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EDWARD SARCHET AND OTHERS, APPELLANTS v. THE UNITED STATES (1838)

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EDWARD SARCHET AND OTHERS, APPELLANTS v. THE UNITED STATES
Term: 1838
Important Dates
Decided: March 1, 1838
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Henry Baldwin • Philip Pendelton Barbour • John Catron • John McKinley • John McLean • Joseph Story • Roger Brooke Taney • Smith Thompson • James Moore Wayne

EDWARD SARCHET AND OTHERS, APPELLANTS v. THE UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 1, 1838.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the New York Southern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1830s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taney Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: jurisdiction or authority of federal courts of appeals
  • Petitioner: Debtor
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 37 U.S. 143
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Roger Brooke Taney
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Roger Brooke Taney

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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