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DOWELL v. APPLEGATE (1894)

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DOWELL v. APPLEGATE
Term: 1893
Important Dates
Argued: January 18, 1894
Decided: March 5, 1894
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-1
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Howell Edmunds Jackson • George Shiras
Dissenting
Stephen Johnson Field

DOWELL v. APPLEGATE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 5, 1894. The case was argued before the court on January 18, 1894.

In a 7-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Oregon State Trial 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 - judicial administration: review of non-final order
  • Petitioner: Buyer, purchaser
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 152 U.S. 327
  • 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: Melville Weston Fuller
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: John Marshall Harlan

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.

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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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