Term recap
October Term 1861 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1861, 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
14
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down December 18, 1861 and the last on March 24, 1862. The busiest single day was March 24, 1862 with 12 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
December 1861 · 6 decisions
January 1862 · 18 decisions
- Bacon v. Hart
- Weightman v. Corporation of Washington
- Rogers v. Law
- Attorney General v. Federal Street Meeting-House
- Wabash & Erie Canal v. Beers
- Hager v. Thomson
- Hecker v. Fowler
- Dermott v. Wallach
- Laflin v. Herrington
- Singleton v. Touchard
- Hoyt v. Shelden, Ex'r of Thompson, and the Long Island Railroad Company
- O'Brien v. Smith
- Farni v. Tesson
- Silliman v. Hudson River Bridge Co.
- Clark v. Hackett
- The Barque Island City— Pierce, Cromwell, Libellants
- Gregg v. Tesson
- United States vs. Knight’s Adm’r
February 1862 · 15 decisions
- Glasgow v. Hortiz
- The Propeller Commerce
- Flanigan v. Turner
- United States v. Babbit
- Nelson v. Woodruff
- Carondelet v. Saint Louis
- Ex Parte Gordon
- O'Brien v. Perry
- Johnston v. Jones
- Ohio & Mississippi Railroad v. Wheeler
- Woods v. Lawrence County
- The Steamer New Philadelphia
- The Brig Collenberg
- Crews v. Burcham
- Cleveland v. Chamberlain
March 1862 · 34 decisions
- Sherman v. Smith
- Pindell v. Mullikin
- Verden v. Coleman
- Hodge v. Combs
- Bates v. Illinois Central Railroad
- Conway v. Taylor's
- Inbusch v. Farwell
- Law v. Cross
- The Steamer St. Lawrence
- United States v. Knight's Administrator
- Franklin Branch Bank v. Ohio
- Jefferson Branch Bank v. Skelly
- Vance v. Campbell
- Haussknecht v. Claypool
- The Water Witch— Clifton, Sheldon, Libellant
- Bryan v. United States
- Magwire v. Tyler
- United States v. John Wilson
- The United States v. Vallejo
- United States v. Neleigh
- Rice v. Railroad Co.
- Washington and Turner v. Ogden
- United States v. Vallejo
- Foster v. Goddard
- White's Administrator v. United States
- United States v. Jackalow
- Leonard v. Davis
- McCool v. Smith
- Pratt v. Fitzhugh
- Moffitt v. Garr
- Harkness v. Underhill
- Clagett v. Kilbourne
- Farney v. Towle
- The Ship Marcellus— Baxter, Camp, Libellant
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