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Supreme Court Opinions — October Term 1853

Most-cited Supreme Court opinions filed in October Term 1853 (October 1, 1853 to September 30, 1854), from CourtListener's bulk data. CourtListener's bulk data has 54 records for this term with at least one citation or a syllabus (54 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. April 25, 1854· cited 170×
    Smith v. Swormstedt
  2. May 16, 1854· cited 117×
    The Steamboat New World v. King
  3. May 26, 1854· cited 100×
    Seymour v. McCormick
  4. February 16, 1854· cited 95×
    Wylie v. Coxe
  5. May 23, 1854· cited 89×
    CROSS v. Harrison
  6. January 10, 1854· cited 81×
    Kanouse v. Martin
  7. May 23, 1854· cited 74×
    Southard v. Russell
  8. May 23, 1854· cited 66×
    Barney Ex Rel. Woodhull v. Saunders
  9. January 10, 1854· cited 66×
    Eyre v. Potter
  10. February 27, 1854· cited 64×
    EXECUTORS OF McDONOGH v. MURDOCH
  11. January 30, 1854· cited 62×
    Northern Indiana Railroad Co. v. MICHIGAN CENT. RD. CO.
  12. March 18, 1854· cited 58×
    Pennington v. Gibson
  13. May 26, 1854· cited 47×
    Bartlett v. Kane
  14. February 16, 1854· cited 47×
    Murray v. Gibson
  15. February 23, 1854· cited 45×
    Turner v. Yates
  16. February 27, 1854· cited 42×
    Edward P. Fourniquet and Wife, and Martin W. Ewing and Wife v. John Perkins
  17. May 26, 1854· cited 38×
    Fanning v. Gregoire
  18. February 23, 1854· cited 33×
    Chouteau v. Molony
  19. February 18, 1854· cited 30×
    Brooks v. Fiske
  20. February 27, 1854· cited 29×
    Conrad v. Griffey
  21. February 16, 1854· cited 28×
    John Den, Ex Dem. Archibald Russell, in Error v. The Association of the Jersey Company
  22. February 16, 1854· cited 25×
    Kearney v. Taylor
  23. March 18, 1854· cited 23×
    Burgess v. Gray
  24. May 23, 1854· cited 22×
    Stuart v. Maxwell
  25. December 28, 1853· cited 20×
    United States v. Samuel Davenport's Heirs
  26. May 26, 1854· cited 17×
    Early v. Rogers
  27. May 24, 1854· cited 16×
    Calvert v. Bradley
  28. February 27, 1854· cited 15×
    Piquignot v. Pennsylvania Railroad
  29. January 17, 1854· cited 13×
    United States v. Ducros
  30. May 26, 1854· cited 12×
    Slicer Ex Rel. Slicer v. Bank of Pittsburg
  31. May 18, 1854· cited 9×
    Stafford v. the Union Bank of Louisiana
  32. February 13, 1854· cited 9×
    Forsyth v. Reynolds
  33. March 18, 1854· cited 8×
    McCabe v. Worthington
  34. January 17, 1854· cited 8×
    Rockhill v. Hanna
  35. December 23, 1853· cited 8×
    United States v. Roselius
  36. February 22, 1854· cited 7×
    Thorp v. Raymond
  37. May 18, 1854· cited 6×
    Davenport v. Fletcher
  38. May 16, 1854· cited 6×
    Amis v. Myers
  39. February 18, 1854· cited 6×
    Walworth v. Kneeland
  40. February 27, 1854· cited 5×
    Denise v. Ruggles
  41. January 17, 1854· cited 5×
    United States v. D'Auterieve
  42. December 15, 1853· cited 4×
    Den ex dem. Russell v. Ass'n of Jersey Co.
  43. December 30, 1853· cited 3×
    William Robertson, Trustee of the Commercial Bank of Natchez, in Error v. Henry R. Coulter, and James Richards, Executors of Joseph Collins, Deceased
  44. January 10, 1854· cited 2×
    Bispham v. Price
  45. December 15, 1853· cited 1×
    Robertson v. Coulter
  46. December 15, 1853· cited 1×
    Fourniquet v. Perkins

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