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COUNTY OF WARREN v. MARCY (1878)

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COUNTY OF WARREN v. MARCY
Term: 1877
Important Dates
Argued: April 10, 1878
Decided: May 6, 1878
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-3
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Nathan Clifford • Ward Hunt • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne • Morrison Waite
Dissenting
Stephen Johnson Field • John Marshall Harlan • Samuel Freeman Miller

COUNTY OF WARREN v. MARCY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 6, 1878. The case was argued before the court on April 10, 1878.

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

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 - Commercial transactions
  • Petitioner: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
  • Petitioner state: Illinois
  • Respondent type: Stockholder, shareholder, or bondholder
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 97 U.S. 96
  • 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: 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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