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GRAME v. MUTUAL ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA (1881)

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GRAME v. MUTUAL ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA
Term: 1881
Important Dates
Decided: December 12, 1881
Outcome
No disposition
Vote
8-0
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • John Marshall Harlan • Ward Hunt • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods

GRAME v. MUTUAL ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 12, 1881.

The U.S. Supreme Court did not issue a ruling.

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: Judicial Power - Supreme Court's certiorari, writ of error, or appeals jurisdiction
  • Petitioner: Unidentifiable
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Unidentifiable
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 154 U.S. 676
  • 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: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Morrison Waite

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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