List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 23

As such, the dual form of citation to, for example, Brent v. Davis is 23 U.S. (10 Wheat.)

The Supreme Court is established by Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution of the United States, which says: "The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court .

The size of the Court is not specified; the Constitution leaves it to Congress to set the number of justices.

were decided, the Court comprised these seven justices: In The Antelope, 23 U.S. (10 Wheat.)

66 (1825), the Supreme Court considered, for the first time, the legitimacy of the Atlantic slave trade.

The Slave Ship , an 1840 painting by J. M. W. Turner
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Seal of the United States Supreme Court