Term recap
October Term 1868 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1868, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
96
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
14
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down January 11, 1869 and the last on April 18, 1869. The busiest single day was February 18, 1869 with 14 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
January 1869 · 18 decisions
- Alviso v. United States
- Ex Parte Bradley
- Drury v. Cross
- Aurora City v. West
- Burbank v. Bigelow
- Girard v. Philadelphia
- The Banks v. the Mayor
- Bank v. Supervisors
- Gaines v. Thompson
- Moore v. Marsh
- Insurance Co. v. Tweed
- United States v. Shoemaker
- The Grapeshot
- Benbow v. Iowa City
- The China
- Railroad Co. v. Schurmeir
- Kellogg v. United States
- The Alicia
February 1869 · 24 decisions
- Brown v. Pierce
- Litchfield v. Railroad Co.
- Nichols v. United States
- Laber v. Cooper
- Silver v. Ladd
- Bronson v. Rodes
- The Siren
- The Georgia
- Pacific Insurance v. Soule
- Railroad Co. v. Howard
- Lane County v. Oregon
- Tyler v. Boston
- Railroad Co. v. Harris
- Thomson v. Dean
- The Grace Girdler
- Edmonson v. Bloomshire
- Green v. Van Buskirk
- Lincoln v. Claflin
- Cowles v. Mercer County
- Kendall v. United States
- Railroad Co. v. Jackson
- Palmer v. Donner
- The Nichols
- Durant v. Essex Co.
March 1869 · 24 decisions
- Smith v. Washington Gas Light Co.
- Boyd v. Moses
- Dorsheimer v. United States
- Seymour v. Freer
- Grant v. United States
- Mead v. Ballard
- The Floyd Acceptances
- The Diana
- Sheets v. Selden
- Agawam Co. v. Jordan
- Supervisors v. Rogers
- Butler v. Horwitz
- Lee County v. Rogers
- Roland v. United States
- Beloit v. Morgan
- Jacobs v. Baker
- Morgan v. Beloit, City and Town
- Whitely v. Swayne
- Stansbury v. United States
- Confiscation Cases
- Morgan v. Town Clerk
- Whiteley v. Kirby
- White's Bank v. Smith
- Ward v. Smith
April 1869 · 30 decisions
- The Belfast
- Gibson v. Chouteau
- Riddlesbarger v. Hartford Insurance
- United States v. Rosenburgh
- Generes v. Bonnemer
- Payne v. Hook
- Ex Parte McCardle
- Texas v. White
- United States v. Adams
- Coppell v. Hall
- United States v. Mowry
- United States v. Morgan
- Reeside v. United States
- James v. Bank
- Ewing v. Howard
- Railroad Co. v. Bradleys
- Cocks v. Izard
- Kelly v. Owen
- Blitz v. Brown
- United States v. Gilmore
- Garrison v. United States
- United States v. Kirby
- Randall v. Brigham
- Morris and Johnson v. United States
- Finley v. Isett
- Mulligan v. Corbins
- Maguire v. Tyler
- Washington County v. Durant
- Austin v. the Aldermen
- Twitchell v. Commonwealth
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