Term recap
October Term 1907 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1907, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
177
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
27
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down October 21, 1907 and the last on June 1, 1908. The busiest single day was February 24, 1908 with 33 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
October 1907 · 6 decisions
November 1907 · 10 decisions
- Interstate Consolidated Street Railway Co. v. Massachusetts
- Seaboard Air Line Railway v. Seegers
- Chapman v. Bowen
- Leathe v. Thomas
- Illinois Ex Rel. McNichols v. Pease
- Chambers v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
- Taylor v. United States
- Hunter v. City of Pittsburgh
- Kent v. People of Porto Rico
- Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Wright
December 1907 · 23 decisions
- Earle v. Myers
- John T. Shoener, Piff. In Err. v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
- American Tobacco Co. v. Werckmeister
- Webster Coal & Coke Company v. A. J. Cassatt, John B. Thayer, Charles E. Pugh
- Pennsylvania Coal & Coke Co. v. Cassatt
- Cortelyou v. Charles Eneu Johnson & Co.
- Bitterman v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad
- Ozan Lumber Co. v. Union County Nat. Bank of Liberty
- Chunn v. City & Suburban R. Co. of Washington
- United States v. R. P. Andrews & Co.
- Polk v. Mutual Reserve Fund Life Assn. of NY
- Arkansas Southern Railroad v. German National Bank
- Patch v. Wabash Railroad
- Vail v. Arizona
- Bank of Kentucky v. Kentucky
- Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Wharton
- Heath & Milligan Manufacturing Co. v. Worst
- Paraiso v. United States
- Vandalia Railroad v. Indiana Ex Rel. City of South Bend
- Werckmeister v. American Tobacco Co.
- Flemister v. United States
- Water, Light & Gas Co. of Hutchinson v. City of Hutchinson
- The Hamilton
January 1908 · 28 decisions
- Winters v. United States
- The Employers'liability Cases
- Carrington v. United States
- Consolidated Rendering Co. v. Vermont
- New York Ex Rel. Edward & John Burke, Ltd. v. Wells
- Wabash Railroad v. Adelbert College of Western Reserve University
- Winslow v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
- Anheuser-Busch Brewing Assn. v. United States
- Holt v. Murphy
- Yosemite Gold Mining & Milling Co. v. Emerson
- Chin Yow v. United States
- United States v. Miller
- Sullivan v. Texas
- Bluthenthal v. Jones
- Williamson v. United States
- Blacklock v. United States
- Prosser v. Finn
- Re Metropolitan Railway Receivership
- Ex Parte Simon
- Houghton v. Meyer
- I. M. Darnell & Son Co. v. City of Memphis
- Southern Pine Lumber Co. v. Ward
- Calvo v. De Gutierrez
- Braxton County Court v. West Virginia Ex Rel. State Tax Commissioners
- United States v. A. Graf Distilling Co.
- Penn Refining Co. v. Western New York & Pennsylvania Railroad
- Adair v. United States
- Elder v. Wood
February 1908 · 39 decisions
- Missouri Valley Land Co. v. Wiese
- Missouri Valley Land Co. v. Wrich
- Donnell v. Herring-Hall-Marvin Safe Co.
- United Dictionary Co. v. G. & C. Merriam Co.
- Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Co. v. Doughty
- Loewe v. Lawlor
- Crary v. Dye
- Muller v. Oregon
- Atlantic Trust Co. v. Chapman
- White-Smith Music Publishing Co. v. Apollo Co.
- Richard v. City of Mobile
- Phillips v. City of Mobile
- Armstrong, as Liquidator of Boysen & Company, v. Fernandez
- First Nat. Bank of Albuquerque v. Albright
- Cosmopolitan Club v. Virginia
- Starr v. Campbell
- Bien v. Robinson
- Herring-Hall-Marvin Safe Co. v. Hall's Safe Co.
- Dun v. Lumbermen's Credit Assn.
- Drumm-Flato Commission Co. v. Edmisson
- The Troy
- United States v. Sisseton and Wahpeton Bands of Sioux Indians
- United States v. Larkin
- Bassing v. Cady
- Ughbanks v. Armstrong
- Venner v. Great Northern Railway Co.
- Jetton v. University of the South
- Great Northern Railway Co. v. United States
- United States v. Bitty
- Rankin v. City Nat. Bank of Kansas City
- Hairston v. Danville & Western Railway Co.
- Dick v. United States
- Disconto Gesellschaft v. Umbreit
- Notley v. Brown
- Henningsen v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. of Baltimore
- Lewis v. Herrera
- Cleveland Terminal & Valley Railroad Co. v. Cleveland Steamship Co.
- Northern Pacific Railway v. STATE EX REL. CITY OF DULUTH
- Bennett v. Bennett
March 1908 · 17 decisions
- Battle v. United States
- United States v. Thayer
- Wabash Railroad v. Adelbert College of the Western Reserve University
- O'Reilly De Camara v. Brooke
- Smith v. Rainey
- Armour Packing Co. v. United States
- Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway Co. v. United States
- Ex Parte Young
- General Oil Co. v. Crain
- Bosque v. United States
- Hutchins v. Munn
- Asbell v. Kansas
- Hallowell v. United States
- Hunter v. Wood
- Dotson v. Milliken
- Thomas v. Iowa
- Interstate Commerce Commission v. Chicago Great Western Railway Co.
April 1908 · 24 decisions
- Thomas v. Taggart
- Richardson v. Shaw
- Garzot v. De Rubio
- Beadles v. Smyser
- United States v. Cerecedo Hermanos Y Compañia
- United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. United States Ex Rel. Struthers Wells Co.
- McCabe & Steen Construction Co. v. Wilson
- Thompson v. Kentucky
- National Life Insurance Co. of the United States v. National Life Insurance
- Ware & Leland v. Mobile County
- Longyear v. Toolan
- Allemannia Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh v. Firemen's Ins. Co. of Baltimore Ex Rel. Wolfe
- Hudson County Water Co. v. McCarter
- Lipphard v. Humphrey
- Stickney v. Kelsey
- Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad v. City of Vicksburg
- Shawnee Compress Co. v. Anderson
- Ex Parte Nebraska
- In Re Moore
- Liu Hop Fong v. United States
- United States v. Chandler-Dunbar Water Power Co.
- Bogard v. Sweet
- Central R. Co. of NJ v. Jersey City
- Lang v. New Jersey
May 1908 · 20 decisions
- Empire State Cattle Co. v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.
- Scully v. Bird
- Commonwealth of Virginia v. State of West Virginia
- St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co. v. Donohue
- Gazlay v. Williams
- In Re Wood and Henderson
- Farrell v. Lockhart
- City of St. Louis v. United Railways Co.
- Boston & Maine Railroad v. Gokey
- St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Taylor
- Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co. v. Lewisohn
- Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. v. Texas
- Sanderson v. United States
- Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Porter
- Fauntleroy v. Lum
- Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City Railroad v. Mississippi
- Brown v. Fletcher's Estate
- Kealoha v. Castle
- La Bourgogne
- Reuben Quick Bear v. Leupp
June 1908 · 10 decisions
- Municipality of Ponce v. Roman Catholic Apostolic Church in Porto Rico
- Londoner v. City and County of Denver
- Bobbs-Merrill Co. v. Straus
- Continental Paper Bag Co. v. Eastern Paper Bag Co.
- Scribner v. Straus
- Globe Newspaper Co. v. Walker
- Delmar Jockey Club v. Missouri
- Kansas City Northwestern Railroad v. Zimmerman
- Western Loan & Savings Co. v. Butte & Boston Consolidated Mining Co.
- Pierce v. Creecy
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