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Smith Thompson

Smith Thompson

Supreme Court of the United States

Born 1768 in Amenia, NY

Died 1843 in Poughkeepsie, NY

FJC ID: 2380

Career output and lasting influence

Opinions attributed per year · peak 7/year

Supreme Court of the United States · 1823–184318231850190019502000202570
opinions

Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 28/year

Supreme Court of the United States · 1823–1843182318501900195020002025280
citing decisions

Supreme Court of the United States · 1823–1843

Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.

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Smith Thompson (January 17, 1768 – December 18, 1843) was a US Secretary of the Navy from 1819 to 1823 and a US Supreme Court Associate Justice from 1823 to his death.

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Gender
Male
Race
White

Prior employment

  1. Secretary of the U.S. Navy
    1818–1823
  2. Supreme Court of Judicature of New York
    Justice · 1802–1818
    • ↳chief justice · 1814–1818
  3. Private practice, Poughkeepsie, New York
    1793–1802
  4. New York constitutional convention
    Delegate · 1801
  5. New York
    New York
    State assemblyman · 1800
  6. Private practice, Troy, New York
    1792–1793

Appointments

  1. Supreme Court of the United States
    Supreme Court of the United States
    1823–1843 · Appointed by James Monroe (Jeffersonian Republican)
    Term ended: Death

Education

  1. Read law
    1792
  2. College of New Jersey (now Princeton University)
    1788