Term recap
October Term 1947 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1947, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
111
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
30
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down October 13, 1947 and the last on June 21, 1948. The busiest single day was March 8, 1948 with 11 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
October 1947 · 3 decisions
November 1947 · 7 decisions
December 1947 · 5 decisions
January 1948 · 11 decisions
February 1948 · 12 decisions
March 1948 · 17 decisions
- United States v. Brown
- United States v. United States Gypsum Co.
- Mitchell v. Cohen
- Suttle v. Reich Bros. Construction Co.
- In Re Oliver
- United States v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
- Cole v. Arkansas
- Aero Mayflower Transit Co. v. Board of Railroad Commissioners
- Donaldson v. Read Magazine, Inc.
- Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. v. Public Service Commission
- Illinois Ex Rel. McCollum v. Board of Ed. of School Dist. No. 71, Champaign Cty.
- Eccles v. Peoples Bank of Lakewood Village
- Bakery Sales Drivers Local Union No. 33 v. Wagshal
- Woods v. Stone
- Francis v. Southern Pacific Co.
- Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. Moore
- Commissioner v. South Texas Lumber Co.
April 1948 · 15 decisions
- Parker v. Illinois
- Shade v. Downing
- United States v. Line Material Co.
- Sipuel v. Board of Regents of Univ. of Okla.
- Chicago & Southern Air Lines, Inc. v. Waterman Steamship Corp.
- Massachusetts v. United States
- King v. Order of United Commercial Travelers of America
- Commissioner v. Sunnen
- Fisher v. Hurst
- Mogall v. United States
- United States v. South Buffalo Railway Co.
- Federal Trade Commission v. Cement Institute
- United States v. Scophony Corp. of America
- Andres v. United States
- Anderson v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.
May 1948 · 17 decisions
- Schine Chain Theatres, Inc. v. United States
- Republic Natural Gas Co. v. Oklahoma
- United States v. Evans
- Hurd v. Hodge
- Winters v. New York
- Federal Trade Commission v. Morton Salt Co.
- Moore v. New York
- United States v. Griffith
- Shelley v. Kraemer
- United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc.
- Schwabacher v. United States
- Woods v. Hills
- Kennedy v. Silas Mason Co.
- Price v. Johnston
- United States v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
- Briggs v. Pennsylvania Railroad
- Hunter v. Martin
June 1948 · 24 decisions
- Hilton v. Sullivan
- Paterno v. Lyons
- Mandeville Island Farms, Inc. v. American Crystal Sugar Co.
- Estin v. Estin
- Sherrer v. Sherrer
- Coe v. Coe
- Kreiger v. Kreiger
- Bute v. Illinois
- Saia v. New York
- Takahashi v. Fish & Game Commission
- Central Greyhound Lines, Inc. v. Mealey
- United States v. John J. Felin & Co.
- Wade v. Mayo
- Trupiano v. United States
- West v. Oklahoma Tax Commission
- Townsend v. Burke
- Hedgebeth v. North Carolina
- Ahrens v. Clark
- United States v. Columbia Steel Co.
- United States v. National City Lines, Inc.
- Phyle v. Duffy
- United States v. CIO
- Taylor v. Alabama
- Memphis Natural Gas Co. v. Stone
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