Term recap
October Term 1870 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1870, 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
21
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down November 14, 1870 and the last on May 18, 1871. The busiest single day was May 18, 1871 with 21 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
November 1870 · 11 decisions
December 1870 · 18 decisions
- The Farragut
- The Kalurama
- United States v. Vigil
- Hanrick v. Neely
- Railroad Co. v. Trimble
- Masterson v. Herndon
- United States v. Hodson
- Feild v. Farrington
- Dean v. Nelson
- Cooper v. Reynolds
- Jones v. Andrews
- BUTCHERS'BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION v. Crescent City Live-Stock Landing and Slaughter-House Co.
- Downham v. Alexandria Council
- Smith v. Stevens
- The Mabey
- Marble Co. v. Ripley
- The Clinton Bridge
- Kimball v. the Collector
January 1871 · 23 decisions
- Mowry v. Whitney
- Yates v. Milwaukee
- Campbell v. Wilcox
- The Cotton Plant
- Ex Parte Graham
- Ducat v. Chicago
- Coddington v. Richardson
- Corbett v. Nutt
- Seymour v. Osborne
- Texas v. Chiles
- Tappan v. Beardsley
- Hannauer v. Woodruff
- Edmondson v. Bloomshire
- Barnard v. Kellogg
- Pennsylvania v. Quicksilver Company
- In Re Paschal
- The Daniel Ball
- Railroad Co. v. McClure
- Messenger v. Mason
- Bethell v. Demaret
- Brobst v. Brock
- Merchants' Bank v. State Bank
- The Protector
February 1871 · 16 decisions
- Marsh v. Fulton County
- Stovall v. Banks
- Stagg v. Insurance Company
- May v. Le Claire
- Liverpool Insurance v. Massachusetts
- The Maria Martin
- Parmelee v. Lawrence
- Ward v. United States
- Miller v. McKenzie
- Steinbach v. Stewart
- Sturges v. Collector
- Dows v. City of Chicago
- Morgan v. Thornhill
- The Mabey
- Baltimore v. Baltimore Railroad
- Miller v. The State
March 1871 · 17 decisions
- Bank v. Carrollton Railroad
- Garnett v. United States
- Ward v. Maryland
- Virginia v. West Virginia
- Insurance Co. v. Francis
- Same Case
- Leon v. Galceran
- McVeigh v. United States
- Levy v. Stewart
- Generes v. Campbell
- Insurance Company v. The Treasurer
- The Fannie
- Bigler v. Waller
- Missouri v. Kentucky
- Amy v. The Supervisors
- Smith v. Sac County
- Insurance Co. v. Dunham
April 1871 · 24 decisions
- Collector v. Hubbard
- United States v. Tynen
- Bank v. Lanier
- Tyler v. Defrees
- New Albany v. Burke
- Transportation Company v. Downer
- French v. Shoemaker
- Stewart v. Kahn
- Rankin v. State
- The Distilled Spirits
- Noonan v. Bradley
- United States v. Wright
- Meader v. Norton
- Moncure v. Zunts
- Mann v. Rock Island Bank
- The Eutaw
- Coal Co. v. Blatchford
- Baker v. Morton
- Collector v. Day
- Railroad Co. v. Dubois
- Miller v. United States
- The Sapphire
- Case v. Terrell
- United States v. O'Keefe
May 1871 · 21 decisions
- Henderson's Tobacco
- Dewing v. Sears
- The Montello
- Forsyth v. Woods
- The Spray
- Railroad Company v. Harris
- Insurance Co. v. Weide
- Eureka Company v. Bailey Company
- St. Louis v. Ferry Co.
- Fowler v. Rathbones
- The Cherokee Tobacco
- Halliday v. Hamilton
- Ludlow v. Ramsey
- Bank of Leavenworth v. Hunt
- United States v. Lynde
- Dunphy v. Kleinsmith and Duer
- Reed v. United States
- United States v. Howell
- Knox v. Lee
- Galveston Railroad v. Cowdrey
- United States v. Wiley
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