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COMMONWEALTH v. BOUTWELL (1872)

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COMMONWEALTH v. BOUTWELL
Term: 1871
Important Dates
Argued: March 8, 1872
Decided: March 25, 1872
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Salmon Portland Chase • Nathan Clifford • David Davis • Stephen Johnson Field • Samuel Freeman Miller • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne

COMMONWEALTH v. BOUTWELL is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 25, 1872. The case was argued before the court on March 8, 1872.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1870s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Chase Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Miscellaneous - executive authority vis-a-vis congress or the states
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Kentucky
  • Respondent type: Department or Secretary of the Treasury
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 80 U.S. 526
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Mandamus
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Salmon Portland Chase
  • 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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