AGRICULTURAL COMPANY v. PIERCE COUNTY (1867)

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AGRICULTURAL COMPANY v. PIERCE COUNTY
Term: 1867
Important Dates
Decided: December 23, 1867
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Salmon Portland Chase • Nathan Clifford • David Davis • Stephen Johnson Field • Robert Cooper Grier • Samuel Freeman Miller • Samuel Nelson • Noah Haynes Swayne

AGRICULTURAL COMPANY v. PIERCE COUNTY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 23, 1867.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Washington Territorial Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1860s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Chase Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - Supreme Court's certiorari, writ of error, or appeals jurisdiction
  • Petitioner: Business, corporation
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
  • Respondent state: Washington
  • Citation: 73 U.S. 246
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • Who was the chief justice: Salmon Portland Chase
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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 conservative.

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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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