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== Four cases? ==

"The Court heard only four cases during Jay's Chief Justiceship." This is incorrect. I have in front of me volume 3 of the U.S. Reports, which has six cases heard by the Court in 1794 and 1795 alone (before Jay resigned as Chief Justice July 1, 1795). The cases are Georgia v. Brailsford, 3 US 1; The Betsey (Glass v. The Sloop Betsy), 3 US 5; U.S. v. Hamilton, 3 U.S. 14, Bingham v. Cabot, 3 U.S. 15; U.S. v. Lawrence, 3 U.S. 35; Penhallow v. Doane, 3 U.S. 44. The section on the Jay Court continues the error by analyzing the four cases by saying "the first case," etc.

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Four cases?

"The Court heard only four cases during Jay's Chief Justiceship." This is incorrect. I have in front of me volume 3 of the U.S. Reports, which has six cases heard by the Court in 1794 and 1795 alone (before Jay resigned as Chief Justice July 1, 1795). The cases are Georgia v. Brailsford, 3 US 1; The Betsey (Glass v. The Sloop Betsy), 3 US 5; U.S. v. Hamilton, 3 U.S. 14, Bingham v. Cabot, 3 U.S. 15; U.S. v. Lawrence, 3 U.S. 35; Penhallow v. Doane, 3 U.S. 44. The section on the Jay Court continues the error by analyzing the four cases by saying "the first case," etc.