Term recap
October Term 1930 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1930, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
164
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
20
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down November 24, 1930 and the last on June 1, 1931. The busiest single day was April 13, 1931 with 31 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
November 1930 · 14 decisions
- Goodell v. Koch
- Klein v. Board of Tax Supervisors of Jefferson Cty.
- Sherman v. United States
- Poe v. Seaborn
- Beidler v. South Carolina Tax Commission
- Crooks v. Harrelson
- Beaumont, Sour Lake & Western Railway Co. v. Beaumont
- Stratton v. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co.
- Aluminum Castings Co. v. Routzahn
- Paramount Famous Lasky Corp. v. United States
- Hopkins v. Bacon
- Bender v. Pfaff
- United States v. First National Pictures, Inc.
- District of Columbia v. Colts
December 1930 · 6 decisions
January 1931 · 23 decisions
- United States v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad
- Go-Bart Importing Co. v. United States
- United States v. Benz
- W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Co. v. Burnet
- O'Gorman & Young, Inc. v. Hartford Fire Ins. Co.
- American Bond & Mortgage Co. v. United States
- Willcutts v. Bunn
- Stange v. United States
- Burnet v. Chicago Railway Equipment Co.
- White v. Johnson
- Burnet v. Sanford & Brooks Co.
- Uravic v. F. Jarka Co.
- Fawcus MacHine Co. v. United States
- Railroad Comm'n of Wis. v. Maxcy
- Aiken v. Burnet
- Memphis & Charleston Railway Co. v. Pace
- Educational Films Corp. of America v. Ward
- International Paper Co. v. United States
- United States v. Malcolm
- Graham & Foster v. Goodcell
- Mascot Oil Co. v. United States
- Burnet v. Willingham Loan & Trust Co.
- Magee v. United States
February 1931 · 36 decisions
- Pottstown Iron Co. v. United States
- United States v. Boston Buick Co.
- Ensten v. Simon, Ascher & Co.
- Railway Express Agency, Inc. v. Virginia
- United States v. Swift & Co.
- Louisiana v. Mississippi
- Waite v. United States
- Burnet v. National Industrial Alcohol Co.
- Various Items of Personal Property v. United States
- Connecticut v. Massachusetts
- Coolidge v. Long
- V. Loewers Gambrinus Brewery Co. v. Anderson
- Alford v. United States
- Langnes v. Green
- Russian Volunteer Fleet v. United States
- Alward v. Johnson
- Prussian v. United States
- Fullerton Lumber Co. v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad
- Husty v. United States
- Saranac Automatic MacHine Corp. v. Wirebounds Patents Co.
- Story Parchment Co. v. Paterson Parchment Paper Co.
- Oxford Paper Co. v. the Nidarholm
- Denman v. Slayton
- United States v. Sprague
- Burnet v. Niagara Falls Brewing Co.
- Isaacs v. Hobbs Tie & Timber Co.
- United States v. La Franca
- Furst & Thomas v. Brewster
- United States v. Michel
- Alabama v. United States
- United States v. Atlanta, Birmingham & Coast Railroad
- Bain Peanut Co. of Tex. v. Pinson
- Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. United States
- Kansas City Southern Railway Co. v. United States
- Abie State Bank v. Bryan
- Smith v. Magic City Kennel Club, Inc.
March 1931 · 12 decisions
- American Fruit Growers, Inc. v. Brogdex Co.
- Georgia Public Service Commission v. United States
- Milliken v. United States
- Carbice Corp. of America v. American Patents Development Corp.
- McBoyle v. United States
- Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. United States
- Carr v. Zaja
- Flynn v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad
- United States Ex Rel. Cateches v. Day
- Storaasli v. Minnesota
- United States v. Munson Steamship Line
- Phillippides v. Day
April 1931 · 34 decisions
- United States v. Felt & Tarrant Manufacturing Co.
- First Nat. Bank of Chicago v. United States
- Burnet v. Whitehouse
- Herron v. Southern Pacific Co.
- Buck v. Jewell-LaSalle Realty Co.
- United States v. Utah
- Jewell-LaSalle Realty Co. v. Buck
- Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Martin
- Pagel v. MacLean
- Missouri Pacific Railroad v. Norwood
- Columbus & Greenville R. Co. v. Miller Ex Rel. Mississippi Levee Dist.
- Burnet v. Houston
- Burnet v. Henry
- Burnet v. Porter
- United States v. Wells
- Standard Marine Insurance v. Scottish Metropolitan Assurance Co.
- Bonwit Teller & Co. v. United States
- Burnet v. Thompson Oil & Gas Co.
- Smith v. Springdale Amusement Park, Ltd.
- Hans Rees' Sons, Inc. v. North Carolina Ex Rel. Maxwell
- Southern Railway Co. v. Hussey
- Eckert v. Burnet
- Interstate Transit, Inc. v. Lindsey
- Susquehanna Power Co. v. State Tax Comm'n of Md. (No. 1)
- Susquehanna Power Co. v. State Tax Commission
- Standard Oil Co. (Indiana) v. United States
- Standard Oil Co. (Indiana) v. United States
- Klein v. United States
- Group No. 1 Oil Corp. v. Bass
- New York Life Insurance v. Bowers
- Maynard v. Elliott
- Straton v. New
- State-Planters Bank & Trust Co. v. Parker
- Aldridge v. United States
May 1931 · 32 decisions
- New Jersey v. New York
- Smoot Sand & Gravel Corp. v. Washington Airport, Inc.
- New Jersey v. City of New York
- Arizona v. California
- Twin City Pipe Line Co. v. Harding Glass Co.
- Gasoline Products Co. v. Champlin Refining Co.
- Custer v. McCutcheon
- McCaughn v. Hershey Chocolate Co.
- East Ohio Gas Co. v. Tax Comm'n of Ohio
- Frank L. Young Co. v. McNeal-Edwards Co.
- Burnet v. Logan
- Carbice Corp. of America v. American Patents Development Co.
- Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Ry. Co. v. Moquin
- Nash-Breyer Motor Co. v. Burnet
- Stromberg v. California
- Graniteville Manufacturing Co. v. Query
- Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Powe
- United States Ex Rel. McLennan v. Wilbur
- Merchants Warehouse Co. v. United States
- State Bd. of Tax Commr's of Ind. v. Jackson
- Maas & Waldstein Co. v. United States
- Baldwin v. Iowa State Traveling Men's Assn.
- Smith v. Cahoon
- Phillips v. Commissioner
- Federal Trade Commission v. Raladam Co.
- Indian Motocycle Co. v. United States
- United States v. MacIntosh
- United States v. Bland
- Lewis-Simas-Jones Co. v. Southern Pacific Co.
- DeForest Radio Co. v. General Electric Co.
- Northport Power & Light Co. v. Hartley
- Fetters v. United States Ex Rel. Cunningham
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