Term recap
October Term 1869 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1869, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
185
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
27
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down October 18, 1869 and the last on April 30, 1870. The busiest single day was April 30, 1870 with 24 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
October 1869 · 5 decisions
November 1869 · 32 decisions
- Clark v. Reyburn
- William R. Dutton v. John G. Plairet
- The Camanche
- Drakely v. Gregg
- Propeller Mohawk
- Young v. Martin
- Avendano v. Gay
- Patterson v. De La Ronde
- Thorington v. Smith
- Furman v. Nichol
- Nailor v. Williams
- The Lucy
- The Carroll
- United States v. Gilmore
- Hinson v. Lott
- Wood-Paper Company v. Heft
- Woodruff v. Parham
- Mattingly v. Nye
- Paul v. Virginia
- The Eagle
- Mills v. Smith
- Hudson Canal Co. v. Pennsylvania Coal Co.
- Dean v. Younell's Administrator
- Texas v. Hardenberg
- Bronson v. Kimpton
- Chicopee Bank v. Philadelphia Bank
- United States v. Speed
- Bennet v. Fowler
- Blanchard v. Putnam
- Insurance Co. v. Mosley
- Carpenter v. Dexter
- United States v. Lane
December 1869 · 18 decisions
- Rubber Co. v. Goodyear
- Parish v. United States
- Allen v. Killinger
- Express Co. v. Kountze Brothers
- People's Railroad v. Memphis Railroad
- Gibbons v. United States
- Veazie Bank v. Fenno
- Bardley v. Rhines' Administrators
- The Lady Franklin
- The Baltimore
- Kempner v. Churchill
- Kennedy v. Gibson
- Mandelbaum v. The People
- Aldrich v. Aetna Co.
- Morris's Cotton
- Home of the Friendless v. Rouse
- Washington University v. Rouse
- Butz v. City of Muscatine
January 1870 · 12 decisions
February 1870 · 28 decisions
- Wilkins v. Ellett
- United States v. Keehler
- Haver v. Yaker
- Gut v. State
- United States v. Adams
- Secretary v. McGarrahan
- Public Schools v. Walker
- Rubber Co. v. Goodyear
- Worthy v. Commissioners
- The Schools v. Risley
- The Potomac
- Railroad Company v. Fremont County
- Broderick's v. Magraw
- Hepburn v. Griswold
- Pelham v. Rose
- The Johnson
- Smith v. Morse
- Neale v. Neales
- Cheever v. Wilson
- Railroad Co. v. Smith
- Chicago v. Sheldon
- Norris v. Jackson
- United States v. Rocha
- United States v. Dewitt
- Ex Parte Zellner
- United States v. Anderson
- Steamboat Burns
- Ingle v. Jones
March 1870 · 31 decisions
- Public Schools v. Walker
- Riley v. Welles
- United States v. Hosmer
- Linthicum v. Ray
- United States v. Merrill
- The Grapeshot
- The Nonesuch
- Justices v. Murray
- The Harriman
- Star of Hope
- Barney v. Schmeider
- In the Matters of Howard
- Willard v. Presbury
- United States v. Grossmayer
- Reilly v. Golding
- Mephams v. Biessel
- Bonner v. United States
- Litchfield v. The Register and Receiver
- Flanders v. Tweed
- Frisbie v. Whitney
- Meade v. United States
- Bennett v. Hunter
- Merryman v. Bourne
- Flanders v. Tweed
- Boylan v. United States
- The Fairbanks
- Mayor v. Lord
- National Bank v. Commonwealth
- Lobrano v. Nelligan
- Bigelow v. Forrest
- The Guy
April 1870 · 59 decisions
- Weed v. Crane
- Assessors v. Osbornes
- The Keokuk
- City of Paris
- Bushnell v. Kennedy
- The Northern Belle
- The Portsmouth
- The Gray Eagle
- Jones v. Bolles
- Clark v. Bousfield
- Copelin v. Insurance Co.
- Lionberger v. Rouse
- Chicago v. Greer
- Gleason v. Florida
- Burnett v. Caldwell
- Hoe v. Wilson
- The Quickstep
- Noonan v. Bradley
- Michigan Bank v. Eldred
- City v. Lamson
- Bank of Washington v. Nock
- McKee v. Rains
- The Suffolk County
- Lynch v. Bernal
- Supervisors v. Durant
- United States v. Ayres
- Latham's and Deming's Appeals
- Bourne v. Goodyear
- Wise v. Allis
- Stimpson v. Woodman
- Pierce v. Cox
- Mahoney v. United States
- The Maggie Hammond
- The Alleghany
- The Syracuse
- Green v. United States
- Downham v. Alexandria
- Carpenter v. Williams
- Watkins v. United States
- Thomson v. Pacific Railroad
- Butler v. Maples
- Little v. Herndon
- Bates v. Equitable Insurance
- Irvine v. Irvine
- The Corsica
- Insurance Company v. Weide
- The Davis
- The Washington and the Gregory
- Herndon v. Howard
- Bischoff v. Wethered
- Ex Parte Morris and Johnson
- United States v. Padelford
- The Blackwall
- Walker v. Walker's
- Supervisors v. Durant
- Wiggins v. Burkham
- The Protector
- United States v. Adams
- Isaac Underhill v. John M. Herndon
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