Term recap
October Term 1864 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1864, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
59
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
13
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down December 28, 1864 and the last on March 18, 1865. The busiest single day was March 10, 1865 with 11 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
December 1864 · 1 decision
January 1865 · 19 decisions
- McGuire v. Commonwealth
- Hawthorne v. Calef
- Lowber v. Bangs
- Dermott v. Jones
- Miles v. Caldwell
- Heckers v. Fowler
- United States v. Stone
- Drury v. Foster
- Gregg v. Forsyth
- Campbell v. Read
- Florentine v. Barton
- Marine Bank v. Fulton Bank
- The Circassian
- Bank Tax Case
- Smith v. United States
- Ransom v. Williams
- Steamship Co. v. Joliffe
- Read v. Bowman
- Case v. Brown
February 1865 · 25 decisions
- Day v. Gallup
- Pico v. United States
- Tobey v. Leonards
- United States v. Billing
- The Andromeda
- Levy Court v. Coroner
- Hogan v. Page
- Higueras v. United States
- Banks v. Ogden
- Badger v. Badger
- Sheets v. Selden's Lessee
- Chittenden v. Brewster
- Miller v. Sherry
- Kutter v. Smith
- The Ann Caroline
- Murray v. Lardner
- Milwaukie and Minnesota Railroad Company and Fleming v. Soutter, Survivor
- The Morning Light
- United States v. Pacheco
- Lee v. Dodge
- Tool Co. v. Norris
- Ex Parte Dugan
- The Venice
- Harvey v. Tyler
- Albany Bridge Case
March 1865 · 14 decisions
- Brobst v. Brobst
- Humiston v. Stainthorp
- Freeborn v. Smith
- The Slavers. (Sarah.)
- The Slavers. (Weathergage.)
- The Slavers. (Reindeer.)
- Mrs. Alexander's Cotton
- Milwaukie & Minnesota Railroad v. Soutter
- Gordon v. United States
- Minnesota Co. v. St. Paul Co.
- Ex Parte Fleming
- The Slavers.(kate.)
- The Baigorry
- The Sutter Case
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