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Supreme Court Opinions — October Term 1856

Most-cited Supreme Court opinions filed in October Term 1856 (October 1, 1856 to September 30, 1857), from CourtListener's bulk data. CourtListener's bulk data has 36 records for this term with at least one citation or a syllabus (35 with at least one citation, 1 with a syllabus, counted separately); up to 100 of them, ordered by citation count, are listed below.

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  1. January 20, 1857· cited 105×
    EJ DuPont De Nemours & Co. v. Vance
  2. February 17, 1857· cited 72×
    Commercial Mutual Marine Insurance v. Union Mutual Insurance Co.
  3. March 18, 1857· cited 61×
    Fellows v. Blacksmith
  4. March 18, 1857· cited 58×
    Beebe v. Russell
  5. February 27, 1857· cited 49×
    Walton v. Cotton
  6. December 15, 1856· cited 45×
    Sturgis v. Honold
  7. December 16, 1856· cited 42×
    United States v. Le Baron
  8. February 27, 1857· cited 40×
    Garrison v. Memphis Insurance Company
  9. February 18, 1857· cited 39×
    Richardson v. City of Boston
  10. January 15, 1857· cited 35×
    Coiron v. Millaudon
  11. December 24, 1856· cited 35×
    Moore v. Greene
  12. February 18, 1857· cited 32×
    Schuchardt v. Babbidge
  13. March 18, 1857· cited 29×
    Byers v. Surget
  14. March 18, 1857· cited 28×
    United States v. Peralta
  15. February 19, 1857· cited 23×
    Field v. Seabury
  16. December 16, 1856· cited 16×
    Baker v. Nachtrieb
  17. February 27, 1857· cited 13×
    Bulkley v. Honold
  18. January 27, 1857· cited 12×
    New York and Virginia Steamship v. Ezra Calderwood
  19. February 18, 1857· cited 11×
    Mordecai v. Lindsay
  20. February 27, 1857· cited 10×
    Pratt v. Reed
  21. March 18, 1857· cited 6×
    Ballard v. Thomas
  22. January 20, 1857· cited 6×
    Betts v. Lewis
  23. March 18, 1857· cited 5×
    Farrelly v. Woodfolk
  24. March 18, 1857· cited 4×
    McRea v. Branch of the Bank of Alabama
  25. February 18, 1857· cited 4×
    Wolfe v. Lewis
  26. March 18, 1857· cited 3×
    Michigan Central Railroad v. Michigan Southern Railroad
  27. December 29, 1856· cited 3×
    Sebastian Willot, John McDonald and Joseph Hunn, in Error v. John F. A. Sandford
  28. January 15, 1857· cited 2×
    Morgan v. Curtenius
  29. February 27, 1857· cited 1×
    Tod v. Steamboat Sultana
  30. February 23, 1857· cited 1×
    Burke v. Gaines
  31. January 18, 1857· cited 1×
    C. C. Lathrop, in Error v. Charles Judson
  32. December 15, 1856· cited 1×
    New York & Virginia Steamship Co. v. Calderwood
  33. December 12, 1856
    Coggeshall v. Hartshorn

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