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ADAMS v. BURKE (1873)

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ADAMS v. BURKE
Term: 1873
Important Dates
Decided: December 8, 1873
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-3
Majority
Nathan Clifford • David Davis • Stephen Johnson Field • Ward Hunt • Samuel Freeman Miller
Dissenting
Joseph Bradley • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne

ADAMS v. BURKE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 8, 1873.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Massachusetts U.S. Circuit for the District of Massachusetts.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1870s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Chase Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: patent
  • Petitioner: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Defendant
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 84 U.S. 453
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Salmon Portland Chase
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Samuel Freeman Miller

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as liberal.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024
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