 4 decisions
May 1858 · 27 decisions
- Brown v. Wiley
- Stinson v. Dousman
- Roberts v. Cooper
- Selden v. Myers
- Suydam v. Williamson
- Alfred Ingraham v. Henry S. Dawson
- Sigerson v. Mathews
- Beers Ex Rel. Platenius v. Arkansas
- Bank of Washington v. State of Arkansas
- Irvine v. Marshall
- Silsby v. Foote
- Gazzam v. Lessee of Phillips
- People's Ferry Company of Boston v. Beers
- Warner v. Norton
- Marks v. Dickson
- Ahl v. Johnson
- Moreland v. Page
- McFaul v. Ramsey
- Barton v. Forsyth
- Williams v. Gibbes
- Whyte v. Gibbes
- Snow v. Hill
- Holcombe v. McKusick
- McCargo v. Chapman
- Sampson v. Peaslee
- Ex Parte in the Matter of Franklin Ransom and Uzziah Weeman v. The Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty, of the City of New York
- James L. v. Carryl
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