Term recap
October Term 1927 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1927, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
171
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
23
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down October 10, 1927 and the last on June 9, 1928. The busiest single day was November 21, 1927 with 31 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
October 1927 · 6 decisions
November 1927 · 32 decisions
- Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. Goodman
- Fairmont Creamery Co. v. Minnesota
- Gong Lum v. Rice
- Compañia General De Tabacos De Filipinas v. Collector of Internal Revenue
- Wickwire v. Reinecke
- Segurola v. United States
- Simmons v. Swan
- Mercantile Trust Co. v. Wilmot Road District
- Leach & Co. v. Peirson
- Millsaps College v. City of Jackson
- Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Moser
- Blodgett v. Holden
- United States v. Berkeness
- St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad v. Spiller
- Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Wells-Dickey Trust Co.
- City of Hammond v. Schappi Bus Line, Inc.
- City of Hammond v. Farina Bus Line & Transportation Co.
- Mason v. Routzahn
- News Syndicate Co. v. New York Central Railroad
- Atwater & Co. v. United States
- Marron v. United States
- Steele v. Drummond
- Washington Ex Rel. Stimson Lumber Co. v. Kuykendall
- Mellon v. O'NEIL
- Willcuts v. Milton Dairy Co.
- Blair v. Oesterlein MacHine Co.
- Tucker v. Alexander
- Heiner v. Colonial Trust Co.
- Kansas City Southern Railway Co. v. Ellzey
- Lewellyn v. Electric Reduction Co.
- Equitable Trust Co. v. Rochling
- Latzko v. Equitable Trust Co.
December 1927 · 3 decisions
January 1928 · 21 decisions
- Gambino v. United States
- Temco Electric Motor Co. v. Apco Manufacturing Co.
- Richmond Screw Anchor Co. v. United States
- United States v. Murray
- Equitable Trust Co. of NY v. First Nat. Bank of Trinidad
- Barber Asphalt Paying Co. v. Standard Asphalt & Rubber Co.
- The Steel Trader
- Hopkins v. Southern California Telephone Co.
- Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. United States
- Emergency Fleet Corp. v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
- Missouri Pacific Railroad v. Aeby
- N. & G. Taylor Co. v. Anderson
- Aetna Insurance v. Hyde
- Roche v. McDonald
- Gulf, Mobile & Northern Railroad v. Wells
- Mellon v. Arkansas Land & Lumber Co.
- Jackson v. S. S. "Archimedes"
- Ingram-Day Lumber Co. v. McLouth
- Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad v. Rellstab
- Finance & Guaranty Co. v. Oppenhimer
- In Re Gilbert
February 1928 · 26 decisions
- Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance v. Wisconsin
- Wuchter v. Pizzutti
- Linstead v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.
- Harkin v. Brundage
- Longest v. Langford
- Liberty Warehouse Co. v. Burley Tobacco Growers' Co-Operative Marketing Assn.
- Denney v. Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co.
- Brimstone Railroad & Canal Co. v. United States
- Gulf Fisheries Co. v. MacInerney
- Richardson MacHinery Co. v. Scott
- Brown v. United States
- Kornhauser v. United States
- Bountiful Brick Co. v. Giles
- United States v. Magnolia Petroleum Co.
- Toledo, St. Louis & Western Railroad v. Allen
- Mississippi Ex Rel. Robertson v. Miller
- T. Smith & Son, Inc. v. Taylor
- Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad v. Town of Morristown
- United States Shipping Bd. Emergency Fleet Corporation v. Rosenberg Brothers & Co.
- Commercial Credit Co. v. United States
- Hellmich v. Hellman
- People of Sioux County v. National Surety Co.
- Interstate Busses Corp. v. Blodgett
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Priester
- Saltonstall v. Saltonstall
- Miller v. Schoene
March 1928 · 8 decisions
April 1928 · 32 decisions
- Nigro v. United States
- Corona Cord Tire Co. v. Dovan Chemical Corp.
- Krauss Brothers Lumber Co. v. Mellon
- J. W. Hampton, Jr., & Co. v. United States
- Casey v. United States
- Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Leitch
- Larkin v. Paugh
- Untermyer v. Anderson
- Wilson v. Pacific Mail Steamship Co.
- United States v. Manzi
- Alaska Packers Ass'n v. Industrial Accident Commission
- Lamborn v. National Bank of Commerce of Norfolk
- TEXAS & C. RR v. Northside Ry.
- Midland Valley Railroad v. Barkley
- Humes v. United States
- Grosfield v. United States
- Montana National Bank v. Yellowstone County of Montana
- Donnelley v. United States
- Black & White Taxicab & Transfer Co. v. Brown & Yellow Taxicab & Transfer Co.
- Moore v. City of Nampa
- Danciger & Emerich Oil Co. v. Smith
- City of New Brunswick v. United States
- New Mexico v. Texas
- Work v. Braffet
- Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad v. Risty
- Shaw v. Gibson-Zahniser Oil Corp.
- Heiner v. Tindle
- Blodgett v. Silberman
- Williams v. Great Southern Lumber Co.
- Brooke v. City of Norfolk
- Coffin Brothers & Co. v. Bennett
- Louisville Gas & Electric Co. v. Coleman
May 1928 · 35 decisions
- City of Gainesville v. Brown-Crummer Investment Co.
- Dugan v. Ohio
- Compania De Navegacion Interior, S. A. v. Fireman's Fund Insurance
- Gaines v. Washington
- Ferry v. Ramsey
- L. P. Larson, Jr., Co. v. Wm. Wrigley, Jr., Co.
- King Manufacturing Co. v. City Council of Augusta
- Sultan Railway & Timber Co. v. Department of Labor & Industries
- Long v. Rockwood
- Plamals v. S. S. "Pinar Del Rio"
- St. Louis & Southwestern Railway Co. v. Nattin
- Standard Pipe Line Co. v. Miller County Highway & Bridge District
- Sprout v. South Bend
- Great Northern Railway Co. v. United States
- Nectow v. City of Cambridge
- Springer v. Government of Philippine Islands
- Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of Columbia v. Mitchell
- Panhandle Oil Co. v. Mississippi Ex Rel. Knox
- Buzynski v. Luckenbach Steamship Co.
- United States v. Goldman
- Reinecke v. Gardner
- Holland Furniture Co. v. Perkins Glue Co.
- Jenkins v. National Surety Co.
- Ex Parte Williams
- Willing v. Chicago Auditorium Assn.
- Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. United States
- McCoy v. Shaw
- Southern Pacific Co. v. Haglund
- Stipcich v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
- Quaker City Cab Co. v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
- National Leather Co. v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- The Malcolm Baxter, Jr.
- Mellon v. Goodyear
- Midland Nat. Bank of Minneapolis v. Dakota Life Ins. Co.
- Ribnik v. McBride
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