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ATHERTON v. FOWLER (1878)

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ATHERTON v. FOWLER
Term: 1877
Important Dates
Argued: January 10, 1878
Decided: March 25, 1878
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-2
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • John Marshall Harlan • Ward Hunt • Samuel Freeman Miller • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne
Dissenting
Nathan Clifford • Morrison Waite

ATHERTON v. FOWLER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 25, 1878. The case was argued before the court on January 10, 1878.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1870s, 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 - state and territorial land claims
  • Petitioner: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Defendant
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 96 U.S. 513
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
  • 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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