Term recap
October Term 1944 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1944, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
166
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
27
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down October 9, 1944 and the last on September 20, 1945. The busiest single day was June 18, 1945 with 17 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
October 1944 · 6 decisions
November 1944 · 5 decisions
December 1944 · 16 decisions
- Skidmore v. Swift & Co.
- Smith v. Davis
- Cline v. Kaplan
- Kann v. United States
- McDonald v. Commissioner
- Barber v. Barber
- Spector Motor Service, Inc. v. McLaughlin
- United States v. Standard Rice Co.
- Armour & Co. v. Wantock
- Busby v. Electric Utilities Employees Union
- Claridge Apartments Co. v. Commissioner
- Walling v. Helmerich & Payne, Inc.
- United States v. Johnson
- Steele v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad
- United States v. Crescent Amusement Co.
- Wallace Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board
January 1945 · 35 decisions
- Industrial Addition Assn. v. Commissioner
- Georgia Hardwood Lumber Co. v. Compania De Navegacion Transmar, S. A.
- Singer v. United States
- McCullough v. Kammerer Corp.
- Coffman v. Federal Laboratories, Inc.
- United States v. Waddill, Holland & Flinn, Inc.
- Ex Parte Endo
- Coffman v. Breeze Corporations, Inc.
- Commissioner v. Scottish American Investment Co.
- City of Cleveland v. United States
- Williams v. Kaiser
- United States v. Rosenwasser
- National Metropolitan Bank v. United States
- McKenzie v. Irving Trust Co.
- Order of Railway Conductors of America v. Pennsylvania Railroad
- Tomkins v. Missouri
- Ford Motor Co. v. Department of Treasury
- Hartford-Empire Co. v. United States
- United States v. Townsley
- Thomas v. Collins
- Tiller v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
- Prudence Realization Corp. v. Ferris
- F. W. Fitch Co. v. United States
- Pennsylvania Railroad v. United States
- Rosenman v. United States
- Blair v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
- City Bank Farmers Trust Co. v. McGowan
- Herget v. Central National Bank & Trust Co.
- Weiler v. United States
- United States v. Pennsylvania R. Co.
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Lenroot
- Otis & Co. v. Securities & Exchange Commission
- Regal Knitwear Co. v. National Labor Relations Board
- Fondren v. Commissioner
- Choate v. Commissioner
February 1945 · 16 decisions
- Herb v. Pitcairn
- Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Co. v. Rothensies
- Price v. Gurney
- Republic of Mexico v. Hoffman
- Commissioner v. Estate of Field
- House v. Mayo
- Barr v. United States
- Muschany v. United States
- State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Duel
- Tunstall v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen
- Korematsu v. United States
- Canadian Aviator, Ltd. v. United States
- Young v. Higbee Co.
- Catlin v. United States
- Garber v. Crews
- United States v. Beach
March 1945 · 15 decisions
- Merrill v. Fahs
- Robinson v. United States
- Drummond v. United States
- United States v. Frankfort Distilleries, Inc.
- Central States Electric Co. v. City of Muscatine
- Dow Chemical Co. v. Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Co.
- Georgia v. Pennsylvania Railroad
- Malinski v. New York
- Commissioner v. Smith
- Special Equipment Co. v. Coe
- United States v. Commodore Park, Inc.
- Estate of Putnam v. Commissioner
- A. H. Phillips, Inc. v. Walling
- Commissioner v. Wemyss
- Northwestern Bands of Shoshone Indians v. United States
April 1945 · 21 decisions
- Commissioner v. Wheeler
- Market Street Railway Co. v. Railroad Commission of California
- United States v. General Motors Corp.
- Hartford-Empire Co. v. United States
- Gemsco, Inc. v. Walling
- Webre Steib Co. v. Commissioner
- Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. v. Federal Power Commission
- Commissioner v. Court Holding Co.
- Cramer v. United States
- Connecticut Light & Power Co. v. Federal Power Commission
- Commissioner v. Smith
- Precision Instrument Manufacturing Co. v. Automotive Maintenance MacHinery Co.
- Rice v. Olson
- Federal Trade Commission v. A. E. Staley Manufacturing Co.
- Corn Products Refining Co. v. Federal Trade Commission
- Copperweld Steel Co. v. Industrial Commission of Ohio
- Hooven & Allison Co. v. Evatt
- White v. Ragen
- Republic Aviation Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board
- Brooklyn Savings Bank v. O'Neil
- Herb v. Pitcairn
May 1945 · 14 decisions
- United States v. Willow River Power Co.
- Screws v. United States
- Hoover Co. v. Coe
- Colorado Interstate Gas Co. v. Federal Power Commission
- Esenwein v. Commonwealth Ex Rel. Esenwein
- Ambassador, Inc. v. United States
- J. F. Fitzgerald Construction Co. v. Pedersen
- Colorado-Wyoming Gas Co. v. Federal Power Commission
- Jewell Ridge Coal Corp. v. Local No. 6167, United Mine Workers
- Williams v. North Carolina
- United States Alkali Export Ass'n v. United States
- United States v. Hancock Truck Lines, Inc.
- United States v. Beuttas
- Sinclair & Carroll Co. v. Interchemical Corp.
June 1945 · 37 decisions
- American Power & Light Co. v. SEC
- United States v. Capital Transit Co.
- Akins v. Texas
- Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co.
- Trust Under the Will of Bingham v. Commissioner
- Walling v. Harnischfeger Corp.
- Walling v. Youngerman-Reynolds Hardwood Co.
- In Re Summers
- Keegan v. United States
- North Carolina v. United States
- Alabama v. United States
- Alabama State Federation of Labor v. McAdory
- Commissioner v. Disston
- Nebraska v. Wyoming
- Angelus Milling Co. v. Commissioner
- Lumber & Sawmill Workers v. Millis
- Hill v. Florida Ex Rel. Watson
- 10 East 40th Street Building, Inc. v. Callus
- Lincoln National Life Insurance v. Read
- Congress of Industrial Organizations v. McAdory
- ICC v. Parker
- Chase Securities Corp. v. Donaldson
- Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Co. v. Burley
- Guaranty Trust Co. v. York
- International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers, Locals Nos. 15, 17, 107, 108 & 111 v. Eagle-Picher Mining & Smelting Co.
- Charleston Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Alderson, State Tax Com'r
- American Trucking Associations, Inc. v. United States
- Southern Pacific Co. v. Arizona Ex Rel. Sullivan
- Associated Press v. United States
- Hunt v. Crumboch
- Barrett Line, Inc. v. United States
- Borden Co. v. Borella
- Railway Mail Assn. v. Corsi
- Commissioner v. Estate of Bedford
- Bridges v. Wixon
- Finn v. Meighan
- De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd. v. United States
September 1945 · 1 decision
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