GORDON v. UNITED STATES (1865)

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GORDON v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1864
Important Dates
Argued: January 3, 1865
Decided: March 10, 1865
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
6-2
Majority
Nathan Clifford • Robert Cooper Grier • Samuel Nelson • Noah Haynes Swayne • Roger Brooke Taney • James Moore Wayne
Dissenting
Stephen Johnson Field • Samuel Freeman Miller

GORDON v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 10, 1865. The case was argued before the court on January 3, 1865.

In a 6-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Claims, Court of Federal Claims.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1860s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Chase Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: jurisdiction or authority of the Court of Claims
  • Petitioner: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 69 U.S. 561
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Salmon Portland Chase
  • 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 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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