List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 47
This is a list of cases reported in volume 47 (6 How.) of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States from December 1847 to March 1848. Nominative reports In 1874, the U.S. government created the United States Reports, and retroactively numbered older privately-published case reports as part of the new series. As a result, cases appearing in volumes 1–90 of U.S. Reports have dual citation forms; one for the volume number of U.S. Reports, and one for the volume number of the reports named for the relevant reporter of decisions (these are called "nominative reports"). Benjamin Chew Howard Starting with the 42nd volume of U.S. Reports, the Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States was Benjamin Chew Howard. Howard was Reporter of Decisions from 1843 to 1860, covering volumes 42 through 65 of United States Reports which correspond to volumes 1 through 24 of his Howard's Reports. As such, the dual form of citation to, for example, Stacy v. Thrasher ex rel. Sellers is 47 U.S. (6 How.) 44 (1848). Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of 47 U.S. (6 How.) The Supreme Court is established by Article III,