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HUMPHREY v. BAKER (1881)

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HUMPHREY v. BAKER
Term: 1880
Important Dates
Decided: March 21, 1881
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
6-0
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • John Marshall Harlan • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods

HUMPHREY v. BAKER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 21, 1881.

In a 6-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Michigan U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Michigan.

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: Criminal Procedure - Contempt of court or congress
  • Petitioner: Arrested person, or pretrial detainee
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 103 U.S. 736
  • 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 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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