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CASEY v. NATIONAL BANK (1878)

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CASEY v. NATIONAL BANK
Term: 1877
Important Dates
Argued: January 25, 1878
Decided: April 15, 1878
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Nathan Clifford • Ward Hunt • Samuel Freeman Miller • William Strong • Morrison Waite
Dissenting
Stephen Johnson Field • John Marshall Harlan • Noah Haynes Swayne

CASEY v. NATIONAL BANK is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 15, 1878. The case was argued before the court on January 25, 1878.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Louisiana U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Louisiana.

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: Private Action - Personal property
  • Petitioner: Bankrupt person or business, or business in reorganization
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Bank, savings and loan, credit union, investment company
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 96 U.S. 492
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Joseph Bradley

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 unspecifiable.

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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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