Term recap
October Term 1948 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1948, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
123
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
29
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down October 11, 1948 and the last on August 4, 1949. The busiest single day was June 27, 1949 with 14 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
October 1948 · 10 decisions
November 1948 · 4 decisions
December 1948 · 8 decisions
January 1949 · 14 decisions
- Lincoln Federal Labor Union v. Northwestern Iron & Metal Co.
- Ayrshire Collieries Corp. v. United States
- American Federation of Labor v. American Sash & Door Co.
- Frazier v. United States
- Coray v. Southern Pacific Co.
- Jungersen v. Ostby & Barton Co.
- Estate of Spiegel v. Commissioner
- Commissioner v. Jacobson
- La Crosse Telephone Corp. v. Wisconsin Employment Relations Board
- Klapprott v. United States
- Leiman v. Guttman
- Henslee v. Union Planters National Bank & Trust Co.
- Goggin v. Division of Labor Law Enforcement of Cal.
- Railway Express Agency, Inc. v. New York
February 1949 · 11 decisions
- Callaway v. Benton
- McComb v. Jacksonville Paper Co.
- Michelson v. United States
- Reynolds v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
- Wisconsin Electric Power Co. v. United States
- Commissioner v. Estate of Church
- Lawson v. Suwannee Fruit & Steamship Co.
- United States Ex Rel. Hirshberg v. Cooke
- Daniel v. Family Security Life Insurance
- National Labor Relations Board v. Stowe Spinning Co.
- Kovacs v. Cooper
March 1949 · 12 decisions
- City of New York v. Saper
- Algoma Plywood & Veneer Co. v. Wisconsin Employment Relations Board
- Ott, Commissioner of Public Finance v. Mississippi Barge Line Co.
- Fisher v. Pace
- Grand River Dam Authority v. Grand-Hydro
- Foley Bros., Inc. v. Filardo
- Stainback v. Mo Hock Ke Lok Po
- Commissioner v. Phipps
- Krulewitch v. United States
- National Carbide Corp. v. Commissioner
- United States v. Women's Sportswear Manufacturers Ass'n
- Wilkerson v. McCarthy
April 1949 · 10 decisions
- Giboney v. Empire Storage & Ice Co.
- Farrell v. United States
- United States v. Knight
- Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad v. Acme Fast Freight, Inc.
- Federal Power Commission v. Interstate Natural Gas Co.
- United States v. Jones
- Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. v. Civil Aeronautics Board
- H. P. Hood & Sons, Inc. v. Du Mond
- Oklahoma Tax Commission v. Texas Co.
- Wade v. Hunter
May 1949 · 21 decisions
- International Union, U. A. W. A., A. F. of L., Local 232 v. Wisconsin Employment Relations Board
- California v. Zook
- United States v. Urbuteit
- United States v. Wallace & Tiernan Co.
- United States Ex Rel. Johnson v. Shaughnessy
- Weade v. Dichmann, Wright & Pugh, Inc.
- Graver Tank & Mfg. Co. v. Linde Air Products Co.
- Brooks v. United States
- Union National Bank v. Lamb
- Rice v. Rice
- Ex Parte Collett
- Nye & Nissen v. United States
- Kilpatrick v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co.
- Hynes, Regional Director, Fish & Wildlife Service v. Grimes Packing Co.
- United States v. National City Lines, Inc.
- Smith v. United States
- Defense Supplies Corp. v. Lawrence Warehouse Co.
- Empresa Siderurgica, S. A. v. County of Merced
- Griffin v. United States
- Humphrey v. Smith
- Fountain v. Filson
June 1949 · 32 decisions
- United States v. Penn Foundry & Manufacturing Co.
- Young v. Ragen
- Williams v. New York
- Black Diamond Steamship Corp. v. Robert Stewart & Sons, Ltd.
- Joy Oil Co. v. State Tax Commission
- Terminiello v. Chicago
- Standard Oil Co. of California v. United States
- City of Morgantown v. Royal Insurance
- Federal Communications Commission v. WJR, Goodwill Station, Inc.
- Urie v. Thompson
- United States v. ICC
- Aeronautical Industrial District Lodge 727 v. Campbell
- Propper v. Clark
- Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp.
- Wheeling Steel Corp. v. Glander
- Woods v. Interstate Realty Co.
- United States v. Wittek
- Ragan v. Merchants Transfer & Warehouse Co.
- Lustig v. United States
- Wolf v. Colorado
- National Labor Relations Board v. Crompton-Highland Mills, Inc.
- Securities & Exchange Commission v. Central-Illinois Securities Corp.
- Eisler v. United States
- Interstate Oil Pipe Line Co. v. Stone
- Commissioner v. Culbertson
- Cosmopolitan Shipping Co. v. McAllister
- Fink v. Shepard Steamship Co.
- Gibbs v. Burke
- Christoffel v. United States
- Watts v. Indiana
- Kimball Laundry Co. v. United States
- Harris v. South Carolina
August 1949 · 1 decision
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