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BROWN v. BAXTER (1892)

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BROWN v. BAXTER
Term: 1892
Important Dates
Decided: December 19, 1892
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
7-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • George Shiras

BROWN v. BAXTER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 19, 1892.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Kentucky State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: review of non-final order
  • Petitioner: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Debtor
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 146 U.S. 619
  • 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: Melville Weston Fuller
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Melville Weston Fuller

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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