This is a list of cases reported in volume 34 (9 Pet.)

[1] 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 such, the dual form of citation to, for example, Scott v. Lloyd is 34 U.S. (9 Pet.)

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