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Supreme Court Opinions — October Term 1796

Most-cited Supreme Court opinions filed in October Term 1796 (October 1, 1796 to September 30, 1797), from CourtListener's bulk data. CourtListener's bulk data has 16 records for this term with at least one citation or a syllabus (16 with at least one citation, 0 with a syllabus, counted separately); up to 100 of them, ordered by citation count, are listed below.

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  1. October 1, 1796· cited 14×
    Ketland v. Cassius
  2. April 1, 1797· cited 11×
    Maxfield's Lessee v. Levy
  3. March 1, 1797· cited 11×
    M'Carty v. Emlen
  4. February 13, 1797· cited 9×
    Jennings v. Brig Perseverance
  5. April 1, 1797· cited 7×
    Smythe v. Banks
  6. August 15, 1797· cited 6×
    Hamilton v. Moore
  7. February 13, 1797· cited 6×
    Brown v. Van Braam
  8. April 1, 1797· cited 5×
    MAXWELL'S v. Levy
  9. December 1, 1796· cited 5×
    Graham v. Bickham
  10. April 1, 1797· cited 4×
    The United States v. Villato
  11. February 11, 1797· cited 4×
    Clerke, in Error v. Harwood
  12. February 15, 1797· cited 3×
    Huger v. South Carolina
  13. October 1, 1796· cited 3×
    Schermehorn v. L'EspEnassE
  14. February 15, 1797· cited 1×
    Clerke v. Harwood

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