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GRANT v. PHOENIX LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY (January 31, 1887)

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GRANT v. PHOENIX LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
Term: 1886
Important Dates
Decided: January 31, 1887
Outcome
No disposition
Vote
8-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite

GRANT v. PHOENIX LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 31, 1887.

The U.S. Supreme Court did not issue a ruling. The case originated from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

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 - Assessment of costs or damages: as part of a court order
  • Petitioner: Debtor
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Insurance company, or surety
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 120 U.S. 271
  • 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: 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 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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