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CAMPBELL & ANOTHER v. HOLT (1885)

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CAMPBELL & ANOTHER v. HOLT
Term: 1885
Important Dates
Decided: December 7, 1885
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-2
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods
Dissenting
Joseph Bradley • John Marshall Harlan

CAMPBELL & ANOTHER v. HOLT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 7, 1885.

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

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: Judicial Power - judicial administration: untimely filing
  • Petitioner: State or local governmental taxpayer, or executor of the estate of
  • Petitioner state: Texas
  • Respondent type: Heir, or beneficiary, or person so claiming to be
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 115 U.S. 620
  • 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 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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