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This List of cases involving Abraham Lincoln concerns litigation in which Abraham Lincoln participated as a lawyer. He brought cases in local courts, the Illinois Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court during his career before he became President of the United States.
Abraham Lincoln was counsel of record in approximately 175 cases before Illinois' highest court. The history website of the Illinois Supreme Court lists all of these cases that have official citations, beginning with Scammin vs Wine, 3 Ill. 456 (1840), through to State of Illinois v. Illinois Central Railroad Company, 27 Ill. 64 (1861). [1]
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This List of cases involving Abraham Lincoln concerns litigation in which Abraham Lincoln participated as a lawyer. He brought cases in local courts, the Illinois Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court during his career before he became President of the United States.
Abraham Lincoln was counsel of record in approximately 175 cases before Illinois' highest court. The history website of the Illinois Supreme Court lists all of these cases that have official citations, beginning with Scammin vs Wine, 3 Ill. 456 (1840), through to State of Illinois v. Illinois Central Railroad Company, 27 Ill. 64 (1861). [1]
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