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Supreme Court Opinions — October Term 1871

Most-cited Supreme Court opinions filed in October Term 1871 (October 1, 1871 to September 30, 1872), from CourtListener's bulk data. CourtListener's bulk data has 56 records for this term with at least one citation or a syllabus (49 with at least one citation, 40 with a syllabus, counted separately); up to 100 of them, ordered by citation count, are listed below.

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  1. April 22, 1872· cited 765×
    Improvement Company v. Munson
  2. March 18, 1872· cited 214×
    Norwich Co. v. Wright
  3. October 30, 1871· cited 87×
    Cox v. Collector
  4. May 18, 1872· cited 75×
    Ex Parte Newman
  5. November 27, 1871· cited 46×
    Bronson's v. Chappell
  6. February 18, 1872· cited 30×
    Carlton v. Bokee
  7. March 25, 1872· cited 24×
    United States v. Crusell
  8. April 15, 1872· cited 23×
    Steines v. Franklin County
  9. May 18, 1872· cited 18×
    The Merrimac
  10. January 22, 1872· cited 16×
    People v. Central Railroad
  11. April 15, 1872· cited 15×
    Chew v. Brumagen
  12. January 29, 1872· cited 15×
    Nicolson Pavement Company v. Jenkins
  13. April 18, 1872· cited 11×
    Sevier v. Haskell
  14. March 18, 1872· cited 10×
    Hampton v. Rouse
  15. February 18, 1872· cited 9×
    Foulke v. Zimmerman
  16. April 18, 1872· cited 8×
    Pargoud v. United States
  17. February 18, 1872· cited 8×
    Dooley v. Smith
  18. February 26, 1872· cited 7×
    Bartemeyer v. Iowa
  19. November 18, 1871· cited 7×
    Western Mass. Ins. Co. v. Transportation Co.
  20. February 12, 1872· cited 6×
    Norwich Transportation Company v. Flint
  21. December 11, 1871· cited 6×
    Samson v. Smiley
  22. February 18, 1872· cited 4×
    Wheeler v. Harris
  23. November 13, 1871· cited 4×
    Wadsworth v. Warren
  24. May 18, 1872· cited 3×
    Easley v. Kellom
  25. April 22, 1872· cited 3×
    Kennebec Railroad v. Portland Railroad
  26. January 22, 1872· cited 3×
    Bank of West Tennessee v. Citizens' Bank of Louisiana
  27. April 18, 1872· cited 2×
    Palmer v. Marston
  28. December 15, 1871· cited 2×
    Grossmayer v. United States
  29. May 18, 1872· cited 1×
    Cockroft v. Vose
  30. February 19, 1872· cited 1×
    Philip v. Nock
  31. January 29, 1872· cited 1×
    Northwestern Union Packet Co. v. Home Insurance
  32. November 27, 1871· cited 1×
    Hennessy v. Sheldon
  33. October 30, 1871· cited 1×
    Insurance Company v. Huchbergers
  34. May 6, 1872
    Holmes v. Sevier
  35. March 25, 1872
    The Des Moines
  36. February 5, 1872
    Davidson v. Connelly
  37. February 5, 1872
    Plant v. Stovall
  38. December 18, 1871
    Gray v. Coan
  39. November 27, 1871
    Van Slyke v. Wisconsin

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