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Supreme Court Opinions — October Term 1857

Most-cited Supreme Court opinions filed in October Term 1857 (October 1, 1857 to September 30, 1858), from CourtListener's bulk data. CourtListener's bulk data has 45 records for this term with at least one citation or a syllabus (44 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. May 14, 1858· cited 248×
    Beers Ex Rel. Platenius v. Arkansas
  2. February 25, 1858· cited 117×
    United States v. Breitling
  3. April 22, 1858· cited 112×
    McCormick v. Talcott
  4. February 22, 1858· cited 77×
    McGavock v. Woodlief
  5. May 14, 1858· cited 76×
    Irvine v. Marshall
  6. January 11, 1858· cited 60×
    Withers v. Buckley
  7. February 24, 1858· cited 59×
    Leitensdorfer v. Webb
  8. February 18, 1858· cited 43×
    Lyon v. Bertram
  9. January 11, 1858· cited 43×
    Amos Wade v. Jacob R. Leroy and Henry E. Pierrepoint
  10. February 25, 1858· cited 42×
    Spencer v. Lapsley
  11. February 15, 1858· cited 33×
    Grant v. Poillon
  12. December 30, 1857· cited 33×
    Garland v. Wynn
  13. May 10, 1858· cited 31×
    Stinson v. Dousman
  14. January 11, 1858· cited 31×
    Bacon v. Howard
  15. January 25, 1858· cited 29×
    United States v. Cambuston
  16. May 18, 1858· cited 27×
    Holcombe v. McKusick
  17. January 28, 1858· cited 27×
    Secombe v. Steele
  18. February 24, 1858· cited 25×
    Jacob U. Payne v. Jonathan J. Niles
  19. May 18, 1858· cited 24×
    Sampson v. Peaslee
  20. May 18, 1858· cited 21×
    Gazzam v. Lessee of Phillips
  21. January 25, 1858· cited 20×
    Brown v. Shannon
  22. January 25, 1858· cited 19×
    Doswell v. De La Lanza
  23. February 15, 1858· cited 17×
    Dean v. Mason
  24. January 25, 1858· cited 16×
    Benjamin F. Morgan, in Error v. Alfred G. Curtenius and John L. Griswold
  25. May 10, 1858· cited 15×
    Selden v. Myers
  26. February 18, 1858· cited 15×
    Mattingly v. Boyd
  27. May 18, 1858· cited 14×
    Ahl v. Johnson
  28. May 18, 1858· cited 10×
    McFaul v. Ramsey
  29. May 14, 1858· cited 10×
    Sigerson v. Mathews
  30. January 11, 1858· cited 10×
    Horace C. Silsby v. Elisha Foote
  31. May 14, 1858· cited 7×
    Bank of Washington v. State of Arkansas
  32. February 15, 1858· cited 7×
    William S. Hungerford v. John Sigerson
  33. December 30, 1857· cited 6×
    Carroll v. Dorsey
  34. May 18, 1858· cited 5×
    Barton v. Forsyth
  35. May 18, 1858· cited 4×
    Moreland v. Page
  36. February 22, 1858· cited 3×
    Day v. Union India Rubber Co.
  37. December 15, 1857· cited 3×
    Hungerford v. Sigerson
  38. May 18, 1858· cited 2×
    Snow v. Hill
  39. May 18, 1858· cited 1×
    Ex Parte in the Matter of Franklin Ransom and Uzziah Weeman v. The Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty, of the City of New York
  40. May 14, 1858· cited 1×
    Alfred Ingraham v. Henry S. Dawson
  41. December 30, 1857· cited 1×
    Robert H. Wynn, and of William Wynn, Deceased, in Error v. Charles B. Morris
  42. February 24, 1858
    Watterson v. Payne

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