Term recap
October Term 1872 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1872, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
186
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
23
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down November 11, 1872 and the last on October 1, 1873. The busiest single day was March 31, 1873 with 22 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
November 1872 · 21 decisions
- United States v. Powell
- Cross v. United States
- Collins v. Riggs
- Dirst v. Morris
- Fowler v. Rapley
- Turner v. Smith
- Philpot v. Gruninger
- United States v. Hunt
- Gregg v. Moss
- Salomons v. Graham
- Morgan v. United States
- Erskine v. Hohnbach
- Gorham Co. v. White
- Phoenix Ins. Co. v. Hamilton
- Kearney v. Denn
- Leary v. United States
- Gould v. Rees
- United States v. Justice
- Oelrichs v. Spain
- Propeller Company v. United States
- Delmas v. Insurance Co.
December 1872 · 20 decisions
- Ex Parte: In the Matter of the United States
- Maddox v. United States
- Hall v. Jordan
- Erskine v. Van Arsdale
- Canal Co. v. Hill
- Pennywit v. Eaton
- Bouldin v. Alexander
- Ex Parte Warmouth
- Cheney v. Van Arsdale
- Prout v. Roby
- Hedrick v. Hughes
- Reybold v. United States
- Allen v. Massey
- The Key City
- Pelham v. Way
- Gray v. Darlington
- James v. Milwaukee
- Frow v. De La Vega
- United States v. Cook
- United States v. Singer
January 1873 · 32 decisions
- Allen v. United States
- United States v. Kelly
- Smoot's Case
- United States v. Thomas
- Tarver v. Keach
- Davenport City v. Dows
- Kimball v. West
- Miller v. State
- Dexter v. Hall
- Garnharts v. United States
- Morgan's Assignees v. Shinn
- Hutchings v. Low
- Pierce v. Carskadon
- Voorhees v. Bonesteel
- The John Griffin
- Lynde v. the County
- Montgomery v. United States
- United States v. Bennett
- Railroad Co. v. Gladmon
- Portland Co. v. United States
- Bank v. Kennedy
- Marqueze v. Bloom
- Dickinson v. The Planters' Bank
- Pennywit v. Eaton
- Commercial Bank v. Rochester
- Marshall v. Vicksburg
- Buchanan v. Smith
- Railroad v. Johnson
- Harwood v. Railroad Co.
- Pickersgill v. Lahens
- Taylor v. Taintor
- Railroads v. Richmond
February 1873 · 11 decisions
March 1873 · 53 decisions
- Brown v. Kennedy
- St. Joseph Township v. Rogers
- Tomlinson v. Branch
- Haffin v. Mason
- Humphrey v. Pegues
- City of Charleston v. Branch
- Railroad Co. v. Johnson
- Tyler v. Magwire
- Specht v. Howard
- Tiffany v. Lucas
- McNitt v. Turner
- Cofield v. McClelland
- Carpenter v. Longan
- Barnes v. the Railroads
- Reading Railroad Company v. Pennsylvania
- Mitchell v. Hawley
- Moses v. The Mayor
- Branson v. Wirth
- Smith v. McCool
- Graham v. Norton
- Olcott v. Bynum
- Grand Chute v. Winegar
- Sweeny v. United States
- Grand Chute v. Winegar
- State Tax on Railway Gross Receipts. Reading Railroad Company v. Pennsylvania
- Peabody, Collector v. Stark
- Kenicott v. Supervisors
- Huntington v. Texas
- Mahan v. United States
- Smith v. Adsit
- Duncan v. Jaudon
- Slawson v. United States
- Gunn v. Barry
- Railroad Co. v. County of Otoe
- Goddard v. Foster
- Walker v. Henshaw
- Olcott v. Supervisors
- Steamboat Co. v. Chase
- Railway Co. v. Prescott
- Tomlinson v. Jessup
- Cordova v. Hood
- Flanders v. Tweed
- Ribon v. Railroad Companies
- Burke v. Smith
- Walker v. Whitehead
- City of Richmond v. Smith
- New Orleans v. Gaines
- The Cayuga
- Insurance Co. v. Piaggio
- Collector v. Doswell & Co.
- Hanrick v. Boston
- Railroad Company v. Hanning
- Parrot v. Wells, Fargo & Co.
April 1873 · 38 decisions
- Hannewinkle v. Georgetown
- Crapo v. Kelly
- Carlisle v. United States
- Butchers' Benevolent Ass'n v. Crescent City Live-Stock Landing & Slaughter-House Co.
- United States v. Huckabee
- Bradwell v. State
- Lapeyre v. United States
- Davis v. Gray
- United States v. Railroad Co.
- Tweed's Case
- Marin v. Lalley
- Deitsch v. Wiggins
- The Nuestra Senora De Regla
- Partridge v. The Insurance Company
- Hanauer v. Woodruff
- Hume v. Beale's
- Walbrun v. Babbitt
- Adger v. Alston
- Marshall v. Knox
- Mead v. Thompson
- The Commerce
- Ripley v. Insurance Co.
- Averill v. Smith
- Koontz v. Northern Bank
- Osborne v. Mobile
- Oulton v. Savings Institution
- Riggin v. Magwire
- Bailey v. Railroad Co.
- Cammack v. Lewis
- Homestead Company v. Valley Railroad
- Planters' Bank v. Union Bank
- Water Co. v. Ware
- Burrows v. The Marshal
- Insurance Company v. Lyman
- Hampton v. Rouse
- The Lucille
- Life Insurance v. Terry
- Crilley v. Burrows
May 1873 · 10 decisions
October 1873 · 1 decision
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