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BIGELOW v. BERKSHIRE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY (1876)

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BIGELOW v. BERKSHIRE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
Term: 1876
Important Dates
Argued: November 29, 1876
Decided: December 11, 1876
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Nathan Clifford • David Davis • Stephen Johnson Field • Ward Hunt • Samuel Freeman Miller • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne • Morrison Waite

BIGELOW v. BERKSHIRE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 11, 1876. The case was argued before the court on November 29, 1876.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Illinois U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Illinois.

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 - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
  • Petitioner: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Insurance company, or surety
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 93 U.S. 284
  • 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: David Davis

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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