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DANT v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (1876)

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DANT v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Term: 1875
Important Dates
Decided: March 20, 1876
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Majority
Nathan Clifford • David Davis • Ward Hunt • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite
Dissenting
Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne

DANT v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 20, 1876.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

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: Economic Activity - Liability, governmental: tort or contract actions by or against government or governmental officials other than defense of criminal actions brought under a civil rights action.
  • Petitioner: Physically injured person, including wrongful death, who is not an employee
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: District of Columbia
  • Citation: 91 U.S. 557
  • 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: Ward Hunt

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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