Help us improve in just 2 minutes—share your thoughts in our reader survey.

JENKINS v. INTERNATIONAL BANK (1883)

From Ballotpedia
Jump to: navigation, search

Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
JENKINS v. INTERNATIONAL BANK
Term: 1882
Important Dates
Decided: January 29, 1883
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods

JENKINS v. INTERNATIONAL BANK is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 29, 1883.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Indiana U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Indiana.

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.

[1]

About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Bankruptcy (except in the context of priority of federal fiscal claims)
  • Petitioner: Bankrupt person or business, or business in reorganization
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Bank, savings and loan, credit union, investment company
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 106 U.S. 571
  • 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: Samuel Freeman Miller

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.

See also

External links

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
Retrieved from "https://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=JENKINS_v._INTERNATIONAL_BANK_(1883)&oldid=9495725"