Term recap
October Term 1858 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1858, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
66
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
14
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down December 28, 1858 and the last on March 18, 1859. The busiest single day was March 11, 1859 with 16 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
December 1858 · 6 decisions
January 1859 · 15 decisions
- Winans v. New York & Erie Railroad
- Richmond v. City of Milwaukie
- Union Insurance v. Hoge
- Lownsdale v. Parrish
- Philadelphia, Wilmington, & Baltimore Railroad v. Quigley
- Mason v. Gamble
- Livermore v. Jenckes
- Leggett v. Humphreys
- Propeller Niagara v. Cordes
- Thomas v. Lawson
- McKINLAY v. MORRISH
- Lessee of French and Wife v. Spencer
- Campbell v. Boyreau
- The Insurance Company of the Valley of Virginia, in Error v. Moses C. Mordecai
- Barreda v. Silsbee
February 1859 · 22 decisions
- United States v. Bassett
- United States v. Nye
- Martin v. Imhsen
- United States v. City Bank of Columbus
- Brown v. Huger
- Charles Belcher & Co. v. Lawrason
- United States v. Sutter
- Combs v. Hodge
- Henry Hill, in Error v. Caleb B. Smith and Others
- Maguire v. Card
- Allen v. Newberry
- Smith v. Orton
- Cushing v. Owners of the Ship John Fraser
- Pemberton v. Lockett
- Poorman v. Woodward
- New York Ex Rel. Cutler v. Dibble
- New York & Liverpool United States Mail Steamship Co. v. Rumball
- Ballance v. Forsyth
- Porter v. Foley
- White Water Valley Canal Company v. Vallette
- Doe Ex Dem. Dickins v. Mahana
- Montgomery v. Anderson
March 1859 · 23 decisions
- Walker v. Smith
- Pearce v. Madison & Indianapolis Railroad
- United States v. Fossatt
- Sturgis v. Clough
- Western Telegraph Company v. Magnetic Telegraph Company
- Western Telegraph Company v. Penniman
- Converse v. United States
- Fenn v. Holme
- Clearwater v. Meredith
- Lea v. Polk County Copper Co.
- Board of Comm'rs of Knox Cty. v. Aspinwall
- Board of Comm'rs of Knox Cty. v. Wallace
- Chamberlain v. Ward
- Ward v. Chamberlain
- White v. Vermont & Massachusetts Railroad
- Barber v. Barber Ex Rel. Cronkhite
- Morehouse v. Phelps
- Kendall v. Winsor
- Easton v. Salisbury
- McCARTY v. ROOTS
- Ableman v. Booth
- Rogers v. Law
- Brittan v. Barnaby
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