This reaffirmed full-strength size of the Court as consisting of six Justices would not be changed again until the addition of a seventh seat by the Seventh Circuit Act of 1807: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passing of this act, the Supreme Court of the United States shall be holden by the justices thereof, or any four of them, at the city of Washington, and shall have one session in each and every year, to commence on the first Monday of February annually, and that if four of the said justices shall not attend within ten days after the time hereby appointed for the commencement of the said session, the business of the said court shall be continued over till the next stated session thereof.
No circuit courts were created for the judicial districts of Kentucky, Tennessee, Maine, or the territories, although the 1801 Act would have done so.
But the most important part of the Act was the provision that a quorum of only one judge was needed to convene a circuit court.
With circuit riding largely optional, Supreme Court justices were no longer saddled with what they had previously felt was a tremendous burden.
The Act's flexibility proved crucial to the demise of circuit riding, which essentially disappeared by 1840.