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HILTON v. GUYOT. (1895)

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HILTON v. GUYOT.
Term: 1894
Important Dates
Argued: January 19, 1894
Decided: June 3, 1895
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
5-4
Majority
Henry Billings BrownStephen Johnson FieldHorace GrayGeorge ShirasEdward Douglass White
Dissenting
David Josiah BrewerMelville Weston FullerJohn Marshall HarlanHowell Edmunds Jackson

HILTON v. GUYOT. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 3, 1895. The case was argued before the court on January 19, 1894.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the New York U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of New York.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: Act of State doctrine
  • Petitioner: Debtor
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: foreign (non-American) nongovernmental entity
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 159 U.S. 113
  • 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: Melville Weston Fuller
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Horace Gray

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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