Term recap
October Term 1866 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1866, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
130
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
19
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down December 17, 1866 and the last on May 18, 1867. The busiest single day was February 18, 1867 with 17 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
December 1866 · 13 decisions
January 1867 · 31 decisions
- Ex Parte Garland
- Davidson v. Lanier
- United States v. Hoffman
- Cummings v. Missouri
- People v. Commissioners
- Rutherford v. Geddes
- Brown v. Bass
- Witherspoon v. Duncan
- Graham v. United States
- The Eddy
- Locke v. New Orleans
- Garrison v. Cass County
- The Springbok
- Dwyer v. Dunbar
- Commissioner of Patents v. Whiteley
- Larned v. Burlington
- Bell v. Railroad Company
- Mitchell v. Burlington
- Brown v. Wiley
- Alviso v. United States
- Barrows v. Kindred
- Railroad Company v. Rock
- Brobst v. Brobst
- Ex Parte Milligan
- Sturdy v. Jackaway
- United States v. Armijo
- Ware v. United States
- Serrano v. United States
- Leftwitch v. Lecanu
- License Tax Cases
- German v. United States
February 1867 · 36 decisions
- Hansbrough v. Peck
- Supervisors v. United States
- Hadden v. Collector
- Mayor v. Sheffield
- Insurance Co. v. Chase
- Nash v. Towne
- Woodworth v. Insurance Co.
- Evans v. Patterson
- United States v. Quimby
- Semple v. Hagar
- The Nassau
- Stanley v. Colt
- Goodrich v. The City
- Insurance Co. v. Ritchie
- The Moses Taylor
- Bates v. Brown
- United States v. MacDonald
- United States v. Hathaway
- United States v. Weed
- Sparrow v. Strong
- Von Hoffman v. City of Quincy
- Thompson v. Bowie
- Robbins v. Chicago City
- City of Galena v. Amy
- Supervisors v. Schenck
- Parmelee v. Simpson
- Townsend v. Greeley
- Bradley v. The People
- Kelly v. Crawford
- Shelton v. The Collector
- Barton v. Forsyth
- Seymour v. Freer
- Gilman v. Lockwood
- Purcell v. Miner
- Jones v. La Vallette
- Packet Co. v. Sickles
April 1867 · 25 decisions
- Croxall v. Shererd
- Mississippi v. Johnson
- The Peterhoff
- Saulet v. Shepherd
- Pearson v. Duane
- The Gray Jacket
- Stearns v. The United States
- Railroad Co. v. Barron
- The William Bagaley
- Nichols v. Levy
- Watson v. Sutherland
- Green v. Van Buskirk
- Seaver v. Bigelows
- Myers v. Fenn
- The Hine v. Trevor
- Bentley v. Coyne
- Francis v. United States
- Purcell v. Miner
- Pervear v. Commonwealth
- Campbell v. Kenosha
- City of Philadelphia v. the Collector
- O'Neal v. Kirkpatrick
- Withenbury v. United States
- The Sea Lion
- Ryan v. Thomas
May 1867 · 25 decisions
- Townsend v. Burbank
- Ex Parte the Milwaukee Railroad Company
- United States v. Commissioner
- De Haro v. United States
- Ex Parte the Milwaukee Railroad Co.
- The Pearl
- The Jenny
- The Milwaukee Railroad Co. v. Soutter and Knapp
- Wolcott v. Des Moines Co.
- United States v. Pico
- De Groot v. United States
- Thompson v. Riggs
- The Sir William Peel
- The New York Indians
- The Kansas Indians
- The Dashing Wave
- The Hampton
- The Gray Jacket
- The Teresita
- United States v. Repentigny
- The Volant
- Deery v. Cray
- Ewing v. City of St. Louis
- The Science
- The Bird of Paradise
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