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ALABAMA v. BURR & OTHERS (1885)

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ALABAMA v. BURR & OTHERS
Term: 1885
Important Dates
Argued: October 30, 1885
Decided: November 16, 1885
Vote
9-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods

ALABAMA v. BURR & OTHERS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 16, 1885. The case was argued before the court on October 30, 1885.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a 9-0 ruling.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Sufficiency of evidence: typically in the context of a jury's determination of compensation for injury or death
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Alabama
  • Respondent type: Railroad
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 115 U.S. 413
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Morrison Waite

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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