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JAMES TODD, APPELLANT, v. OTIS DANIELL, DEFENDANT (1843)

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JAMES TODD, APPELLANT, v. OTIS DANIELL, DEFENDANT
Term: 1843
Important Dates
Argued: March 5, 1842
Decided: March 10, 1843
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-0
Majority
Henry Baldwin • John Catron • Peter Vivian Daniel • John McLean • Roger Brooke Taney • James Moore Wayne

JAMES TODD, APPELLANT, v. OTIS DANIELL, DEFENDANT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 10, 1843. The case was argued before the court on March 5, 1842.

In a 6-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1840s, 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 - Assessment of costs or damages: as part of a court order
  • Petitioner: Unidentifiable
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Unidentifiable
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 42 U.S. 289
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Roger Brooke Taney
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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 unspecifiable.

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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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