Term recap
October Term 1865 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1865, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
76
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
15
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down December 18, 1865 and the last on April 18, 1866. The busiest single day was April 18, 1866 with 10 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
December 1865 · 2 decisions
January 1866 · 25 decisions
- The Kimball
- The Josephine
- The Thompson
- The Admiral
- United States v. De Haro Mahoney v. United States
- Sheboygan Co. v. Parker
- Sparrow v. Strong
- Blossom v. Railroad Co.
- Territory v. Lockwood
- Havemeyer v. Iowa County
- Minnesota Co. v. National Co.
- Comstock v. Crawford
- Blanchard v. Brown
- The Suffolk Company v. Hayden
- Cheang-Kee v. United States
- Rogers v. Keokuk
- The Louisiana
- The Cornelius
- Beard v. Federy
- Bollinger's Champagne
- The Mohawk
- The Reform
- Rogers v. Burlington
- United States v. Circuit Judges
- Gilman v. Philadelphia
February 1866 · 17 decisions
- Cincinnati City v. Morgan
- McAndrews v. Thatcher
- Secrist v. Green
- Dehon v. Bernal
- Fennerstein's Champagne
- The Plymouth
- Lovejoy v. Murray
- The Binghamton Bridge
- Cliquot's Champagne
- The Herald
- Castro v. United States
- McGuire v. Commonwealth
- The Ottawa
- Barrel v. Transportation Co.
- Walker v. Transportation Co.
- The Douro
- York Company v. Central Railroad
March 1866 · 21 decisions
- Lewis v. Campau
- The Sally Magee
- Bank for Savings v. Collector
- The Bermuda
- The Convoy's Wheat
- Thomson v. Lee County
- The Cheshire
- Blackburn v. Crawfords
- Turnpike Company v. The State
- United States v. Holliday
- The Granite State
- United States v. Gomez
- United States v. Scott
- United States v. Murphy
- Daniels v. Railroad Co.
- The Hart
- United States v. Fisk
- Peralta v. United States
- Van Allen v. Assessors
- United States v. Cutting
- Green v. Van Buskerk
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