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HILLS et al. VERSUS ROSS (1796)

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HILLS et al. VERSUS ROSS
Term: 1796
Important Dates
Argued: August 2, 1796
Decided: August 12, 1796
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-0
Majority
Samuel Chase • William Cushing • Oliver Ellsworth • James Iredell • William Paterson • James Wilson

HILLS et al. VERSUS ROSS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on August 12, 1796. The case was argued before the court on August 2, 1796.

In a 6-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Georgia U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1790s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Ellsworth Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Sufficiency of evidence: typically in the context of a jury's determination of compensation for injury or death
  • Petitioner: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 3 U.S. 331
  • 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: Oliver Ellsworth
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Oliver Ellsworth

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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