Supreme Court Opinions — October Term 1839
Most-cited Supreme Court opinions filed in October Term 1839 (October 1, 1839 to September 30, 1840), from CourtListener's bulk data. CourtListener's bulk data has 18 records for this term with at least one citation or a syllabus (18 with at least one citation, 0 with a syllabus, counted separately); up to 100 of them, ordered by citation count, are listed below.
- February 26, 1840· cited 74×Commercial & Railroad Bank of Vicksburg v. Slocomb, Richards & Co.
- March 18, 1840· cited 64×Games v. Stiles Ex Dem. Dunn
- February 24, 1840· cited 54×Peters v. Warren Insurance
- February 14, 1840· cited 43×Kane v. Paul
- January 21, 1840· cited 38×The Lessee of Walden v. Craig's Heirs
- March 18, 1840· cited 25×Fowler v. Brantly
- February 13, 1840· cited 16×Lessee of Lattimer v. Poteet
- February 10, 1840· cited 14×Frevall v. Bache
- February 11, 1840· cited 12×The Bank of Alexandria, in Error v. Edward and Francis Dyer, in Error
- February 19, 1840· cited 7×Covington v. Comstock
- February 11, 1840· cited 7×The Commonwealth Bank of Kentucky v. GRIFFITH
- February 20, 1840· cited 5×Smith v. Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co.
- February 12, 1840· cited 3×Keene v. Whitaker
- July 1, 1840· cited 1×Holmes v. Jennison
- July 1, 1840· cited 1×Decatur v. Paulding
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