Everything you need to know about ranked-choice voting in one spot. Click to learn more!

CROUDSON AND OTHERS v. LEONARD (1808)

From Ballotpedia
Jump to: navigation, search

Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
CROUDSON AND OTHERS v. LEONARD
Term: 1807
Important Dates
Decided: March 15, 1808
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
4-2
Majority
William Cushing • William Johnson Jr. • John Marshall • Bushrod Washington
Dissenting
Samuel Chase • Henry Brockholst Livingston

CROUDSON AND OTHERS v. LEONARD is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 15, 1808.

In a 4-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1800s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Marshall Court, click here.

[1]

About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
  • Petitioner: Insurance company, or surety
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Shipper, including importer and exporter
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 8 U.S. 434
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
  • What type of decision was made: Seriatim
  • Who was the chief justice: John Marshall
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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 liberal.

See also

External links

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
Retrieved from "https://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=CROUDSON_AND_OTHERS_v._LEONARD_(1808)&oldid=9488786"