The judges, after some advisement, delivered their opinions seriatim. Taxa evolving seriatim cannot be dealt with by analyzing shared ancestry with cladistic methods. With some exceptions, the Ellsworth Court was the last Supreme Court to use seriatim opinions. During his tenure, he restored the act of delivering seriatim opinions on the court. Duvall authored a brief seriatim opinion in "Beatty v. Maryland" (1812). This is because passing seriatim is a virtue of time. "Abergavenney" apparently had several tenders "seriatim".