Term recap
October Term 1902 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1902, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
214
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
27
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down October 20, 1902 and the last on June 1, 1903. The busiest single day was February 23, 1903 with 34 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
October 1902 · 3 decisions
November 1902 · 10 decisions
December 1902 · 25 decisions
- Reid v. Jones
- United States v. Moseley
- Reid v. Colorado
- Grin v. Shine
- Equitable Life Assurance Society v. Brown
- MacFarland v. Brown
- MacFarland v. Byrnes
- Cherokee Nation v. Hitchcock
- Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland v. United States
- Security Trust Co. v. Black River National Bank
- Security Trust Co. v. Dent
- Northern Central Railway Co. v. Maryland
- Metcalf v. Barker
- Raub v. Carpenter
- Evans v. Nellis
- Pickens v. Roy
- Lawder v. Stone
- Home for Incurables v. City of New York
- Mencke v. Cargo of Java Sugar
- Knights Templars' & Masons' Life Indemnity Co. v. Jarman
- Iowa Life Insurance v. Lewis
- Elliott v. Toeppner
- Pam-To-Pee v. United States
- Layton v. Missouri
- Burt v. Union Central Life Insurance
January 1903 · 39 decisions
- Corbus v. Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Co.
- Page v. Edmunds
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Borough of New Hope
- Diamond Glue Co. v. United States Glue Co.
- Manley v. Park
- Cary Manufacturing Co. v. Acme Flexible Clasp Co.
- Mexican Central Railway Co. v. Eckman
- Stewart v. Washington & Alaska Steamship Co.
- Pacific Steam Whaling Co. v. United States
- United States v. Sampson
- Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock
- Pacific Coast Steamship Co. v. United States
- Downs v. United States
- Worden v. California Fig Syrup Co.
- Otis v. Parker
- Mobile Transportation Co. v. Mobile
- Chadwick v. Kelley
- Telluride Power Transmission Co. v. Rio Grande Western Railway Co.
- Young Women's Christian Home v. French
- Oshkosh Waterworks Co. v. Oshkosh
- Hartford Fire Insurance v. Wilson
- Johnson v. New York Life Insurance
- Ayres v. Polsdorfer
- Hanley v. Kansas City Southern Railway Co.
- Caldwell v. North Carolina
- Hardin v. Shedd
- Billings v. Illinois
- Weber v. Rogan
- Andrews v. Andrews
- American Colortype Co. v. Continental Colortype Co.
- Hale v. Allinson
- Earle v. Carson
- Kelley v. Rhoads
- Diamond Match Co. v. Ontonagon
- ECKINGTON AND SOLDIERS' HOME RAILWAY CO. v. McDEVITT
- Blackstone v. Miller
- Nelson v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.
- Beals v. Cone
- Smythe v. United States
February 1903 · 38 decisions
- Prout v. Starr
- Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co.
- Easton v. Iowa
- Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. Hillmon
- Boston & Montana Consolidated Copper & Silver Mining Co. v. Montana Ore Purchasing Co.
- Rankin v. Chase National Bank
- Mutual Life Insurance v. McGrew
- Bigby v. United States
- Williams v. Parker
- Home Life Insurance v. Fisher
- Winslow v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
- Commercial Publishing Co. v. Beckwith
- Calumet Grain & Elevator Co. v. Chicago
- Cummings v. Chicago
- Reetz v. Michigan
- Leach v. Burr
- Hooker v. Los Angeles
- Schaefer v. Werling
- Kidd v. Alabama
- Fourth National Bank v. Albaugh
- Gutierres v. Albuquerque Land & Irrigation Co.
- Indiana Manufacturing Co. v. Koehne
- Lottery Case
- Tarrance v. Florida
- United States v. Rickert
- The Mangrove Prize Money
- United States v. Barringer
- The Infanta Maria Teresa
- Waggoner v. Flack
- United States v. Lynah
- Hyatt v. People Ex Rel. Corkran
- Clarke v. Larremore
- Francis v. United States
- Jaquith v. Rowley
- American Ice Co. v. Eastern Trust & Banking Co.
- Helwig v. United States
- Chicago Theological Seminary v. Illinois
- The Manila Prize Cases
March 1903 · 18 decisions
- San José Land & Water Co. v. San José Ranch Co.
- The Roanoke
- Pullman Co. v. Adams
- United States v. Nix
- Davis & Farnum Manufacturing Co. v. Los Angeles
- The Osceola
- Missouri Pacific Railway Co. v. United States
- National Bank & Loan Co. v. Petrie
- Brownfield v. South Carolina
- The Conemaugh
- Kennedy Mining & Milling Co. v. Argonaut Mining Co.
- Pardee v. Aldridge
- Nashua Savings Bank v. Anglo-American Land, Mortgage & Agency Co.
- De Cambra v. Rogers
- Kokomo Fence MacHine Co. v. Kitselman
- Eastern Building and Loan Assn. v. Williamson
- Hennessy v. Richardson Drug Co.
- Knoxville Water Co. v. Knoxville
April 1903 · 39 decisions
- Zane v. Hamilton County
- Detroit, Fort Wayne & Belle Isle Railway v. Osborn
- Sexton v. California
- Kirwan v. Murphy
- Potter v. Hall
- The Japanese Immigrant Case
- Foster v. Pryor
- Rankin v. Fidelity Insurance, Trust & Safe Deposit Co.
- Finney v. Guy
- Brill v. Peckham Motor Truck & Wheel Co.
- Farmers' & Merchants' Insurance v. Dobney
- Southern Pacific Railroad v. United States
- Bell v. Commonwealth Title Insurance and Trust Company
- San Diego Land & Town Co. v. Jasper
- Glidden v. Harrington
- Oregon & California Railroad v. United States
- Thayer v. Spratt
- Tennessee v. Condon
- Fidelity & Deposit Co. v. L. Bucki & Son Lumber Co.
- Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Carlin
- Oregon & California Railroad v. United States
- McClung v. Penny
- Sena v. United States
- Winebrenner v. Forney
- The Paquete Habana
- Shurtleff v. United States
- United States v. Mission Rock Co.
- Mexican Central Railway Co. v. Duthie
- Union & Planters' Bank v. Memphis
- Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Behymer
- In Re Key
- Wiser v. Lawler
- Chattanooga National Building & Loan Ass'n v. Denson
- Sawyer v. Piper
- Gordon v. Randle
- Onondaga Nation v. Thacher
- United States v. Sweet
- Giles v. Harris
- Jaquith v. Alden
May 1903 · 18 decisions
- Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. Townsend
- Oregon & California Railroad v. United States
- James v. Bowman
- Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Watson
- Kean v. Calumet Canal & Improvement Co.
- Interstate Commerce Commission v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad
- Cosmos Exploration Co. v. Gray Eagle Oil Co.
- Southern Railway Co. v. Allison
- Conley v. Mathieson Alkali Works
- Wilkes County v. Coler
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Missouri Ex Rel. Gottlieb
- Swan & Finch Co. v. United States
- Colombia v. Cauca Co.
- Mutual Reserve Fund Life Assn. v. Phelps
- Randolph v. Scruggs
- Montgomery v. Portland
- United States Ex Rel. Riverside Oil Co. v. Hitchcock
- In Re Watts and Sachs
June 1903 · 24 decisions
- United States v. Michigan
- Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Co. v. Philadelphia
- Bockfinger v. Foster
- Pacific Land and Improvement Company v. Elwood Oil Company
- Hawaii v. Mankichi
- Lockwood v. Exchange Bank
- Snyder v. Bettman
- Globe Refining Co. v. Landa Cotton Oil Co.
- Dunbar v. Dunbar
- Queenan v. Oklahoma
- Geer v. Mathieson Alkali Works
- Stanly County v. Coler
- Buchanan v. Patterson
- Mifflin v. Dutton
- Mifflin v. R. H. White Co.
- Blackfeather v. United States
- Patterson v. Bark Eudora
- Johanson v. Washington
- Mariano F. Sena v. United States
- O'NEAL v. United States
- Tubman v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
- Tennessee v. Virginia
- Hutchinson v. Otis
- Wright v. Henkel
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