...inferior court within the state system can be described as a "[f]inal judgmen[t] or decre[e] rendered by the highest court of a State in which a decision could be had," which is the limitation that Congress has imposed on our jurisdiction to review state-court judgments...

...claimed by either party under such clause of the said constitution, treaty, statute, or commission, the final judgment or decree in any suit in the highest court of law or equity of a state, may be reexamined and reversed or affirmed in the supreme court of the United...

...while I read the following provision from the 25th section of the judicial act of the year 1789: " A final judgment or decree in any suit in the highest court of law or equity of a state in which a decision in the suit could be had, .where is drawn in question...

...of error. This section, stripped of passages unimportant in this inquiry, enacts, in substance, that a final judgment or decree in any suit in the highest court of law or equity of a state, where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute of, or an...

...act are, " that a final judgment or decree hi any suit in the highest court of law or 1818. equity of a state in which a decision could be had, where is drawn iu question," &c. " may be re-examined and reversed or affirmed in the supreme court of the United...

...within the provision of the twenty-fifth section of the judicial act. That section provides, " that a final judgment or decree, in any suit in the highest court oflaw or equity of a state, in which a decision in the suit could be had, where is drawn in question,...

...act ol Congress, passed the 24th Sept. 1789, (1st vol. Laws of -the US p. 63 ) which declares " That a final judgment or decree in any suit, in the highest court of law or equ.ty of a state, in which a decision in the suit could be had, where is drawn in question...

...act of Congress, passed the 24th Sept. 1789, (1st vol. Laws of the US p. 63.) vhich declares " That a final judgment or decree in any suit, in the highest court of law or equity of a state, in which a decision in the suit could be had, where is drawn in question...

...questions in the order in which they have been presented by the court. 1. The 25th section provides, " that a final judgment or decree in any suit in the highest court of law or equity of a state in which a decision in the suit could be had, where is drawn in question the...

...but shall send a special mandate to the circuit court, to award execution thereupon. 23. SEc. xxv. A final judgment or decree in any suit, in the highest court of law or equity of a state in which a decision in (ACT of September 24th, 1789.) the suit could be had,...