Term recap
October Term 1951 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1951, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
90
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
25
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down October 15, 1951 and the last on June 9, 1952. The busiest single day was March 3, 1952 with 7 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
October 1951 · 1 decision
November 1951 · 8 decisions
December 1951 · 7 decisions
January 1952 · 20 decisions
- Rochin v. California
- Ex Parte Cogdell.
- Stack v. Boyle
- Desper v. Starved Rock Ferry Co.
- United States v. Kelly
- Carson v. Roane-Anderson Co.
- Pillsbury v. United Engineering Co.
- International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union v. Juneau Spruce Corp.
- United States v. Hayman
- United States v. Smith
- Morissette v. United States
- United States v. Halseth
- Halcyon Lines v. Haenn Ship Ceiling & Refitting Corp.
- Cook v. Cook
- Boyce Motor Lines, Inc. v. United States
- Cities Service Co. v. McGrath
- United States Ex Rel. Jaegeler v. Carusi
- United States v. Shannon
- Guessefeldt v. McGrath
- Georgia Railroad & Banking Co. v. Redwine
February 1952 · 5 decisions
March 1952 · 12 decisions
- Blackmar v. Guerre
- Standard Oil Co. v. Peck
- Adler v. Board of Ed. of City of New York
- Sutton v. Leib
- Perkins v. Benguet Consolidated Mining Co.
- Brannan v. Stark
- Day-Brite Lighting, Inc. v. Missouri
- Lilly v. Commissioner
- Carlson v. Landon
- Bruner v. United States
- United States v. Hood
- Doremus v. Board of Ed. of Hawthorne
April 1952 · 15 decisions
- First Nat. Bank of Chicago v. United Air Lines, Inc.
- Kaufman v. Societe Internationale Pour Participations Industrielles Et Commerciales, S. A.
- Uebersee Finanz-Korporation, A. G. v. McGrath
- Mullaney v. Anderson
- Memphis Steam Laundry Cleaner, Inc. v. Stone
- Ray v. Blair
- Sacher v. United States
- Buck v. California
- United States v. Atlantic Mutual Insurance
- Gray v. Board of Trustees of Univ. of Tenn.
- Zorach v. Clauson
- Lykes v. United States
- United States v. Oregon State Medical Society
- Far East Conference v. United States
- Madsen v. Kinsella
May 1952 · 14 decisions
- Ray v. Blair
- Swift & Co. v. United States
- Rutkin v. United States
- Stroble v. California
- Palmer Oil Corp. v. Amerada Petroleum Corp.
- Dixon v. Duffy
- United States v. Spector
- Federal Trade Commission v. Ruberoid Co.
- Besser Manufacturing Co. v. United States
- National Labor Relations Board v. American National Insurance
- Public Utilities Commission v. Pollak
- Pennsylvania Water & Power Co. v. Federal Power Commission
- Stembridge v. Georgia
- Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson
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