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Term recap

October Term 1863 in review

Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1863, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.

81
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
18
Decision days

The term's first merits decision came down December 1, 1863 and the last on April 18, 1864. The busiest single day was April 18, 1864 with 15 decisions.

Merits decisions, month by month


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Holding lines are from the syllabi prepared by the Reporter of Decisions and are not part of the Court's opinions. Case data from supremecourt.gov and CourtListener (Free Law Project). SCOTUS Alerts is an independent project, not affiliated with the U.S. Supreme Court.