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ISAAC HARTSHORN, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. HORACE H. DAY (1856)

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ISAAC HARTSHORN, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. HORACE H. DAY
Term: 1855
Important Dates
Decided: January 2, 1856
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
John Archibald Campbell • John Catron • Benjamin Robbins Curtis • Peter Vivian Daniel • Robert Cooper Grier • John McLean • Samuel Nelson • Roger Brooke Taney • James Moore Wayne

ISAAC HARTSHORN, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. HORACE H. DAY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 2, 1856.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Rhode Island U.S. Circuit for the District of Rhode Island.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1850s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taney Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - no merits: miscellaneous
  • Petitioner: Unidentifiable
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Unidentifiable
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 59 U.S. 28
  • 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: Roger Brooke Taney
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: John McLean

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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