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BARTON v. BARBOUR (1881)

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BARTON v. BARBOUR
Term: 1881
Important Dates
Argued: October 25, 1881
Decided: November 14, 1881
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-1
Majority
Joseph Bradley • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods
Dissenting
Samuel Freeman Miller

BARTON v. BARBOUR is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 14, 1881. The case was argued before the court on October 25, 1881.

In a 5-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

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 - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
  • Petitioner: Physically injured person, including wrongful death, who is not an employee
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Railroad
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 104 U.S. 126
  • 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: William Burnham Woods

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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