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FREDERIC D. CONRAD, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR v. DAVID GRIFFEY (1854)

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FREDERIC D. CONRAD, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR v. DAVID GRIFFEY
Term: 1853
Important Dates
Argued: February 17, 1854
Decided: February 27, 1854
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
John Archibald Campbell • John Catron • Benjamin Robbins Curtis • Peter Vivian Daniel • Robert Cooper Grier • John McLean • Samuel Nelson • Roger Brooke Taney • James Moore Wayne

FREDERIC D. CONRAD, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR v. DAVID GRIFFEY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 27, 1854. The case was argued before the court on February 17, 1854.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Louisiana U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Louisiana.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1850s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taney Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Evidence
  • Petitioner: Buyer, purchaser
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Manufacturer
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 57 U.S. 38
  • 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: Roger Brooke Taney
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: John McLean

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 unspecifiable.

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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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