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The Justices' Circuit Court Opinions
This exhibit summarizes selected opinions and grand jury charges delivered by justices of the Supreme Court in the course of their duties on the U.S. circuit courts, the main trial courts of the federal judiciary from 1789 to 1911. Read full introduction
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Chief Justice John Jay (1789–1795) |
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Associate Justice William Cushing (1789–1810) |
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Associate Justice James Wilson (1789–1798) |
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Associate Justice James Iredell (1790–1799) |
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Associate Justice William Paterson (1793–1806) |
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Associate Justice Samuel Chase (1796–1811) |
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Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth (1796–1800) |
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Associate Justice Bushrod Washington (1798–1829) |
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Chief Justice John Marshall (1801–1835) |
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Associate Justice William Johnson, Jr. (1804–1834) |
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Associate Justice Henry Brockholst Livingston (1807–1823) |
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Associate Justice Gabriel Duvall (1811–1835) |
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Associate Justice Joseph Story (1811–1845) |
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Associate Justice Smith Thompson (1823–1843) |
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Associate Justice John McLean (1829–1861) |
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Associate Justice Henry Baldwin (1830–1844) |
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Associate Justice James Moore Wayne (1835–1867) |
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Associate Justice Philip Pendleton Barbour (1836–1841) |
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Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney (1836–1864) |
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Associate Justice John Catron (1837–1865) |
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Associate Justice John McKinley (1837–1852) |
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Associate Justice Peter Vivian Daniel (1841–1860) |
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Associate Justice Samuel Nelson (1845–1872) |
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Associate Justice Levi Woodbury (1845–1851) |
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Associate Justice Robert Cooper Grier (1846–1870) |
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Associate Justice Benjamin Robbins Curtis (1851–1857) |
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Associate Justice John Archibald Campbell (1853–1861) |
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Associate Justice Nathan Clifford (1858–1881) |
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Associate Justice Noah Haynes Swayne (1862–1881) |
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Associate Justice Samuel Freeman Miller (1862–1890) |
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Associate Justice David Davis (1862–1877) |
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Associate Justice Stephen Johnson Field (1863–1897) |
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Chief Justice Salmon Portland Chase (1864–1873) |
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Associate Justice William Strong (1870–1880) |
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Associate Justice Joseph P. Bradley (1870–1892) |
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Associate Justice Ward Hunt (1872–1882) |
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Chief Justice Morrison Remick Waite (1874–1888) |
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Associate Justice John Marshall Harlan (1877–1911) |
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Associate Justice William Burnham Woods (1880–1887) |
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Associate Justice Stanley Matthews (1881–1889) |
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Associate Justice Horace Gray (1881–1902) |
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Associate Justice Samuel M. Blatchford (1882–1893) |
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Associate Justice Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (1888–1893) |
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Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller (1888–1910) |
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Associate Justice David Josiah Brewer (1889–1910) |