Term recap
October Term 1929 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1929, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
135
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
21
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down October 14, 1929 and the last on June 2, 1930. The busiest single day was February 24, 1930 with 26 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
October 1929 · 4 decisions
November 1929 · 13 decisions
- Wheeler v. Greene
- Colgate v. United States
- Williams v. Riley
- Bekins Van Lines, Inc. v. Riley
- Herbring v. Lee
- Safe Deposit & Trust Co. of Baltimore v. Virginia
- Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Mihas
- General Insurance Co. of America v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.
- Silver v. Silver
- Bromley v. McCaughn
- Wick v. Chelan Electric Co.
- United States v. Erie Railroad
- Interstate Commerce Commission v. United States Ex Rel. Los Angeles
December 1929 · 4 decisions
January 1930 · 18 decisions
- Farmers Loan & Trust Co. v. Minnesota
- Corn Exch. Bank v. Commissioner
- Wabash Railway Co. v. Barclay
- International Shoe Co. v. Federal Trade Commission
- Kothe v. R. C. Taylor Trust
- Luckenbach Steamship Co. v. United States
- Johnson v. United States Shipping Bd. Emergency Fleet Corporation
- Carpenter v. Shaw
- United Rs. & Elec. Co. of Baltimore v. West
- United States v. Jackson
- Reinecke v. Spalding
- Brewster v. Gage
- Wilbur v. United States Ex Rel. Krushnic
- Grant v. A. B. Leach & Co.
- Lucas v. North Texas Lumber Co.
- Henry Ford & Son, Inc. v. Little Falls Fibre Co.
- Ohio Ex Rel. Popovici v. Agler
- Clarke v. Haberle Crystal Springs Brewing Co.
February 1930 · 26 decisions
- Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Bryant
- Renziehausen v. Lucas
- Florsheim Brothers Drygoods Co. v. United States
- Early v. Richardson
- Piedmont & Northern Ry. Co. v. United States
- United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Guenther
- Davis v. Preston
- Chicago & North Western Railway Co. v. Lindell
- Kansas City Southern Railway Co. v. Guardian Trust Co.
- District of Columbia v. Fred
- Lindgren v. United States
- New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. v. State Board of Taxes & Assessments
- Superior Oil Co. v. Mississippi Ex Rel. Knox
- United States v. Guaranty Trust Co. of NY
- Collie v. Fergusson
- District of Columbia v. Thompson
- Tagg Bros. & Moorhead v. United States
- United States v. Wurzbach
- Lucas v. American Code Co.
- Minerals Separation North American Corp. v. Magma Copper Co.
- New York Central Railroad v. Ambrose
- Illinois Central Railroad v. Crail
- Moore v. Mitchell
- Carley & Hamilton, Inc. v. Snook Chief of the Division of Motor Vehicles
- Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad v. Carroll
- Cooper v. United States
March 1930 · 7 decisions
April 1930 · 29 decisions
- National Fire Ins. Co. of Hartford v. Thompson
- Kentucky v. Indiana
- Alexander Sprunt & Son, Inc. v. United States
- New York Central Railroad v. Marcone
- Missouri Ex Rel. Missouri Insurance v. Gehner
- Nogueira v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
- Lucas v. Ox Fibre Brush Co.
- Miller v. McLaughlin
- Meadows v. United States
- Henrietta Mills v. Rutherford Co.
- United States v. Adams
- Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Toops
- May v. Heiner
- Niles Bement Pond Co. v. United States
- Lucas v. Kansas City Structural Steel Co.
- Lucas v. Pilliod Lumber Co.
- Ohio Oil Co. v. Conway
- Jackson v. United States
- United States v. Unzeuta
- Patton v. United States
- United States v. Worley
- John Baizley Iron Works v. Span
- Wilbur v. United States Ex Rel. Kadrie
- Employers' Liability Assurance Corp. v. Cook
- Wisconsin v. Illinois
- Brinkerhoff-Faris Trust & Savings Co. v. Hill
- Dohany v. Rogers
- Corliss v. Bowers
- Cochran v. Louisiana State Board of Education
May 1930 · 29 decisions
- Escher v. Woods
- Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. v. United States
- Danovitz v. United States
- Federal Radio Commission v. General Electric Co.
- Home Insurance v. Dick
- United States v. Updike
- United States Shipping Bd. Merchant Fleet Corporation v. Harwood
- Eliason v. Wilborn
- Georgia Power Co. v. City of Decatur
- Board of Railroad Commissioners v. Great Northern Railway Co.
- Western Cartridge Co. v. Emmerson
- Charter Shipping Co. v. Bowring, Jones & Tidy, Ltd.
- Todok v. Union State Bank of Harvard
- Tyler v. United States
- Corporation Comm'n of Okla. v. Lowe
- New Orleans Public Service, Inc. v. City of New Orleans
- Barker Painting Co. v. Local No. 734, Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators, & Paperhangers
- Grubb v. Public Util. Comm'n of Ohio
- Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway Co. v. United States
- Wheeler Lumber Bridge & Supply Co. v. United States
- Jamison v. Encarnacion
- Baldwin v. Missouri
- Campbell Fed. Prohibition Administrator v. Galeno Chemical Co.
- Campbell v. W. H. Long & Co.
- Richbourg Motor Co. v. United States
- Texas & NOR Co. v. Brotherhood of Ry. & Steamship Clerks
- Broad River Power Co. v. South Carolina Ex Rel. Daniel
- United States v. Norris
- United States v. Farrar
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