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JEREMIAH VAN RENSSELAER, APPELLANT, v. JOHN WATTS'S EXECUTORS (1849)

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JEREMIAH VAN RENSSELAER, APPELLANT, v. JOHN WATTS'S EXECUTORS
Term: 1849
Important Dates
Decided: March 12, 1849
Outcome
No disposition
Vote
9-0
Majority
John Catron • Peter Vivian Daniel • Robert Cooper Grier • John McKinley • John McLean • Samuel Nelson • Roger Brooke Taney • James Moore Wayne • Levi Woodbury

JEREMIAH VAN RENSSELAER, APPELLANT, v. JOHN WATTS'S EXECUTORS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 12, 1849.

The U.S. Supreme Court did not issue a ruling.

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: Private Action - Civil procedure
  • Petitioner: Unidentifiable
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Unidentifiable
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 48 U.S. 784
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • 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: Roger Brooke Taney

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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