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CATES v. ALLEN (1893)

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CATES v. ALLEN
Term: 1892
Important Dates
Argued: March 22, 1893
Decided: May 10, 1893
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
6-2
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • David Josiah Brewer • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • George Shiras
Dissenting
Henry Billings Brown • Howell Edmunds Jackson

CATES v. ALLEN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 10, 1893. The case was argued before the court on March 22, 1893.

In a 6-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Mississippi Northern U.S. District 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 - Standing to sue: legal injury
  • Petitioner: Debtor
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Creditor, including institution appearing as such; e.g., a finance company
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 149 U.S. 451
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • 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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