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INSURANCE COMPANY v. NORTON (1878)

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INSURANCE COMPANY v. NORTON
Term: 1877
Important Dates
Decided: February 18, 1878
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-3
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Nathan Clifford • John Marshall Harlan • Ward Hunt • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite
Dissenting
Stephen Johnson Field • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne

INSURANCE COMPANY v. NORTON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 18, 1878.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Illinois U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Illinois.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1870s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
  • Petitioner: Insurance company, or surety
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Heir, or beneficiary, or person so claiming to be
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 96 U.S. 234
  • 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: Joseph Bradley

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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