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ESTEY & OTHERS v. BURDETT (1884)

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ESTEY & OTHERS v. BURDETT
Term: 1883
Important Dates
Argued: November 21, 1883
Decided: January 7, 1884
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods

ESTEY & OTHERS v. BURDETT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 7, 1884. The case was argued before the court on November 21, 1883.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Vermont U.S. Circuit for the District of Vermont.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, 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 - Patents and copyrights: patent
  • Petitioner: Manufacturer
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 109 U.S. 633
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Samuel Blatchford

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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