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Supreme Court Opinions — October Term 1861

Most-cited Supreme Court opinions filed in October Term 1861 (October 1, 1861 to September 30, 1862), from CourtListener's bulk data. CourtListener's bulk data has 48 records for this term with at least one citation or a syllabus (48 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. December 23, 1861· cited 93×
    Dutton v. Strong
  2. February 17, 1862· cited 90×
    Johnston v. Jones
  3. March 17, 1862· cited 89×
    The Steamer St. Lawrence
  4. January 13, 1862· cited 71×
    Weightman v. Corporation of Washington
  5. February 18, 1862· cited 68×
    Cleveland v. Chamberlain
  6. December 23, 1861· cited 67×
    Hogg v. Ruffner
  7. February 10, 1862· cited 61×
    The Propeller Commerce
  8. February 10, 1862· cited 53×
    Nelson v. Woodruff
  9. December 23, 1861· cited 52×
    4,885 Bags of Linseed
  10. March 10, 1862· cited 40×
    Sherman v. Smith
  11. March 24, 1862· cited 38×
    United States v. Jackalow
  12. December 23, 1861· cited 33×
    Stiles v. Davis & Barton
  13. March 24, 1862· cited 28×
    United States v. Vallejo
  14. March 24, 1862· cited 28×
    Leonard v. Davis
  15. March 17, 1862· cited 25×
    United States v. Knight's Administrator
  16. March 17, 1862· cited 21×
    Inbusch v. Farwell
  17. March 24, 1862· cited 19×
    Clagett v. Kilbourne
  18. March 21, 1862· cited 19×
    Washington and Turner v. Ogden
  19. March 24, 1862· cited 18×
    Moffitt v. Garr
  20. February 18, 1862· cited 17×
    The Steamer New Philadelphia
  21. January 20, 1862· cited 17×
    Farni v. Tesson
  22. March 24, 1862· cited 16×
    Foster v. Goddard
  23. January 20, 1862· cited 12×
    Hoyt v. Shelden, Ex'r of Thompson, and the Long Island Railroad Company
  24. January 13, 1862· cited 12×
    Rogers v. Law
  25. March 24, 1862· cited 11×
    Pratt v. Fitzhugh
  26. March 10, 1862· cited 8×
    Hodge v. Combs
  27. January 27, 1862· cited 8×
    Silliman v. Hudson River Bridge Co.
  28. March 24, 1862· cited 7×
    Farney v. Towle
  29. January 18, 1862· cited 7×
    Wabash & Erie Canal v. Beers
  30. February 18, 1862· cited 6×
    The Brig Collenberg
  31. February 10, 1862· cited 6×
    Carondelet v. Saint Louis
  32. March 18, 1862· cited 4×
    United States v. Neleigh
  33. February 17, 1862· cited 4×
    O'Brien v. Perry
  34. March 17, 1862· cited 3×
    Haussknecht v. Claypool
  35. March 10, 1862· cited 2×
    Pindell v. Mullikin
  36. February 10, 1862· cited 2×
    Flanigan v. Turner
  37. January 18, 1862· cited 2×
    Hecker v. Fowler
  38. January 18, 1862· cited 1×
    Singleton v. Touchard

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